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	“My rather died in Texaa. That left my mother a widow. 8h. spent about two weeks at the old home place in Louisiana. She pulled up then and went to Natchez to my father‘ s people • She made two crops with my young master. His name was Otie Railey. Help her? Well, I was COnhin‘. I had one brother and one sister,

	“In ‘68 she worked with a colored man on the shares,

	WI started to school in ‘6?. A colored man come in there and

established a private school• I went in ‚ 6? ‚ ‚ 68 ‚ and ‚ 69 and then I

didn‘t ~o any more till ?7]~ and “12. 1 got along pretty well in it. I

know mine fran the other ~e1lo~s. I can write and any c~wnon businesa I

can take care of.

	“We had two or three men r~m off and joined the Yankeea. One got drouned tore he got there and the other two cone back after treedc*n.

	“My mother worked for wages after freedom. She got three bales of cotton for her services and mine and she boarded herself.

	“In ‚ ?4 she rented. I still stayed with her. She lived with me all her hf. and died with ~

	“I come over to Arkansas the twenty.i.third day of December in 1916, Worked for Long-Bell Lumber Company till they went down. Then I just jobbed around. I can still work a little but not like I used to.

	RI used to vote Republican when I was interested in politics but I have no intere8t in lt now,

	“The younger generation is faster now than they was in my tix~. They was more constrict ions on the young people • Then I was young I had a certain hour to come in at night. Zight o‘clock was my hour...not later than that • I think the fault ~ist be in the times b~t it the parent a started in ti1~ they could control th~.