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	Penon interviewed	1.1137 ~1.~Bi~jvk1sy~ £rk&neas
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hb. 2, 1956



	“I waa born tu Hard.n~n County near Bolivar, Tennessee • My mother‘ s moster was Bryant Cox and his wife was Misa Nesly Cox. My mother was Dilly Gox. Two things I rwr~mbers tinatly that took place in my childhood: that was when my mother married George Doy]. I was raiasd by a atepfather. Miss Neely told my mother she was going to sell ~ end j~t me in her poke. She told her that more‘ n one ti~ • I recollect that.

	“My oldest brother, one older en ~‚ b~irnod to death. My mother was a field I~and. She was at work in the field. When she come to the house, the cabln.burned up and the baby burned up too. That gri•ved her mighty bad and when Misa Nee].y tell her soon as I got big nough she was goner sell me mighty near break her h.art.

	~1 “The tiret year after the aurrendaz my father, Back Rogers, l•ft my mother in her bad condit ion. She said she followed him crying end begging him not to leave her to Montg~.ry Bridge ‚ in Alab. The last she seen hini hs was on Montgomery ~

	“They just expected freedom. My mother l.tt her mistress and moved to the TJoyl place. She didn‘t gst nothing but her few clothes. I was born at the Doyl place • She worked for Itoeter Bob Doyl ‚ a young man. They shar.

cropped. We had a plenty I recken of what we raised and a littl money.