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Shea bssn dead a long iii. I h.ard folks say tiaea ~aa awful hard right after the r, that tim~ ~a ea8ier in Blavery for ds reaaon when th.y got sick they got the beet of care. She said they had all kinde of herbs along the aide of the walks in the garden. I don‘t guess after they got ssttle.d times was near as hard. She talked about how hard it was to get clothss end something to eat. Prioes seemed 11ko riz like they ars now.

	RI don‘t know ‘bout ~ father‘s votin‘ cause I didn~i~ know him till after I was grown and not niich thn. He was down about Marienna when I knowed him. I did vote. I vote the Republican tIcket. I like the way we voted the beet in 1886 or ‘8?. It ~e called lair Divids. lach side p~it his men and the one got moat votes got elected. I don‘t think it necessary fur the wo~n to vot•. Her place la in the h~e. Seem like the wox~n all going to work and the ~n c~uit. Ab~tt 40 years ago R. P. Polk was justice of the peace here and Clay Holt was the con— stable. They made very good officers. I don‘t recollect nothing ‘bout them being elected. Brinkley is always been a very peaceable town. The colored folks havi to go clear away from town with any rowdinees.~ (The Negroes live among the whites and at their back doors in every part of town.) ~

	NI live with my eon-in-law. Re works up at the Gazzola Grocery CœLpany. He owns this house. He j~ doing very well but he works hard.

	“The young ~neration so far as I knows is getting along fairly well. I don‘t know if ti3~a is harder; th.y is jes‘ different. When folks do right seems there ‚ B a way provided for~7 ‘em.