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	Person interviewed	EmrneljneWaddllle (~pceased) ~ •
		  Lonoke Coimty, Arkansas
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	~he immigrated with her owner, L. W. C Wacidille, to Lonoke County in 1851, coming to Hickory Plaina and then to Brownsville. They moved from Rayburn, Georgia in a covered wagon drawn by oxen.

	She lived with a great.-~granddaughter, Mrs. ~Tohn High, seven miles north of Lonoke, until 1932, when she died. She had nursed six generations of ~the Ïiaddille family. She was born a deàf~nute but her hearing and speech were restored m~y years ago when 1i~htenin~ struck a tree under which she was standing.

	Ermueline told of how they would stop for the night on the rough journey, and while the men fed the stock, the women and slaves would cook the evening meal of hoecake, fried venison, and coffee. The women slept in the wagons and the men would sleep on the creek watching for wild life. Y~ith other pioneers, they suffered all the hardships and dangers incident to the settling of the new country more than three$ourths of a century ago.

	Enmieline always had good care. She worked hard and fa1th~-. fully and was amply rewarded.