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	Even e!ter the colored folks got put out of public office, they atill kept my Irneband for a policeman. It waa during those days he bo~xght this home. 8ixty-~sevet years we been living right in this place I guess when did you say the war had its wInd up? It was the only house in a big forest. All my nine children was born right in this house. No ina‘ani, I never have worked since I came here. My husband always made a good living. T had all I could do caring for those nine children. When the Democrats came in power, of course all colored men were let out of office. Then my husband went back to his blacksmith trade. He was always interested in breedin€ fine horses. Kept two fine stallions; one was named ~‘udge Hill“, the other nPinohback*. Thite folke from Kentucky, even, used to come here to b~iy his colts. Race people in Texas took our colts as fast as they got born. Only recently we heard that stock from our stable was among the best in Texas.

	The Li Kiuxera never bothered us in the least. I think they worked mostly out in. the country. We used to hear terrible tales of how they whipped and killed both white and black, for no reason at all. ~verybody was afraid of them and scared to go out after dark. They were a strong organization, and secret. ~ I‘ 11 tell you ‚ lady ‚ if the rough element from the north had stayed out of the south the trouble of reconstruction would not happened. Yea ma‘am, that‘s right. You see, after great disasters like-fires end earthquakes and such, always reckless criminal class people ecais in its wake to rob and pillage. It was like that in the war days. It was that bad element of the north what made the trouble.