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	“My wife died six years ago. If she had lived till • tcmorrow, she

would have been married to me sixty years. aus ~ ~ the tenth of FebruaDY and we were marriei~ on the sixth. We just laoked five years of being married sixty years when she died.

.	Jood

“For food ‚ I on‘ t know anything more then bread and meat • Meal,

O	meat, molasses were the only rations I eaw~ in those times the white people had what wa8 known as the white people‘ a house and then ihat was laioin as nlggei• quartera. The children that weren‘t bj€ enough to work were fed at the white people‘ S houße. We got milk and mush for breakfast. When they boiled cabbage we got bread and pot‘~liquor., For supper we got milk and bread. They had cows and the children were fed mostly on milk and mush or milk and bread. We used to bake a corn cake In the ashes1 ash eake~ and put it in the milk.

	“The chicken8 used. to lay out in the barn. If we children would find the nests and bring the eggs in our misais would give us a biscuit, and ~ always got biacuita for Christmas.


Houses in the Negro ~uartere

	“In the nigger quartera there were nothing but log houses. I don‘t rer~ienib~r any house other than a log house. They‘d Just go out in the woods and get logs and put up a log house. Iktt dirt and mud or clay in the Cracks to seal it. Notch the log8 in the end to hitch them at corners, Nailed planks at the end of the logs to make a door trame.

	“My people all ate and cooked and lived in the same room. Some of the slave8 had dirt floors and acne of them had plank floors.