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	“We tanned, made thirty or tor~y acres of wheat, seventy-.five acres of oata, so~ rye. I pulled fodder ail day and take lt dowi~ at night while the dew would keep it in the bundle. Haul it up. We was divided out when the War was on,

	“Somebody killed Master Jim Gant. He was murdered In his own house, They never did know who done it. They had two boys at hcn~. One went vi sit ing. They knocked her and the boy senseless . • It was at night . . They was all knocked In the head0

	“will Strahorn owned x~y wife. He was tolLerable good to his Negroes. ~dmond Gant was a black preacher in slavery. He married us. He married iii in white folks‘ yard. They c~ out and looked at us marry. I had to ask my master and had to go ask fer her then0 Oar children was to be Strahorn by name. Will would own them ‘cau~se my wife belong to him. My first wife had five girls and three boys. My wife died, I left. ‘both my two last wive8. I never had no more children but them eight.

	“Freedom..-~my yoi~ng master corne riding up behind us. We was going in dragging our plougha. He told us lt was freedom. The Yankees took every-‘ thing. We went to ~irray County to get my horse. I went off the next day. The Yankees stayed in Lawrence County. The Yankees burnt Torn Œ~eenfield out. Torn and Thu had joining farms. They took everything he had. Took his darkies all but two girls, He left. Yini was good and they never went ‘bout him. ~Tini stayed at hcane, I went over there, He put me on his brother‘s place,

	WI come to Arkansas by train. I come to fackson, Tennessee, then to Forrest City, brought my f‘arnlee. My baby child is grown and married,

	“The Ku Klux never bothered n~. It was a mighty little I ever seen of
them