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He saw five or six ooffins piled up on a wagon being taken out to be buried. He ~ thought it was changing houses and ohanging ways of living. They didn‘t have shoes and warm ölothéi and weren‘t fed from white folks smoke house... j~ota o f the slaves had C onsmption~an4A~d4ght now. Stout iren and ~‘w~n dl. du‘ t live two years after they were freed. Lots: of them said. they didn‘t like that freedom and wanted to go back but the ñ*sters were broke and oouldn‘ t keep many of them if they went baolc.

When warren was about fifteen years old, there was a white. man or two but colored leaders mostly got about a thousand colored people“ to start for t he West walking. Warren had sisters and brothers who etarted on this trip. Warren had some ~~y~ZOth~ ers, his mother was afraid would get in jail. They kept her un easy. They sh~~ed thTèfr~‘~ùff“ by boat • äñd train. He never saw them any mcre but 1~ heard from them . in Louisiana.. Louisiana had a bad nains in those days.

VVhen Warren was about fourt~een and fffte~n, his mother had them on a farm, farming near Hamburg. ~

When he was sixteen or seventeen, his mother and4e other chi]d ren oa~ on the train to about where Carlis le now is but it wasu ‚ t oalled by that name • There were very few houses of any kind. Mr. Emerson had a big store a~1 lots of land. He worked black and white. Mt. Emerson let them have seven or e ight mules and wagons and they farn~ d near there. He remembers pretty so on there was a d epot where the depot now stands~ a -bank, a post offioe, and two or three more stores, all s~iall buildings. He liked coming ~ to Arkansas be,ause he got to ride on the train ~ a long s It was ~sy to live here, There were lots of game and fish.

Warren never shot anything in his life. He was no hunter. ~ were awf u]. • Warren made smoke to run the~~~ from the I ~ cows • Four or five deer would o ane to the smoke. Cows were
afraid of t hem and would leave the smoke. When he would go the deer would leap four or five feet in the air at the sight of him. ..

When Warren lived In Augusta, Georgia, they had schools a month at a time but Warren never did get to go to any, so he can‘t read or write • But he learned to s ave his money. He j olned a Church when he was twelve years old in South Caroli~aa and belongs to the Baptist ohuroh at Green Grove now. ~

The old master in South Carolina persuaded his mother to oon~ back.
They all went back four or five years befôre his mother died. While
Warren was there he married a wcman on a joining farm.