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~: ~	. Visited by Father )~
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ç~ ~ ~ - ~‚ ~ “When Harri son and Cleveland ran for President ‚ my father caine to

Little Rook. Some colored people had been killed in the campaign fights, and he had. been eunmioned to Little Hock to make some statements in connec-‘ tion with the trouble. He stopped at a prominent hotel and had rae to come to see him. When I went up to the hotel to meet him, there were a dozen or more white men at that place. when I shook hands with him, he said, I Gentlemen, he ‚ s .a little shady but he ‘s my son.‘ His name was Captain

I.	T. Robinson.. He lived in Lisbon, Arkansas,~
	.	Mother

	“My xaother‘s naine was Frances Goodwin. ~he belonged to Captain Robinson. I don‘t know but I thiùk that when they came to Arkansas, they came from Georgia. They were refugees • When the War started ‚ people that owned niggers ran from state to state to try to hold their niggera.


House

	“I lived right in the yard. We had tour houses in the yard and three of them v~as made of logs and one was made out o f one~by-twe1ve planks. I lived in the one made out of planks. It had one big room. I reckon it was about twenty by fifteen, more than that, I reckon. It was a big room. There two doors and no windows. We had old candlesticks for lights. We had old homemade tables. All food was kept in the smokehouse and the pantry. The food house and the . ~iokehouse were two of the log cabins in the yard.


Schooling

	~	He had a teacher to come right on the place and Stay there teaching. He raised me and brought me up just as though I was his Ow~ child,