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	.	RJ.Da ‚ &‘iùkley, 4xkanaaa
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	“My mother‘s namc was lulla Metcalf and my father‘s name was Thn

Metcalf. They belong to an old bachelor nenmd Bill Metca].~. I ~ think I

was born Izi Lee County, Misaissippi. They did not leave when the war waa

over. They stayed on th9 ~B1ll Metcalf place till they died. I reck,~ I

do remember him.	.

	“I can‘ t tell you. ‚ bout the war nor slavery~ I don‘ t know a thing ‘bout lt. I heard but I couldn‘t tell you it been eo long agoo They didn‘t expect nothing but freedom. They got along In the Reconstruction days about like they had been getting along. Seemed like they didn‘t know much about the war. They heard they was free. I don‘t remember the Ku ~lux Klan. I heard old folks talk ‘bout it. .

	“I don‘t know if my father ever vote4 but I guess he did. I have voted but I don‘t vote now. In part I ‘proves of the wc~en votin‘ ~ I think the men outer vote and ‘aupport his family fur as he can.

	“I corne here in 1914 from Mississippi. I got busted farmin‘.. I knowed a heap o‘ people said they was doing so well I corne too. I cc~e oil the train.

	“I ain‘t got no home, no lend. I got a hog. No garden. Two tinies in the year flow Is hard ~ winter and su~ner. In acme ways tiiMa is better. Iii 8O1fl~ ways they Is worser~ When a trade used to be made