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	Intel v~.easr	Mias I~neRo~ber~eon
	P~rsc•n Interviewed	     Milto~I&~io~is
		LLD., Brin)r1.ey,~ Arkansas

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“I w~ s t~orn in Marietta Hotel at Marietta, ~orgia. The hotel belong to

.~iiton ~tevex:~a. He had two sous. One died fo I was born and Pink was in.

~1e wa~. ~tres8 Thursday was old master‘s wit,. We all had to refugee.

i~i~ sister w~ down In the bottcma with all the slaves and cattle when she Jie~~i~ j:the tcok sick and died suddenly. They he€~rd the soldiers was coming to ~ ~tiaLta aLd knowed they would ccme by Mariett&, Moster Stevens sold. the L~otei j~st ~t the beginning of the war. He moved to the country. Mania cco:~:ea ~t the hotel and in the country both. The hotel was a brick houas on the railroad where they fed a lot of people e!sry day. Moater Milton ~ tQ t~.ke ‘tflB bout where he went, rode me on hfs foot when I was a baby, :~er t:r~Y ~it to the farn every evening Mistreis Thursday come get me, t.E~e me tc tM house. She got bread and ~tter, sugar, give it to me and I s1e2 t ()i~ e paLlet in her room. I never did know ~ why she done that •

~	a littLe house she slept in. She cooked, They never whooped me. They iLe~r ~i)~ocp~ marrie.

“~ne tj~ the Federal army camped not a ~rsat ways from us. One t ime I

~	~)J~Vj~ jfl a gully ~ big red ditch. ~ I spied the Federals coming. I

i1c~ ~ t‘2e t~itoh ttp the hill and across the Î~ie~ld, They was calvary men

c.::apotl •b~: C1~ o‘t our field. We all left that placř and refttgeed to another

;~‘ ~ • ~ Th~3y d tdn ‚ t ~rn the hou~ae but they sent ~bwo bullets through the

~i1~ o:Lb t 1~at houas. t Old Granny‘ was too old to reftgee. &e kept living