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Thr~on interviewed	. . Robert Jei
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4325 L Eighth Strsst, Little Rook, Arkanaas
	Age  66 or older	Occupation	Cook
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~ — —	~ — — — — — — ~———— — ~ ~ — ~ ~ ~ — — — — — — — — — “I was born in Lexington, Mississippi, in the year 1872. My mother‘s

name was florida Hawkins. florida James was her slavery n~. I~vid Jernes was her old master. That was in Mississippi--the good old countryg ~op1e hate it because they don‘t like the na~ but it was a mighty good country when I was there. The white people there wire bettsr to the colored pople when I was there than they are here. But there is a whole lots ot places that is worse than Arkansas.

	~I have been here forty-eight years and I haven‘t h~d any trouble with nobody, and I has~ owned three homes in my time. My nephew and ay brother happened to meet up with each other in Francs. They thought about ~ end wrote and told i~ about it. And I writ to my sister in Chicago following up their information and got in touch with my people. Didn‘t find them out till the great war started. Had to go to Europe to find my relatives. My sister‘s people and mine too were born in Illinois, but my mother and two sisters and another brother were born in Mississippi. Their kin born in Illinois were half—brothers and so on.


Refugeeing -— ~osts

	sI heard ~y mother say that her master and them had. to refugee thee to keep them frc~ the Yankees. She told a ghost tale on that. I ~iesa it imist have bien tria.