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	PersOn interviewed	T.W. CObtOflk, ~e~ena~ ArkanS8~	--

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	ni was born close to Indian Bay. I belong to Ed Cotton. Mother was sold from Toku Mason between Petersburg and Richmond, Virelnia. Three sisters was sold and they give grandma an.d my si ster In the trade ~ Grandnia was so old she wasn‘t mach account fer field work. Mother left a son she never seen ag‘ In. Aunt Adelinet ~ boy ec&ne too • They was ~it on a block but I can‘ t

recollect where it was. If mother had a husband she never said nothing ‚ bout

him. He muster been dead.

	“Now my papa cc~ne trcm La Grange ‚ Tennessee. Master Bowers sold him to ~d Cotton. He was sold three times. He had one scar on his shoulder. The patrollers hit him as he went over the fence down. at Indian Bay. He was a Guinea mart. He was heavy set ‚ ~ not very tall. Generally he carried the lead row in the field. He was a good worker. They had to be quiet wid him to get him to work. He would nm to the woods. He was a fast runner. He lived to be about a hundred years old. I took keer of him the last five years or his lite. Mother was 8eventy—one years old when she died. ~he was the mother ot twenty-.one children.

	*&u,e ‚ I do remember treedcm. After the Civil War ended, . Zd Cotton walked

out and told papa: ‘Rob, you. are free.‘ We worked on till 1866 and.w~ moved to J~oe Lambert ‘s place. He had a brother named Torn Lembert. Father never got no land ~ at freedom. 11e got to own 160 acres ‚ a house on it ‚ and some stock. We all worked and helped him to make it. He was a hard worker and a fast hand.