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1004 Missouri Street, Pige Bluff, Arkanaa~
A~e  78~


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“I wa~a a little boy pickin‘ up chip8 and helpin‘

teed the hogs in slavery tbiea for o]4 i~Btsr. Name wae Georg Kouston. That waa in AlabaDza.

~I reckon I do rem.mbr Georg Houston. La tal‘ aa I

know he waa good to ue. I reme~nber when be died.

SOur people stayed right there after fredc~. My

mother waa a Houaton. till ehe married.

RI reckon I do r~emb.r the paddyroilera. I

re~euibsr the hounda runniu‘ too. I never thought I

would remember that no mors.

They didii‘ t g.t after me ‚ cauae I was too little.

It didn‘t last long enough for ‘em to get alter ma.

“l‘a sick and not able to help mya.lt. I got ~n

over by a wagon.

~Itm liTin‘ here with my daughter. Her huaband is a

preacher and they got eight children, so you can imagine how much they can do for i~.

‘One word of the white folka is worth a thouaand of
ours.~