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	RJ.D. ‚ three miles ‚ Palest lue ‚ Arkansas

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“I was born six ralles from ~ountice11ar close to the line of‘ Mcrgan and

Jasper County. Mother belong to the &iiths. Her father was part Creek

(Indian). They all was sold to floyd. Malone. His wife was Betsy Malone.

They had five children.

“When I was a child I lay under the loom day after day picking up the

sickle. Ma was a cook and a weaver too.

“Malone was a good man but his wife was one of ‚ em. She was a terrible of humanity. Father was a tarin hand. They had a gin, a shoe shop, blacksmith shop all on. Floyd Malone‘s place. I picked a little cotton ‘mancipation. Ytoyd Malone had to 1~y my mother to git her where my

rather was~

	“Some of the boys wore dresses till they was old. One fellar rode a mule or cow one the other sit talking to his gal at the window a steer come dress tail. Boys got to courting before they got shirts~




didn‘t whoop her. They promised her a ~hOoPin€.

too but I never knowed ‘em to whoop my father. When they whoop my mother I ‚ d ru~n off to place we lived and crawl under the house.
twelve or fifteen years to preaching. While he up and et oft his to take off their long
“They wasn‘t so good to mother. She run off one and one-half miles to her mother on the
several times.

Compton place.
She went They
They whooped her and