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		‘ThlZ‘tsOflth: Stret, 8OUth lid., one block eait
	~tge_,A~out ‚*	          of Boyle ParkRoad
— -~ - ~ — Route 6, Cars L. G. Cotton, Little Rock, Arkansas


~	— — ~ — — — — ~ — — — _ — — — — — ~ — — ~ — ~ — ~ — — — — — — — ~ — Birth and Age

	“I have been hers quit. a few years. This lit. is short. A sian ought to prepal‘s for eternity. I had an uncis iuho used to say that a person who

went to torment stayed as . long a~ there was a grain of sand on the sea.

	“I was a little boy when slavery broke. I used to gO out with my

brother. He watched gaps. I did not have to do anything; I just went out

with him to keep him company. I was scared of the old ~ater. I used to	f

call him the ‚ Big Bear.‘ He was a great big old men.	.

	“I was about SIX years old when the lai‘ ended, I guess. I don‘t know how old I am. The Insurance ~n ~A1t me down as seventy-three. I know I was here in slavery time, and I was just about . six years old when the War ended.
	.	Schooling

	.	nI got my first learning in Alabama. I didn‘t learn anything at all in slavery times. I went to school. I would go to the house in slavery time, and there wouldn‘t be nobody hoe., and t would go to the bed and get under lt because I was scared. When I would wake up it would ~ be way in the night and dark, and I would be in bed.

	“I got my schooling way after the airreuder. We would a&ce crops. The third time we moved, dad started me to school. I had colored teachers. I was in Talladega County. I made the fifth €i‘~de bfor. I stopped. MT fathar• died and then I had to atop Sfld take cars of ~ mother.