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~	— — ~ — — ~ ~ ~ — — — — ———————~—~—— — ~ — ~ ~ ~ — — wGran~aa was Pheobe teat. ~ waa Zennie Weat. Maaa waa a littlo

girl ehen the CIVIl War co~ on. She told how acared her uncle waa. Eo d~1dn‘t waiit to go to war. Ihn they would be coaing if he ~ow it or ~et glinlp8e of the Yenkee soldisre, he‘d pick up my niepta. ~ie was a baby. He‘d run toi‘ a quarter ot a mile to a great big tree dom in the field way back o:t the place off the road. He never had to go to war. ~ said ehe was little litt she was scared at the sight of them clothe. they wore. Ifrm~‘ s and grendiiia‘ s owners 1i~ed at Yickebuxg a lot of the tine ~t ~ere that was

at Washington Oowity, Mississippi. They had lots of alavea.

	“Grandma was a midwife and doctored all the babies on the place. ~• said they had a big rout ih•re they was aM a old woman kept thee. Th.y et milk for breakfast and butterailk and clabber tor auppex. They always had bread. l‘or dinner they had meat boiled and one other thing like cabbage, anA the children got the pot—licajior. It was brought in a cart and poured in wooden trough.. They had gourds to dip it out with. They had gourde to drink their cool spring water with.

	~De1ylight would find the hands in the fisid at work. Granthia said they had meat and bread and coffee till the war cc~ on. They had to have a re~ilar neal to work on in the i~rning.

RGrandaa said their s~thing to eat got ~i~ity aliw in war ti~a and

kept setting elii~er and ali~r. They had plenty eorgbu~ ai]. the tim.