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He belong to Master Erwnan. He run off axid went on with the Yankeea when they come down from Virginia. We think he got killed. We never heard from him after 1863.

	“In 1882 my white folke went to Padukali, Kentucky. They was on the run • from Yellow Fever. They had kin up there • I stayed in Memphis and nur8ed. They put up flags. Negroea didn‘t have it. They put coffine on the porches betore the people died. ~rried wagons loads of dead bodies wrapped in sheets. White folks would meet and pray the disease be lifted. When they started vomiting black, there was no more hopes. Had to hold them on bed when they was dying. When they have Yellow Fever white folks turn yellow. I never heard of a case of Yellow Fever in Memphis mong my race. Dr. Stone of New Orleans had better luck with the disease than any other doctor. I was 1*isy from 3une till October in Memphis. They buried the dead in long trenches. Nearly all the business houses was closed. The boats couldn‘t stop in towns where Yellow Fever had broke out.

	UI never seen the Ktt Klux.

	“1 never seen no one sold. My father still held a wild animal instinct up in Virginia; they couldn‘t keep him out of the woods. He would spend two or three days back In there. Then the Patty Rollers would nm him out and back hone. He was a quill blower and a banjo picker. They had two corn piles and for prizes they give them whiskey. They had dances and regular figure callers. This has been told to me at night time around the hearth understand. I can recollect when round dancing c~ie in. It was in 1880. ‘ s a song they sung back in Virginia: ‘Moster and mistress both gone away. Qone down to Charleaton/ to spend the sui~ner day. I‘m off to Charleston/early In the mornin‘/ to spend nother day.‘