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I don‘t Iścw how‘. I think that she came in a wagon. She stayed there a little while and then she wexib to Churchill‘ s place, Churchill‘ s plaoe and John Addison‘ s plaoe is close together down there. That is old titae. Then folks is dead, dead, dead. Churchill‘s and Addison‘s places joined near

Horse ShoeS Lake. They had hung and burul people-.skilled ‘em and destroyed 1EŚZ1 at Baskin lake, We stayed there about four deys before we went on to Churchill‘ s p]aoe. We couldn‘t stay there long.

“The ha‘x~ts—the spirits—bothered us so we couldn‘t sleep. All th&i

peop]e that had been killed there used to oc~ie back, We could hear thea tipping I round in the hoitse all the night long. They would blow owb tba ligI~rb. You would ‚~iver up and they w~uld git on top of the çiv.r. ~ma oouldn‘ t stand itj so she oś~e down to General Churchill‘ s place and made arrang~nents to stay there. Then she oe~ie back and got us children. She had an old man to stay there with us until she come baCk end got us. We couldn~ t stay there with th&i ha‘ nts dancing ‚ round and carryin‘ us a meriy gait.

“At Churchill‘ s ple.oe n~j mother made cotton and corn I don‘t 1a~ow

•vthat they give her for the work, but I Iaiow they paid her. ~ She was a hustling old lady. The war was still goin‘ on. Churchill was a Yankee. He went off and left the plantation in the hands of his oldest son. His ~ son ~was ne~ned Jim Churchill. That is the old war; that is the first war ever got up—the Civil War. Ma stayed at Churohill~ s long‘ enough to make two or three crops. I don‘t know just how long, Churchill and then wanted to own her— then ami John Addison. ~

~Th~ was three of us big enough to work and help her in the field..

Three—I made fours There was ‚i~j oldest sister, ix~r brother, and n~r nerb to ii~r oldest sister, and iwjself-.‘Aimie, John, ~rt~}Ia, and i~