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	*Jj7 ~ tIZ‘8t husband was killed in a raa.lin‘ (vr..tling) match.

It uasd to b that one man would walk up to another and .ay, ‘You ain‘t no good.‘ And the other one would eay, ‘A]]. right, le‘a ass.‘ And they would

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“My mother‘s tiret hueband mae pretty old.. Ria name was Myers. A

young iian come up to him one Sunday morning when they were ge‘ conmiod.~ itt... They got eorghum, meat, meal, and flour; lt what they got wasn‘t enough, then they would go out and steal a hog., Sometl they‘d steal it anyhow; they got tired of eatin‘ the a~e thing all the tim. Hurt would whip thsm for it. Wouldn‘t let the overeeer whip them. ihip them hisae]t. ‘Praid the overseer wouldn‘t give them enough. They never could find my grandfather‘ s meat • That waa Grandfather William ~wn. They couldn ‚ t find his meat beca~ia• he kept it hidden in a hole in the ground. It wae under the floor of the cabin.

	SOld Myers made this young man raasis with him. The young fellow

didn‘t went to rassie with him; he said Myera waa too old. Myers wasn‘t my father; he was my mother‘ a first huabend. The young man thrsw him. Myers wasn‘t satisfied with that. He wanted to rassle agtin. The young man didn‘t want to raaale again. ~zt Myers made him. And the second ti, th• young man threw him so hard that he broke his coller-boiia. My mother was in a family way at the tim. He livd about a week after that, and died b.fors ths baby was born.

	“My mother‘. escond husbend was named Fred Williams, and h. was my father. All this was in slavery ti• I em his oldest child. lis raised all hie children and all. his stepchildren too. H. end my mothsr lived together for over forty years, until shs was mors then seTenty. He was m~ich younger than eh wa.-~‘sjuet eight..n years old whsn hs aarrisd her.