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Occupatlona

	“Christian work has been the banner of my life--labor work, giving messages about the Bible, teaching. Mostly they kept ins riding—-I mean with the doctors. when we were riding, the doctors didn‘t go in a mother‘s room; he 8ent the rider in. They call em nurses now and handle them indifferently. The doctor jus‘ stopped in the parlor and made his money jus‘ sitting there and we women did all the work. In 1912 ‚ I gave up my riding license. It was too rough for me in Arkansas. And then they wouldn‘t allow me anything either.

	“Now I have a poor way of making a living because they have taken away everything from me. I prays and lives by the Bible. I can‘t get nothin‘ from my husband‘s endowment. He was an old soldier in the Civil War on the Coiffederate side and I used to get ~3O a month from Pine Bluff. He was freed there. Wilson was President at the time I put in for an increase tor him ir~ the days of his sicknea~. He was down sick thirty years and only got :~3O a month. The pension was increased to 460 for about one year. He died in 1917, March 10, and was in his ninetieth year or more from what he told me. The picture shows it too.


Voting

	“Paying my taxes was the votin‘ I ever done. They never could get me to gee nor hai. ‚ There wasn‘t any use voting when you can see what‘s on the future before you. I never had many colored friends. None that voted. And very tew Indians and just a few others. And them that stood by me all the while, they‘re sleeping.