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And •She was a wc~an with flr• childrn. b~t she iras a real wife to hie, ~ Hirn and her would fight, too. ~i. was j.aloua of him. Wouldn‘t b. none of that with ~. Honey, when you hit once, I‘m gone, Ain‘t no bsatin‘ on me nd

then 81e.pin‘ in ths saie bed with you. ~it thy fit and then th.y livsd

togsth.r right on. No aatter what happ.nsd, hi. cl•an elothe8 w•rs ready

whsi~aTer he got ready to go out of the houes--e~n if it was just to go to work. Ria rneele were ready whenever he got ready to eat • They w•re happy together till ehe di.d.

	~RLt when she died, h. killed hiessif courtin‘ • Be was a young preacher. H. died of pneurnonia. He waa visiting his daughter end got

•zpossd to the weather and didn‘ t take care of hieaslt.

	RIght after the tar, I was hired a. a ha1f-a~hend. Mtr that I got 1ar~r and was hired as a whole hand, and th. old.at girl. I worked on on. taie and thsn another for ysare. I married th• tirat‘tim ihen I was fiftasu years old. That was airnoet right after slave tim. Pour couple. of u‘ vers married at the a~ t1. They lived cloas to ~. I didn‘t want my husband to git in the bed with whn I married the first tim. I didn‘t have no aenas• I was a Christian girl.

	•Prenk 8~ipson was his ns. It rainsd ths day vs ~rrisd. I got my feet wt. My husband brought hcae end then he turned ‘round and ~nt back to where ths wedding was. They had a r.csption, eM th.y dancd end had a good ti. Sampson could danas, too, but I didn‘t. A littl. bsfors day, h• cc~e back end said to =4 was layin‘ in the middli of th• b.d— ‘Git over•‘ I called to mother and told her he wantsd to git in th bed with

—• ~1e said, ‘W•U, let him git in. He‘s yo‘r husband now.‘

	~Irank Sampson and lived togsthsr about tienty years bstors h got kill.d, and thin I aarri.d Andrew Jackson. He had children end grandchildren.