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	Interviewer	)L188 Irene Robertaon

	Person interviewed   ~nnett~ista ByMar1~ne~ ~jc~sa8~

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	~I was born. in Washington County, Missouri. I‘m eightyi..three Y6~8 old. Mother‘8 owner was William Byrd. He got killed in a dispute over a horse. A horse trader shot him. His nanm was Cal Dc5ny. Father‘s owner was Byrd too. Mother was Miss Harriett Byrd‘s cook. Yes, I knowed her very well. I was nine years old when I was stole.

	“Me and my older brother wa~ both stole. His name was Hugh Byrd. We was just out. It was in September. A gang out stealing horses stole U8• It was when Price made his last raid to Missouri. It was s~e of the soldiers frcm his gang. We was playing about. They overtook us and let us ride, then they wouldn‘t let us git off. They would shot us if we had. In a few days we was so tar off. We cried and worried a heap.

	“It was e1~hteen years before I see my mother. The old snag I was riding give out and they was leading so they changed me.. I cried two or three days. They didn‘ t pay my crying no ‚ tentlon. They had a string of nigger men and boys ‚ no women ‚ far as from me ‚ cross to that bank. I judge it is three hundred yards over there.

	“After the battle of Big Blue River my man got killed and another man had charge of me and soelebody else went off with my brother. I never seen him. That battle was awful, awful, awfull Well, I certainly was scared to death. They never got out of Missouri with my brother. In 1872 he went to St. Louis to my mother. She was cooking there. My father went