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P6r80fl	interviei.d  NettisYan Bursii.~C]~~rendon,~ Arkanaaa
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	“My mother was named laabel Porter ~nith. She come trcia Springs. ville . ~ Rev.; Porter brought her to Misaisaippi o loae to ~oUy Springs.

Then she ccme to Bateaville ‚ Arkansas. lis owned her. He was a circuit rider. I think he was a Presbyterian minuter. I heard her say they brought her to Arkansas when ehe was a small girl. She nursed and cooked all the tii~. After freedom she went with Reverend Porter‘s relatives to work for them. I know so very little about what she said

about slavery.

	wily fath•r was raised in North Carolina. Hie nana was Jerry &iith

and his master he called J~udgs ~ith. My father mad.. all he ever had :tarmin‘.~ Ee knew how to raise cotton. 11e owned a hosis. This is his

home (a nice home on River Street in Clerendon) and 80 acres. He sold
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this farm two miles tram here after he had para]48i8, to live on.

	“My parents had two girls and tso boys. They aU dead but me.

My mother‘s favorite song was ~Oh Row I Love Jesus Because Re lint Loved Me . „ They ccme here because my mother had a brother dom hers and she heard it was auch fine farmin ‚ lath.

	“Whsn I was a little girl my father was a Presbyterian so he sent me to boandin‘ school in Cotton Plant end then seat me to Jacksonville,