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“My wife didu‘ t have many people. She laiowa her mother, her mother‘ e

mistThaß ‚ and all • Her ma i~e 2ian~d Martha Henson. That waa her married name. Her miatreas‘ last na~z~e was Stribling. Martha Ilensozi was a well.. treated slave. The Striblinga lived in Roclcport, Arkansas, but their

native home was Georgia. I don‘t know where the Striblinga are now. The

	old man died before the Civil War broke out, I gueea they ars all dead and

iii	torment. My wite‘ a grandmother and grandtather on her mother‘ a aide were gone so far back that neither she nor I know anything about them.


Ihippinga

“My €reat~randmother on m~‘ mother‘ a aide was in Union County when I knew anything of her.-cloee to ~1 Dorado. I was about twenty—two yeara old

when she died. She was ta.U and spare built, dark ginger cake color.

\ Coarse straight black hair that had begun to mingle with gray. She noTar did get real gray, and her hair ~aa never white. Even when she died, at a hundred and thirteen years, her hair was mostly black mingled with gray.

	\	“The overseer knocked her in the head in slavery times, and they had to put a silver half.dollar in her head to hold her brains in. I have seen the place inyselt. When I was a little fellow she used to let me feel the place and she would say, ‚ That ‚ s where the overseer knocked granny in the he~id ‚ son. I got a half- dollar In there . ‚ I would put her hair aside.~—my but 8he had beautit~il hairl--and look at the place. ~

	“My wife could toU you what my mother told her. She has seen the marks on my mother‘ a back and has asked, ‘Mama, what ‚ a all these marks on your bak‘?‘ And mama would say, ‚ Tha‘ a where I was whipped in slavery tintes, daughter.‘ She never did like to tell the details. ~it the scars were awful.