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	Person interviewed    Mrs. Cora Gillam   ~ Age~6

	1023 Arch Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
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	I have never been entirely sure of my age • I have kept it since I was married and they called me fifteen. That was in ‘66 or ‘6‘?. Anyhow, I‘m about 86, and what difference doe8 one year make, one way 01‘ another. I lived with master and mistress in Greenville, Miss..~ issippi. They didn‘t have children and kept me in the house with them all the tine. Master was always having a bad spell and take to his bed. It always made him sick to hear that freedom was coming closer. He just uln‘ t stand to hear about that • I alwayp remember the day he died. It was the fall of Vicksburg. When he took a spell, I had to stand by the bed and scratch his head tor hirn, and tan him with the other hand. He said that scratching pacified him.

	No ma‘ am, oh no indeedy, my father was not a slave • Can‘ t you tell by me that he was white? My brother and one sister were\ tree tolks because their white father claimed them. Brother was in college In Cincinnati and sister was in Oberlin college. My tather wa~ Mr. McCarroll from Ohio. He came to Mississippi to be overseer on the plantation ot the Warren family where my mother lived. My ~ran~dmother — on mother‘s side, was full blood Cherokee. She came from North Carolina. In early days my mother and her brothers and sisters were stolen from their home in North Carolina and taken to Misaisaippi and sold for slaves. You know the Indians could follow trails