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her twin was a boy named Ywie and her nana wa~ Betty. Her master kept her brother to be a driver for him. She was sent from Virginia to Louisiana to people that were related to her Virginia people. She called her Louisiana mistress ‘~ite Ma‘ she never did call her ‘misais. ‚ The white folks and the colored folks too called her Indian because she was mixed with Choctaw.

That‘ S the Indian that has brown spots on the jaw. They‘ re brownskin0 It

was an Indian from the Oklahoma reservation that said my mother belonged to r the Choctaws~

“She rode from Virginia to Louisiana on a boat at the age of twelve

years. She was separatsd tram her mother and brothers and sisters and never did see them again. She was kept in the house for a nurse, &e was not a niidwite. She nursed the white babies. That was what she was sent to Louisiana for~$o nurse the babies. The Louisiana man that owned her was named George Dorkins. Thit I think this white woman caine from VIrginia. She married this Louisiana man)then sent back to her father‘s house and got grand~~. ma; sbe got her for a nurse. She worked only a year and a halt in the field

bei°ore peace was declared, After she got grown and married, my grandtather.s.~	r she had to stay with him and cook and keep house for him. That was during slavery time but after George 3~rkina died. Dorkins went and got hisselt a barrel of whiskey-..one of these great big old barre1s~.and set it up in his house, and put a faucet in it and didn‘t do nothin‘ but drink whi8key, He

said he was goin‘ to drink hisseif to death. And he clido

	“He was young enough to go to war and he said he would drink hisself to death before he would go, and he did. MY grandma used to steal news~. papers out of his house and take them down to the quarters and leave them there where there were one oi‘ two slaves that could read and tell how the ~ar was goin‘ on, I never did learn how the slaves learned to read,