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	~	De nearest~ battle in de wah was at Vjeksbur~ Ah membu~h one day hit got so smoky an ah could heah do guns. Ah thought hit ~truz thunderin an said tuh 010 missuS dat hit ~uz gointer rain soon but oie missus say: t~h Lawdy, d~t amt thunder. Ah wish hit wuz. Latts guns and dat, dat yo sees is sr~ioke an not cloids.“ Aftuh de Nah wuZ ovah we stayed on ~id oie rz~rster. Soon aftuh de wah wuz ovah mar~ter died an rfliSSUS niahried Ed Oakley, a spare built man. Dey lives in Arcadia, Loi~isiana now. 4:~h stayed on thar till sh wuz Lout fo‘toen an ah lei‘ dore. ~uz gone bout a :~eah an ah learnt sumpin too. ~‘hen ah ~ot off ah had -buh go to work. Bout all ah 1~ad tuh do at home wuz tuh take keer uv de s ecok aftuh ah got bi?: nou~ h tuh but ah sho nuiT worked ‘_en. ~&h stayed way bot~t ~. ;!~ar don ah went back an stayed dere too till. ah was bout ~:ei~ty—one. ~th been mahried thrce tintes. Ah had five chiliun by mah Lust vïife an ~Iem is all de chillun ah evah had. One uv dem lives in town, one in Texas, one )ubach, La., one is daid an ah dont know de where-bouts uv de othuh one. ~e las‘ time ah heerd anything bout him he wuz in Hot Springs. Mali present wife‘s riai~ is Talitha. ~h has one granTchiie livin wid us. ~e bout filteen an is at school ovah dar. erost ~Je road wha :\bo se:.s 3~at house. Ch :iissy dein t~raes we been tawkin bout wuz de good

~	Je$e tiine~ are hard.