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My sister in Washington has four boys and five girls. My sister in. Chicago has two children—-one in Detroit and one in Washington. I am the oldest living.

	“We never had any kind of trouble with white people in slave time, and we never had any since • ~verybody in t owii knowed u~s ‚ and they never bothered us. The editor of the paper in Montgomery got up all our history and sent the paper to my brother in Washington. If I had saved the paper, I would have had it now. I don‘t know the name of the paper. It was a

white paper. I can‘t even rem&iber the name of the editor9

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	“~e were always sLipported by ray father. Mymother did do nothing at

all except stay home and take care of her children. I had a father that cared for us. He didu‘ t leave that part undone • He did his part in every respect. He sent every child away to school. He sent two to Talladega, one to Yale, three to Fiske, and one to Howard University.

	“I dOn‘t remember much about how freedom came to the slaves. You see, we didn‘t live near any of them and would not notice, and I was young anyway. All I remember is that when the army came in, everybody had a stick with a white handkerchiet on it. The white handkerchief represented peace. I don‘t know just how they announced that the slaves were free.

	9~e lived in. a8 good a house as this one here. It had eight rooms in

it. I was married sixty years ago. My husband died two years ago. We were married fifty-eight years. Were the only colored people here to celebrate the fift ieth anniversary. (She î s mistaken in this; %~atJ ~vic.. Intosh has been iaarried for fifty~ix years and he and his wife are still making it together in an ideal manner—-ed.) I am the mother of eight children; three girls are living and two boys. The rest are dead.