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The easteX‘fl states sold their slaves to the southern state8 and got all the money, then they treed the a3~aves and that ~ lett the SOuth without anything,

	“Grandma K~aty bad Creek IX4iañ blood in her. She was ot n~dium size and height, copper colored, high cheek bon es, em~ll aquinchy eye3, black curly hair. Her hair was really pretty but she didn‘t curl it. ~ It was just naturally curly. 8he was a practical nurse as they call it, but she did more of wha~ soirie people call a midwife. They eaU it something else náW,
	They got a proper word for it. ~	.
	   “They got it in these government agencies.	That is what she was even

In slavery times. She worked for colored people and White people both, That was after she was freed uiitil she went blind. She went blind three years before she died. ßhe died at the age ot exactly one hundred years, She treated women and babies. . They aid she was a real good doctor in her day. That is been fifty-four years ago. [i will be fitty~~four years old tomorrow—September 18, 1938.] in slavery times my gran&ua was aimoat as
	free as she was in freedom because ot her work.	. ~	:1

~ :\	.~ ~ ~ “8he said that Bob MoClendon was cruel to her, Sometiaea he ‘4 ~t

angry and take the shovel and throw hot ashes on the slaves. 4nd then he‘d see them with blisters on them and he would take a handsaw or a flat plank and bust the blisters. Louisiana was a ~ country and they • wouldn!t bave much clothes on. When the slaves were treed ‚ he went cc~pleteIy broke. He
	had scarcely a place to live.	.	~

	“I seen him onc.. Re 3ook like an old ‘4oaaurn. iie had a long beard down to his waist and he had long side ~xrns too. Tust a little ot his tac.

showed, He~ was t5fl and stooping and he wore his hair ions and uncut do~ on his iieok. You know about what he looked like, Re had ôn blue jeans pants and brogar~ shoes and a oo~on shirt—a work shirt. Ha wore yen co~on clothô.