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	Interviewer	~	 Miss Irene Robertaon
	Person Interviewed		LiUieBaeeu8~d1aon~ Arkansas






	“I‘ll tell you what I heard. I was too little to reniember the Civil War. M~m~~es owner was ~ Dillard. She called him ‘Ma8ter‘ Dillard. Papa‘8 owner W88 ______ ~nith. He called him ‘Master‘ ~nith. Mama waa named Ami and papa Arthur ~nith. I was born at West Point ‚ ~Li 88 1 ssippi. I heard ma ~ay she was 8olcI. She said Pattick sold her. She had to leave her two children Cherry and Aim. Mama wae a field hand. So was grandma yet she worked in the house soue she 8aid. After freedom cherry and Ann come to mama. She was going to be sold agin but was freed before sold,

	“Mama didn‘t live only till I was about three years old, so I don‘t )~now enough to tell you about her. Grandma raised us. She was sold twice. She said she run out of the house to pick up a star when the stars tell.

They showered down and disappeared.

	“The Yankees camped close to where they lived, close to West Point, Mississippi, but in the country close to an arte8iafl well. The well was on their place. The Yankees stole grandma and kept her at their tent. They meant to take her on to wait on them and use but when they started to move old. master spicioned they had her hid down there. He watched out and seen her when they was going to load her up. He went and got the head man to make them

cive her up. She was so glad to come home. Glad to see him cause she wanted to see him. They watched her so close she was afraid they would shoot her leaving. She lived to be 101 years old. She raised me,