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	Interviewer  — -. —*-.- -    )4~iss Irene Hobertaon

Person interviewed	Ida Ri~ej~ Forrest City, Arkansas

	Age~






	UI was born in Richmond, Virginia, Colonel RadThrd and Emnia Radford o‘aned my mother. They had a older girl, &itna and Betty and three boys. I called her Miss Betty.

	“My mother was Sylvia Jones and she had rive children. Bill J~ones was ~y father, He was a born free man and a blacksmith at L~rnchburg, Virginia

in slavery times.

	“He asked Colonel Radford could he come to see my mama and carry her, They had a wedding in Colonel Rad~ord‘s dining room and a preacher on the

2lace married them, They told Ins. My father was a Presbyterian preacher. I heard papa preach at Lynchburg, He had a white principle but no white blood. I never knew him very much till long after freedom.

	“Miss Betty Radford was raising me for a house girl. I was younger than her children. Mother was a weaver for all on the place. Old Aunt Caroline was the regular cook but my mother helped to cook for hands he hIred at busy seasons of the year. My sisters lived In the quarters and r~~r~a slept with then. She helped them. They worked in the field some, Thoy was careful not to overwork young hands, They cooked down at the quarters, They had a real old man and woman to set about and see after the Children and feed them. The older children looked after the babies, Then

~	Betty went off vi siting she would send me down there ‚ I did. love

it.