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Interviewer

Person interviewed
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802 Schiller Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
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	“I couldn‘t tell you when I was born. I was born a good while berore freedom, I was a boy about ten years old in the time of the Civil War. That would make me about eighty—five or six years old.

	“My father‘s nwne was Gy Armstrong. My mother‘s name was Gracie Arm.strong. I don‘ t know the names of my grandparents. They was gone when I got here. My sister died right there in the corner of the next room.


House

	“I used to live in an old log Th~ floors were these here planks. was in Georgia, in Houston County, him--know who dug his grave,

	“They had beds nailed up to the side ot the house. People had a terrible time you know. White folks had it all. When I eo~ along they had it and they had it ever since I been here • You didne t have no chance like folks have nowadays. 3ust made benches and stools to sit on. Made tables out o~ planks. I never saw any cupboards and things like that. Them things wasn‘t thought about then. The house was like a stable then. Bat them log houses was better than these ‘cause the wind couldn‘t get through them.
and Furniture

house • Take dirt and dob the cracks. Vie had ti~ windows and one door. That on old Dempsey Brown ‘~ pl. I know