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	Intervleier	-~-	S~mueiS.Pay1or
	Person Interviewed	~
817 Hickory Street, North Little Rook, Arkansas
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	“My father‘ s white to].ks were nan~d Pal Grave s. My mother was a McAdoo. Her white ~o1ks were McAdoos. Some of them are over the river now.

s a great jeweiryman now.

	RI was born in Trenton, Tennessee • My father was born ‚ round In Hum..

boldt ‚ Tennessee • My mother was born in Paris ‚ Tenne asee and moved out in

the country near Humboldt. He niet my mother out there and married her just

a little bit bef~ore the Jar. He was a slave and she was too.

	“He didn‘t go to the War; he went to the woods. He got to chasing t round. His young mistress married. She married a Graves. That was the name we was freed under. She was a Shane.

	“She educated my father. ehen she come from school, she would teach him and just carry him right on through the course that way. That was a good while before the War. Her father gave him to her when she married Graves. He was a little boy and she kept him and edt~cated him. Graves ran a fam. I don‘t know just what ray father did when he was little. He was raised up as a house boy. Very little he ever done in the field, I don‘t know what he did after he grew up and before freedom cam. After peace was declared, he taught in night school. He preached too. His first farming was done a little altar he co~ out here. I was about seven years old then. That was in the year 1873.

	“My mother‘ a full naz~ was Ade].ine MeAdoo. ~fore freedom she did houas.

work. She was a kind a pet with the white folks. She didn‘t do much farming0