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	Thterviewer	 Mj~s Irene Robei‘taon
	Peraon Interviewed	JohnLy~oh, Brink1ey~ Arkansa8 •

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	“My mother was a slave of sick Lynch. They lived close to Nash‘ ville, Tennessee. My father run away from Buck Lynch before the Civil War. He lived in the woods till he nearly went wild. My mother fed him at night. I was twenty~.one years old before I ever seen him. My mother worked several years and didn‘t know ehe was free. She come with sc~ traders from close to Nashville out here. I was born at Cotton Plant. I got two living brother8 in Memphis now.

	WI ~as raised a farmer. The first work I ever done away frœi h~ was here in Brinkley. I worked at the sa~iiU fur ~.tn and Black. ~ I went to Ft. &iith and worked in er oil mill. I come back here and farmed trum 1911 till 1915. Then I worked in the Brinkley oil mill. I cooked the cotton aed i~al. One. o~° my bosses had me catch a small cup f~ill tur him every once in awhile. The oil taste something like peanut butter. It taste very well while it is hot and smells t1iie too. I quit work when they quit the mill here. It burned up. I do lIke the work. They got some crazy notion and won‘t hire old fellows like me no more. lobs are hard to get. Younger men can get something seems like pretty easy. I niake a garden. That le ‘bout all I can do or get to do.

	“My niother‘s name was Molly Lynch. She cooked so~ at Cotton Plant and worked in the field. She talked a right smart bout the way elle had to do in slavery times but I don‘t recollect mich.