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	H ~ never did no work before goin‘ on Churohill ‚ s p lantation. acme o~ the oldest ones did, bub I di4n‘t. I learned haw‘ to plow at John Addison‘ s place. The war w~.s goin‘ on then. I milked cows for 14m and ohuriied &ud cleaned up. I cooked sc~ie for lthn. Are you acquair~ted with Blass? I nursed Julian Blass. I didn‘t nurse him on Addison‘s place; I nursed hin at his father~s house up on M~.in Streeb, af.‘ter I ośae here. I nursed hita and Essie both. I xnu‘sed her too. I used to have a time with then chilien. The~r weren‘t notM‘~‘ but babies. The gal was about three months old and Julian was walkin‘ t rounds That was alter I come to Lit~ble Rock.

	tt~T mother coene to Little Rook right after the war. She brought ail

of us with her but the oldest~ He come later.

	“She vtent to work and cooked and ~washed and ironed here. I dontt rcaaea~iber the names of the people she worked for. The~r all dead—the old ~n

and the old ladies.	.
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	Tt5}~ sent me to school. I went to sohool at PhilanderAand down to the

end of town and in the ooiuitry. We had a white man first and then we had a colored woenan teacher. The white n~n was rougit. He would fight all the time. I would read and spell without open1i~ i~r book. The~r would have then blue-back spellers and MoGuf1~y‘ s reader. They got ~re eduoation then than the~j do naw. Now the~r is busy fight5.1I~ one another and killin‘ one another~ ~hen you see aX~Tthing in the paper, you don‘t know whether lt is true or not. Florence Lacy‘s sister wa~ one of i~r teachers. I wont to Union school
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	“You rśaetnbor Reuben ~hite? The~r tried to bury Ma and he ow~te to before the~r got hi~n in the grave. 11e used to own the First Baptist Church. He used to pastor it too. He sent for J. P. Robinčon by me. He told Robinson he wanted hua to take the Church and keep it as lone as he live~