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Nobody would buy them. I don‘t know what they ever done with them. Plenty of them would. cut their hand off i~ they could get something to cut with to keep from being sold.

	“We stayed in that place till Wyley Lions j~yona?J come and got us in wagons. He kept U8 for Master Cupps. Mother was a house girl in Virginia.~ She was one more good cook. I started hoeing and picking cotton in Virginia for master. When I was fourteen years old I done the same in ~iss1ssippi with Wiley Lyons in Mis8issippi close to Canton. In Canton, Mississippi Wiley Lyons had the biggest finest brick house in that country. He had. two farina. In Bolivar County was the biggest. I could hear big shooting from Canton fifteen miles away. He wasn‘t mean and he didn‘t allow the overseers to be mean.

	-	“Hilliard Christmas ta neighbor] was mean to his folks. My father hired his own time. He raised several ten acre gardens and watermelons. He paid Mr. Cupp in Virginia. He cane to see our folks how they was getting
along.	~.

	“A Negro on a joining farm run off. They hunted. him with the dogs and they found him at a log. Heap his legs froze, so the white doctor had to cut them oft. He wa~ on Solomon‘s faz~na. After that he got to be a cooper. He made barrels and baskets-—things he could do sittin‘ in his chair, They picked him up and made stumps for him. Some folks was mean.

	“My mother was Rachel and my father was Andrew Yackson. I had three brothers fought in the War. I was too young. They talked of taking me in a drummer boy the year it ceased. ~Iy nephew give me this uniform. It is warm and it s good. My breeches needs s cxae repal ra reason I a in‘ t got them on. [He has worn a blue uniform for years and yeara...w~edJ