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	ni member when they had the battle In Pine Bluff. We was bout thx‘e. miles froiii hare when they tit‘up here. I member all of lt.

	“They started to send us to Texas and we got as far as the ravine when they heard the Yankees wasn‘t commt 80 ~6 wexit back hcnie.

	I, ~ stayed round the house with the white folks and didn ‚ t kxiow what nothin‘ was till after surrender. We stayed with Dr. Jenkins for a week or two after surrender, then a man come and took my mother down in the country. I don‘t know what she was paid —~ she never did tell us her busifleas.

	“I was marna‘ a onliest girl and she worked me day and night. Hoed and picked cotton and sewed at night. Mama learned me to knit and I used to crochet a lot. She sure learned me to work and I ain‘t sorry.

	“I worked in the field till I co~ out to marry a rallroa& man. I never went to school but two or three months in my life directly after freedo~i. My husband was a good scholar and he learned n~ how to read and write. I learned my daughter how to read and write so when she started to school they didn‘t have to put her in the chart class. When she was six years old she could put down a figger as quick as you can.

	“Been married four times and they‘s all dead now. Ain‘t got nobody but myself • ir it wasn‘ t for the white folks don ‚ t know what ‘ d do.

	“I used to cook for Dr. Higginbotham when she had company. She couldn ‚ t do without old Nely. One time she sent for xùe to cook some hens. I soaked em in soda water bout an hour and tried em and you couldn‘t tell em from triera.

	~I‘m weak in my limbs now but I believe In atirrin‘. Welfare helps me but I quilts for people. Yes‘m, I stirs ~— it I didn‘t I just couldn‘t stead ft.