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Marr lage

	“I wa$ married YU~1y 12, 1889. Next year I will have been married fifty years. My wife‘8 name was Elizabeth Owene. She was born in Batesvllle, Mississippi, I me‘t her at Brinkley when she was visiting her aunt. We married in Brinkley. Very few people in thi8 city have lived together longer than we have. J~iily 12, 1938, will make forty~-nine years. By Yuly 1939, we will have reached our fiftieth anniversary.



~1	Patrollers, J!ayhawker8, Ku Klux, and Ku Klux Klan

	“Pateroles, jaybawkers, and the Ku Klux came before the war. The Ku

	:iaux in slavery times were men who would catch Negroes out and. keep them if ~ . they did not collect from their masters. The pateroles would catch.Negroea .‚~ out and return them 1f they did not have a pass. They whipped them ~øme~

tiraes if.they did not have a pass. The jayhawker8 were highway men or robbers who stole slaves among other thing8. At least, that is the way the people regarded them. The jayhawkers stole and pillaged, while the Ku Klux stole those Negroes they caught out. The word ‘Klan‘ was never included in their name,

	“The Ku Klux Klan was an organization which arose after the Civil War. it was composed of men who believed in white supremacy and who regulated the morals of the neighborhood, They were not only after sews and. Negroee, but they were sworn to protect the better class of peoples They took the law in their own handa.


Slave Work

	~I‘rn not so certain about the amount of work required of slavea. !~Iy mother says she picked four hund~red pounds of cotton many a day.