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	Interviewer	SamuelS.Tafior	• . j

Person	interviewed  f~~1 ~j ‚î. i~• Gilles%e
1112 harkE Sti‘eet ‚ Little Rocik7 Arkiùsas
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	“I was born near Galveston, in Texas, January 19, 1863, so they tell me. I been in this town and been living right here at 1112 Park Street for fifty-~three years ‘and am‘ t never had no trouble with anybody.

	“My grandparents were i‘ e. My grandma was an Indian woman, She was stolen oft the reservation..-.~her and her daughter• The daughter was about twelve years old and big enough to wait table . ~ Both of them were full blooded Cherokee Indiana • My ~audma1married a slave ‚ änd when she growed up, my mother married a slave ; but my mother‘ a parents were both
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Indians ‚ and one of my father‘ s paren14‘ was white ‚ so ~ you see about three

fourths otme is something else. My grandmother‘s name before her tiret

marriage was Courtney and m~ mother ‚ s first name was Parthenia.

	“When they were stolen, they were made slaves. Nick Toliver ~bought ‘em. He was their first master, far as I heard ‘em say. After old man Nick Toliver died, Tom Brewer bought ray mother. Toliver and Brewer were the only two masters she had. .

“After freedom came, my ~randxna took back her own name, Gillespie.

Grandma ‚ s second husband was named Berry Green. She was tree and in the Indian reservation when she married Gillespie, but she was a slave when she married Berry Green,

	RAfter my mother cai~ to be of age, she married a man na~d Willis.

He was a slave. That is why I am like I am new. If my grandma had stayed