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	A€e  80	Occupation	Cotton Pick.r
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	“My father belonged to Mr. Ben Martin and my mother and me belonged to the 8laughtere. I was ~na11 then and didn‘t know what the war was about, but I ren~mber eseln‘ the Yankees and the Ku Klux.

	“Old master had about fifteen or twenty hands but Mr. Martin had a plenty ~ he had bout a hundred head.

	RI m~nber ihen the war was goin‘ on is was livin‘ in Bradley County. we was goi*~ to Texas to keep the Yankees from gattin‘ us. I m~ber Mr.

Gil Martin was just a young lad ot a boy. We got as ~ar as Union County

and I know we stopped there and stayed lone enough to make two crops and

then peace was declared so we ccmm back to Warren.

	“While the war was gol.u‘ on, I member when my mother took a note to some soldiers in Iarren and asked em to come and play for Mi se Mary. I know they stood under a syc~ore and two catawba trees and played. There was a perty big bunch of em. Us chillun was glad to hear it. I member just as well as if ‘twas yesterday.

	“I member when the Yankees oc~e and took all of Miss Mary ‚ a silver took every piece of it • And another t ime they got three or f‘our of tba colored men and made em get a horse apiece and ride away with em bareback, Yankees was all ridin‘ Iron gray homes, and lookin‘ just as mad. Oh Lord, yea, they rid right up to the ~ts. All the horses was just alike — iron gray. 21w was party horses. Them Yankees took everything Mise Mary had.
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