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	InterV1eWer~	SamuelS.Pajlor	~
	Person interviewed	~ KirkMlller
	.	8~	1513 Stati Street, Little Rock, Arkansai

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ni am eighty-six years old.—eighty-slx years and six months. I wa~

born 1Tuly 2~5, 1851, 1 waa a slave, Didn‘t get free till lune 1865. 1 Wa8 a boy fifteen years old when I got free.

	ni have been living lii this house fifty years, I have been living In Arkansas ever since 18?3. That makes about sixty—five years.

	“The engineer who got killed in that wreck the other day (a wreck which occurred February 7, 1938, Monday morning at three and in which the engineer and five other people were killed) came right from my town, Fort Valley, GeorgIa. I caine here from there in. 18?3. I don‘t know anybody living In Fort Valley now unless it ‚ s my own folks. And I don‘t ‚ speot I‘d

know them now. When I got married and left there, I was only twenty—one years old, ~


Parent8 and Relatives

	“My mother and tather were born In South Carolina. After their master and mi8sis married they came to Georgia. Back there I don‘t ~ow. Then I remember anything they were in Georgia. They saId they came from South Carolina to Georgia. I don‘t know how they ca~. Both of m~ Parents were Negi‘oes. They CWT~ to ~Zk811&8~8 ahead of IflS. I have their pictures.“ (He Carried me into the parlor and showed n~ lIfe~1zed bust portraits of~ his mother and father,)