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	Interviewer	Misalrene Robertson
	Person interviewed	~ttie~1tz~C1arendoxi~Ar1canaas
	Age~_~1~~79


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	*1 was born at Duncan, Arkansas. Mother died when I was a baby. Old slavery black ‘MOXnTny‘ raised me. I called her ‘Mezrnny‘. Z~ father was born in the State of Mississippi. He got loose there at ‘rnancipation. His master Tack Oates ~ot killed in battle. They bru.ng him home and buried him in the garden. Down close to ]Auiean on the place ~ I played in the yard wid Mr11 3~ack Oates, J‘r. when we was little fellars. Father‘s master in Tennessee was Bill Tyler. My uncle went back to Tennesßee to them. His name ~cas Tyler Cates. Mr. Jack Oates, Sr~ used to pat me and call me his little nigger. We thought the world and all of our white roiks. We sure did. Soins or ? em ‚ round ‚ bout Helena they say now. Mr • ~Tack ‚ ~rr . ‚ he had two boys and he was a widower.

	“My own dear mother was Jane. My father called hisseif Bill Tyler.

. My stepmother was Liddy. The woman vihat rai sed me was ‘MaDiny‘ all ‘I ever

knowed. ~it her name was I.iiokadoo.

	“Mr. Tyler got ~illed, Pa had to stay on take care ot hi8 mistress, He got sold, Then she died. Then mother died. ~Tack Oates went to my father and bru.n€ him to Mississippi, then to arkansas.

	“Master ~Tack Tyler hid out. The Yankees come at night and caught him there and shot him. His wife lived about two more years, She grieved about him, They took everything and searched the house. My pa was hid under the house, They rumbled down in the cellar and pretty nigh seen him once,