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	“Nellie J‘alne5 is my ~iai~. Yea, Mr. D. B. James was my husband, and he remembered you very kindly. They call me ‘4~t Nellie. ‚ I was born In Starkville, Ouachita County, Mis~iseippi the twenty~ninth or March, in 1866, just a year after the War closed. My parente were both owned by a plantation tarmer In O~iachita Oounty, Mi88isaippi, but we came to Arkansas a good many yeara ago.

	“My husband wae principal. of the colored Bchool here at Ruesell— Tille for thirty-live yeara ‚ and people ‚ both white and blaok, thought a great deal or him. We raised a family of six children, five boys and a girl, and they now live in different states, 8O~ of them in California. One of my sons is a doctor in Chicago and is doing well. They were all well educated. Mr. lame. saw to that of course.

	“So far as I remember from what my parents said, the master was reasonably kind to all his alaves, and my husband said the same thing about his own ma8ter although he was quite young at the time they were treed. (Yes sir, you see he was born in slavery.)

	“I was too young to remember much about the ~ Klux Klan, but I ren~mber we used to be afraid of them and we children wculd rim and hide when we heard they were coming.

	“No sir, I have never voted, because we always had to pay a dollar for the privilegs.~-and I never seemed to have the dollar (laughingly)