I don‘t but anyhow, they told hirn he could have.all the ground he could clear and work for five years and it wouldii‘t cost him nothing. He built a log house and put in a orchard. Next year he had a big garden and sold vegables. Lord, miss, thera white ladies wouldn‘t buy from nobody but pappy. They‘d wait till he got there with his fresh beans and roasting ears. When he got more land broke out, he raised cotton and corn and made it right good. His name was Harry ~illiams. He was a stern man, and honest. He was named for his old master. When my brothers got ~rowed they learned shoemakers trade and had. right good business in Little Rock, ~t when pappy died, them boys give up that good business and tuck a fan~i the old Lawson place ~ so to raake a home for raeir~ay and the little chilluns.

	I married Freeman. Onliest husban ever I had. He died last swirner. He ;~i&s a 3lave too. ~ used to talk over thera days before we inst. The 1. E. K. never bothered us. They was gathered together to bother niggers and whites what i~de trouble. If you tended to your own business, they‘s let you alone.

	No rna‘am, I never voted. My husband did. Yes ma‘am, I can remember when they ;~&s colored men voted into office. ~Tustice of Peace, county clerks, and, er -~ er -~ that fellow that comes running fast when somebody ~e~s killed. what you call him? Coroner? Sure, that‘s him. I know that, ‘cause I seen them a~settinj~ in their offices.

	~e raised our fam‘ly on a plantation. That‘s the bestest place for colored chilluns. Yes zia‘ar~i. My five boys stayed ‘~iith uc till they was gL,owI1. They heerd about the ilailroad shops and was bound theys coing
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