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N~ OF 1~RKER-‘.‘3aiirne1 S. Taylor	.

ADDRESS—Litt le Bock, &rkariaaa ~

DATE--December, 1938

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NAME AND ADDRESS OF INFORMßTT-‘4. H. Curry, ~Vaeh1ngton, Arkansas

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	~ “I was boni iii. 1862, September first. I got t1~t off the 3ible. ~ My father, he belongid. to a doctor and the 4octOr, la was a kind of a wait man to him. AM the doctor learnt him 1~w to read ~and write. Right after the War, he was a teacher. lie was ready to be a teacher before moat other popl, because be learnt to read. and write in slavery. mere vers so many folks that caine to see the doctor arid. wanted to leave numbers arid ~tdressee that he hai to have some one to ‘teig to that and he taught my father to read and wriie so that he could do it.

	“I was born In Tennessee ‚ in Haywood~ County. My father was bc rn in North Carolina, so ~they tell ~. He was brought to ~emiessee. He was a slave and my mother was a a lave • Ris name was Washington Curry and my mother ‚ s name was El I za Douglass before she marr led. Ber mas te r vas named John I»uglass ar4 my f~ther‘a saster was named T. A. c~irry, Tom Curry asme folks called him..

	“I don‘t know ‚~U~8t hOW many slaves ~bm Curry owned. Lszne see. Ther was my daPddj, his fou.r brothers, his five sisters. My father‘s father had ten children, and my father bad the same xwaber-~-five b078 and six girl...

Peu of tte lived for forty years . My i~ther had. ten living chi]Arn. ~en she died in 1921. Since ‘21, three girls died. My father died In 1892.