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—-~ - “My mother was‘ bo~ March 16, 1865, and knew nothing of slavery.

~	“Both my grandmothers and both grandfathers were slaves. My father was

:	born in the samo year ~ as my mother and like my mother knew nothing of slavery although both of thera might have been bem slaves.

~	“I knew my mother‘ s mother and father and my father‘ s mother, but I didn‘t •• know my father‘ s father.

	“He was from Texas and he always stayed there. Be never did come . out to LouIsiana where I was born. My mother was born in LouIsIena~ but ~y

	father was born In Texas. I done t know what county or city ~y father was ~ born In. I just heard my grandmother on his side say he was born in ~xas,

	“DLlring the War (he was born in ‚ 65 when the War ceased) ‚ Grandmother Katy-4hat was her na~, Katy, Katy Rlmore — she was In Louisiana at f Irat—‘ she wa~ run out in Texas, I suppose, to be hidden from the Yankees. My

~	father was born there and my grandfathér stayed there ‚ Re ~ died in ~xas and

~	then Grandma Katy • come back to Louisiana with my father and. settled In

~	Ouachita parish.

	“Grandma Katy was sold from South Carolina into Louisiana to Bob Mo.~. Clendon, and she kept the n~ of . Ilmore who was her first owner in South Carolina, It was Bob McClendou who run her out . In ~xaa t~ hide her tr~ the Yankees, My grandfather in T6xas kept the na~ of J~auiiaon. That wae the name of his master in ~xaa. Bt~t grandma kept the nana of Elmoi‘e from South Carolina because he was go~~‘ ~ to her. He was better than Bob MCClandon,