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after he became a young mane Some one of her friends that knowed her arid knowed s1~e Wa8 sold away from lier baby met up with this boy and got to quest1ofllfl~ hirn about~ his mother. The white folks had told him hia motherta naine and all • He told theni and they said ‚ ‚ ~y, I know your mother. 3h‘ s down in Newport . ‚ And he said ‚ ‚ Gitmue her address and P 11 write to her and see if I can hear from her,‘ ~nd he wrote0 And the white people said they heard such a hollering and. shouting goin‘ on they said, ‘What‘s the matter with ian‘ And they came over to see what was happening. And she said, ‘I got a letter from my boy that was sold from x~e when he was a nursing baby.‘ She had me write a letter to him. I did all her writing for her and he came to see her0 I didn‘t get to see him, I was away when he come, She said she was willing to die that the Lord let her live to see her baby again and had taken care ot him through all these years~

“My rather‘ s name was Peter Warren and my mother was named Adelaide

Warren. Before she was married she went by her owner‘ s na~, Hickman. My daddy belonged to the Phillips but he didn‘t go in their names He went in

the Warren‘s naine. He did that because he liked theni. Phillips was his real father, but he sold him to the Warrena and he took their name and kept it~ They treated him nice and he just stayed on in their naxne~ He didn‘t marry till after both of them were free, He met her somewheres away from the Hi ckriian ‚ s G They marri od in Alabama,

“Mania was born and mostly reared in Virginia and then come to Alabama.

	s where I was born, in ama. And they left there and carne here ‚ I was four years old when they come here.

	“I never did hear what my father did in slavery time, He was a twin. The mo at he took not ice of he said was hi s brother and him sett in‘ on an old three~1egged stools And his mother had left some soft soap on the fire,