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J~ust about duak dark, he got up and taken a big old hor8e pistol end shot out of it, and when he tired the last shot out of it, a white man said~ tBring ~that gun here.‘ Believe me he cut a road through that field right

now0

	~They stayed ‘round for a little while and tried to bully hie people, But the old lady stood up to them, so they finally carried her and her children in the house and told her to tell him to come on back they wouldn‘t hurt him. ~And they didn‘t bother him no mOre.

	“My motherts master told my mother that she was free. He called aU the slaves in and told them they were free as he was. I don‘t think he give them anything when they were treed, He was a kind a poor fellow. Didn‘t have but six or seven slaves. He offered to let them stayand make crops, My father had a better job than that. Did you ever know Bishop Lane out in Tennessee? My father and he were ordained at the sa~ time in the sa~

C • M. E • Church. Then he moved to Kentucky and joined the A. M. E • Church.

My father died in 1875 and my mother in 1906.

	WI have been married forty-~seven years. I married on the twenty~sixth day of December in 1889. I heard my mother and father say that they married In slavery time and they just jumped over a broom. I don‘t belong to no church. I am off on a pension. I got a good job dom‘ nothing. My pension is paid by the Railroad.

	“I put up forty—tour yeara as a brakeman and five years on ditching trains before I went to braking. My old road master put ~ on the braking.

A fellow got his tingers cut off and they turned his keys over to me and put

me to braking and I went there and stayed,

~	RI have two children. Both of them are livthg...-a girl and a boy.

I have had a big bunch of young people ‚ round ~ ever since I married.