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When we fust came here dia place, as well as de rest ob de Valley, wuz just a big canebrake— nothin‘ lived in dere but bears, wolves, and varmints, 1fl~y de Mahster would habe to round up de livestock each afternoon, put dem in pens, and den put out guards all night to keep de wolves and bears frum gettin‘ em. De folks didn‘t go gallivatiri‘ round nightslike dey do now or de varmints would get them. But den we didn‘t stay here but a few months until de Mahster‘e A.LO.L.‘ wuz up, so wo had to go back and jine de army. We fought in Mississippi Al abama, Ge orgia, and South Carol ma.

	“~hen de war ended de Maheter moved us to Miller County, but not on de Adams farm. For de man ‘~,tiut used to own de farm said Uncle Sam hadn‘ t made any such money as wuz paid him for de farm, so he wanted his farm back. Dat Confederate money wuzn‘t worth de paper it wuz printed on, so de Mahster had to gib him back de farm. Poor Massa Ogburn - he didn~t live long after dat. He end his wife are buried side by side inRondo Cemetery?

	“Not long after de negroes wuz freed, I took 86 ob dem to de votin‘ place at Homan and voted ‚ em al 1 stra ight Democratic . on ~ way back home dat evenin‘ five negroes jumped frum de bushes and stopped me. ~‘ey ‚ splained dat I wuz too ‘fluential wid de negroes and proceeded to string me up by de neck. I hollers as loud as I could, and Roy Nash and Hugh Burton, de election officers, just happen to be oomin‘ down de road and hear ~ yell. Dey ran off de niggers and cut rt~ down, but by dat tine I had passed out. It wuz several weeks befo‘ I got well, and I can still feßl dat rope ‘round my neck. Iffen dey had known how to tie a haligmans knot I wouldn‘t be here to tell you about it.“

	\	“Tt wuzn‘t long after dis dat I jined Colonel‘ Baker‘s Gang for ‘teotion. ‘Colonel‘ Baker wuz a great and brave man and did mo‘ fo de white folks of dis Country den any other man. Why iffen it hadn‘t been Co‘ him de white folks couldn‘t hab lived in dis country, de negroes wuz so mean. Dey wuz so mean dat dey t ~ed heavy plow shoe s aroun‘ de necks ob two little ~thite boys and thre* dem in de lake. Yes euh. I wuz dere.