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~	— ~ — — ~Zoa.:phiILe Scott Ly~aoh I a my name and I aho ‘ t know a thing to

toi]. you. I don‘t remeiaber my father at taU.. The tiret thing I can remember about my mezna alte waa fixing to come to Arkansaa. 8h. cc~e aa a ininigrant. They paid her fare but she had to pay it back. We co~ on the train to M.mphia and on the boat to Gregory Point (Augueta). We left her brother with grandma back in Tenneaaee. Ther was three children younger then ~. The old folks talked about old times more than they do now ~*tt I forgot all ehe said too much to tell it straight.

	“We tarmed, cleared land and mama and ~e washed and ironed and sewed all our lives. I cooked for Mr. Gregory at Augusta fo~ a long tiI~. I married then I cooked and washed and ironed till I got so porely I can ‚ t do much no more.

	~I never voted and I wouldn‘ t know how so ~ ein‘ t no use to go u,p there. .

	‘Some of the younger generation is better off than they used to be and soij~ of them not. It depends a whole heap on the way they do. The colored folks tries to do like the white l‘olks far as they‘s able. Every.

	thing is changing so fast. The present condit ions is harder for po white folks and colored folks than lt been in a long ti~. ~.arly everything je to ~y and prices out of eight. Work is so scarce.