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	Peraon interviewed	Allen Johnaon
718 Arch Sti~it, Little Iloàic, Arkanaae
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	~I Was born in Georgia about twelve milea fron Cartera~ill., in Oaaa County, and about the aan~ diatance trc~ Caaaville. I waa a boy about eight or nine years old when I coi~ frc~ thor. • ~it I have a very good ~ry. Then I haYe seed the distance and everything in the Geography. My folka were dead long ago now. My oldeet brother la dead too. He waa juat lar~ enough to go to the mils. In them tlii~a, they had milla. They would fix hl~ on the horee and he would go ahead.

“My	‘ a n~ was Clam Jobnaon, and my mother‘ a n~ waa MaMy.

Her madam‘s nair~ I don‘t know. I waa ~nall. I re~mber my grand~. ~te‘a dead long long ago. Long tlnm agol I think her na~ waa Rachel. Tea, I‘~ positive lt ~aa Rachel. That is what I believe. I was a little bitty fellow then. I think she was my mother‘a mother. I know one of my zixther‘a sisters • I~er n~nm was I~cinda. I don‘ t know how aany ahe had nor nothin‘.

	“JohnaŒla waa the n~ of the ~aatera ay mother and father had. They go by the nana of ~ohnaon yet. Before that I don‘t know who they had for masters. The pastor‘s nana was Lindsay Johnson and the old mlaeli was Mary J‘ohnaon. POople long time ago ueed to send boya big enough to ride to the mifl. My brother ua.d to go. It ran by waterupo~r• Th.y had a big ~il1 pond. They d~d that up. ~h.n they‘d ~t ready to run the mill, they‘d open that darn and lt would turn the wheel. My oldeat brother went to the mill and played with old master‘ a eon and ~.
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