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Name of Interviewer Subject    -~--~ -—
Irene Robertson
NEGRO LORE
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Charlie lîaden‘s f‘ather ran away and went to the war to fight. He wa s a s lave and le ft hi s owner • HI s mo ther di ed when he was five years old but before she died she ~ve Charlie to Mrs, Frances Oweri~s ( white ledy) . She came to Des Arc and ran the City Hotel. He never saw his father till he was grown. ~e worked for Mrs. Owens. He never did run. with colored folks then. He nu?sed her grandchildren ‚ Guy and Ira Brown • Then. he was grown he bought a farm at Green Grove. It consisted of a house an~d forty-‘ seven acres of land, He farmed two years. ~ fortune teller cerne along and told him he was going to marry but he better be careful that they wouldn‘t live together or he might “drop out.“ He went ahead and married like he was “fixing“ to do. They just couldm‘t get along, so they got divorced,

They bad the wedding at her house and. preacher Isarel Thomas (colored) married therrt and they went on~ to his house, He don‘t remember ho~c she was dressed except in white and he had a wflOW outfit too.“

Next he married Lorine Rogers at the Green Grove Church and took her home. She fell off the porch with a tub of clothes end died from it just about a year after they married.

He married again at the church and lived with her twenty years. They had four girls and. four boys, She died from the change of life.

The last wife he didn‘t live with either. She is still living.

Had another fortune teller tell his fortune. She said, “Uncle, you are pretty good but be careful or you‘ li be walking around begging for vIctuals,“ He said it had nearly come to that now except it hurt hirn to walk. (He can hardly walk.) He believes some of what the fort une tellers tell cornes true ‚ He has been on the same farm since 1887, which is forty-‘nine years, and did fine till four years ago. He can‘t work, couldn‘t pay taxes, and has lost his land.
This information given by____	CharlieVaden	~	C	)
Place of Residence
- - Hazen ‚ Green Grove ‚ Ark.
Occupat ion
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