6..	45
Right after the War

	“Right after the War, my father went to farming-.renting land. I mean he sharecropped and done around. Thing la come way up from then when the Negroes first started. They didn‘t have no stock nor nothin‘ then. They made a crop just for the third of it, When they quit the third, they started ~ivin‘ them two~4iftha. That‘s more than a third, ain‘t it? Then they moved up from that ‚ and give them half ‚ and they are there yet ‚ If you furnish, they give you two-thirds and take one~third. Or they give you 80 much per acre or give him produce in rent.


Marriage

	“I was married in 1883. My wife‘8 name was Mary Elaton. Her mother died when she was an infant, Her grandmother was an Elaton at first. Then she changed her name to Cwiningham. ~t she always went in the neme of ~1ston, and was an ~lston when she married me. My wife I mean. I married on a Thursday in the Christmas week. Thi8 December 1 will be married f ifty~ five years. Thi8 is the only wife I have ever had. We had three children and all of them are dead. All our birthed children are dead. One of them was just three months old when he died. My baby girl had three children and she lived to see all of them married.


Opinions

	“Our own folks 18 about the worst enemies we have. They will come and sweet talk you and then work against you, I had a fellow in here not long ago who came here for a dollar, and I never did hear from him a~aln after he

~ot it. He couldn‘t get another favor from me. No man can fool me more

than one time ‚ I have been beat out of lots of money and I have got hurt

trying to help people,