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	    Interviewer	~	~ern1ce Bowden
	Per8on Interviewed	She~pherd Rhone~~
		lOtb and Kentucky
	Age~7~	—~ ~- ___~_f~f~, ~ ~
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	“Yes matam, I was bred and born in tslxty...tbiee In Phillips County, Arkans as ‚ close to Helena ‚ on old Judge Jones ‚ plantation. Judge Jones, he was a lawyer. Remember hirn? I ought to, he whip— ed me enough. His if~ s name was Caroline Jones ~ 3he us ed to smack my jaws and pull my ears but she was a pretty good woman. The old judge was a raw one though. • You had to step around or he ‚ d step around for you. .

	HI stayed right there till I was grown. My mother was named Kat i e Rhone and my father wa s named Danie I Rhone ~ My mother was born in Riebmond, Virginia and my father in Petersburg, Virginia.

	“Judge Jones brought em here to Arkansas. My father was a ‘oodyguard for old Judge 3ones‘ son Tom in the War. My father stuck with him till peace declared ~ had to do it.

	“They was thirteen of us chillun and they is all gone but me, and I‘ll soon be gone.

	111 know when the Yankees come I run from em. When peace declared, the Yankees come all through our house and took everything they could get hold of to eat.

	“The only reason the Yankees whipped the South was they

Starved em.

	t‘ I know one time • when peace de o lared I caught afire and I run and juniped in a tub of water and I had sense enough not to