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	~	~ 1900 Hoiard ~ Street, Little Bock~‘ ~‚rkans*a
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	~I waa boTh J~uly 4, 1862 at 2:08 in the morning at Lynch~irg, Sumter

County, South Carolina.
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“My mother iaa ~~iamed Lucy Sanders. My father was named Sumter airant.

Otir owner was Dr. ~J. L Saiiders, the son of Mr. Bartlett Sanders. Sumter

Durant was a white men. ~r mother las fourteen years old when I was born.

I was her second child. Airant was in the Contederate army and • wae killed

during the War in the sa~ year I was born, and before my birth.


~ Sold

	“ihen I was a year old, my mother was sold for $1500 in gold, and I was sold for 500 in gold to William Carter who lived about five muai. eouth of Carteraville. The payment was made in fine gold. I was sold because my folk realized that treedcm was coming and they wanted to obtain the cash value of their slavea.


Naine

	“My name is spelled ‘Waters‘ b~t it is pronounced ‘Walten.‘ Than I was born, I was thought to be a very likely Child and it was proposed that I should be a waiter. Therefore I was called laters (but it was pronounced Waiters) • They did not spell it w-a-~i-t.e—r.e, but they pronounced it that way.