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	“110w 1 owns this place, I‘ll tell you. A man here bad all dia land ‘round here (Negro town) laid ~ He couldn‘t ~eii ~ ~ his lots ‚ They woulthi‘ t buy his lots. so he got after nie ~ We had made a good crop, so I got up the money and bought this place. One hundred dollars 18 what I give him. . Others then started to aettlin‘ in and about close to my place.

	“I guess it Was $potaells in Virginia what raised her. She say her name was Lizzie Spotseil Johnson. Theii when ~phram Heater bought her they learned her to do about in their house. She cooked and swept and knocked flies and tended to the children. She stayed with ‚ em a pretty long time till she run off and went to Fryers Point.

	“She may have told us about the Nat Turner rebellion but I don‘t remember it. They sung a lot in my mother‘s time. Seemed lack they was happier than we are somehow. ~ She sung religious songs and one or two field songs. I don‘t recollect ‘em now.

	“I never did vote. I never cared mithin‘ about it. &me of‘ ‘em

‘round here wouldn‘ t miss votin‘ tor nothin‘.

	“Lawd me, chile, the times is done run ahead ol“ me now. I‘m so fur behind I never expect to catch up. I don‘t pay no more attention to the yol1n~ ~o1ks, the way they act now, ‘an I do my little dog there. They don‘t want no advice and I would be afraid I would ‘vise ‘em wrong. When fly children come I tell ‘em you are grown and you knows right from wrong. Do rj~t. That‘s all I know to say.

	“The way I am supported is my husband gets all the jobs he able to do ~ ~ and the governmint give me W1~ hi~ *10 a month. We haa a

little ~arden.~