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	“As nigh as I can come at it, I was bout five or six time of the war, I remember when the war ceasted. I was a good-~sized chap.

“Du~rin‘ the war my mother‘s master sent us to Texas; western Texaa i~ they stopped ins. We stayed there two years and then they brought ue after surrender.

	“I remember when the war cea3ted and rerii~nber the soldiers ref~gee1n‘ through the country. I‘m 8omewhar round eighty~one. I‘m tellin‘ you the truï. I ain‘t just now come here.

	“I was born r iglit here in Arkansas. My t a master was old B. D. Williaiiis of Tennessee and we worked for his son Mac H. Williema here in Arkansaa, They was good to my mother. Alwaya had nursea for the colored ch1idn~n while the old fOlks was in the field,

	“After the war I uaed to work in tI~a house for my white folka .~ for Dr. Bob Williams way up there in the country on the river. I stayed with his brother Mac Williams mi~t near twenty..five or thirty yeara. Worked around the house servin‘ and dom‘ arrands different placee.

	“I went to school a little bit a good piece after the war and learned to reacj and write.

	t, ~ t ye heard too much of the Ku Klux. I ren~mber when they was Ku K‘ ail round through here.
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