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		Person interrieved	Abaolom Jenktna~! ~•~•i~•~ Rlena Lrkanaaa

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	“I was born a few years befare the break out of the old war (Civil Jar). I hada boy fit in thu lat war (World War). H. geta a pension and he aende In. part of it every month. Ba dan‘ t send z no amount whatever he can spar. n~. 11e never do send me lees than ten dollars. I pick cotton a~e last year. I pick twenty or thirty pounds end it got to raining and so cold my granddaughter said it would make me sick.

	“I was born dunn‘ slavery. I was born ‚ b~t twenty-five miles frcm

Nolan, Tennessee. They call m Lb J~enkina Čor my old master. H. was A. B.

Jenkins. I don‘t know if his na~ was Abeolom or not. Mother was na~ Liddy

Strum. They was both sold on the block, They both cś~ to Tennessee trśi

Virginia in a drove and was sold to mn lived less then ten miles apart.

Then they got consent and got married. I don‘t know how they etruck up

together.

	‘They had three families of‘ us. We lived up close to A. B. J‘enkins‘ house. He had been married. H ias old man when I knowed him. His daughter lived with him. She was married. Her husband was brought home trcm the war dead... I don‘t know it he got sick and died or shot. The only little children

on the place was me and J‘ake Yenkins. We was no kin ~it jus‘ like twins. Master would call us up and stick his finger. in biscuits and pour molasses in the hole. That was sure good eating. The ‘lasaea wouldn‘t spill till we done

et it up. He‘d fix us up another one. He give us biscuits oft•ner than the grown folks got them. We had plenty wheat bread till the old war co~ on.