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	Interviewer	M~.ss Irene Robertson

Person	interviewed     Ellen Vaden
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	“I 81T1 83 years old. My mother come from Georgia. She left all her kin. th.ir owner was Dave and Luiza Johnson, They bad two gir1~ and a boy - Meely, Colly and Tobe. My mother‘s aunt come to Memphi s in s lavery t line and o orne t o se e u . She cooked and bought herself free. The folks what owned ber hired her out till they got paid her worth. She died In Memphis. I never heard father say where he come from or who owned him. He lived close by somewhere.

	“My mother cooked. Me and Dave Johnson‘s boy nursed together. When they had company, Miss Luiza was so modest she wouldn‘t let Tobe have ‘t~tty‘. He would come lead my mother behind the door and pull at her till she would take him and let him nurse. She said he would lead her behind the door,

	“I dontt remember freedom. I know the Ku Klux was bad around Augus ta ‚ Ar, One time when I was little a crowd. of Ku Klux corne at about dusk. They told Dave John8on they wanted water. He told them there was a well full but not bother that woman and her children in the kitchen. Dave Johnson was a Ku Klux himself, They went on down the road and met a colored woman. She knowed their horae8, She called some of them by name and they let her alone.

	“One time a colored man was settin‘ by the fire. His wife