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She is dom in ~xas aomewhorea now~ They taken her from old lady Sterling‘ a place. She give them to her aon~ and he carried them down In ~exaa. i~e had a broken leg and never did go to the war, If he did, I never knowed nothing

about it.

“None of the masters never give n~ anything. None of them as I knows

of never give anything to any of the 81av0s when they treed ‘em. Never give a devilish‘ thing, Told them that they was free as they was and that they could stay there and help them make crops if they wanted to0 The b1g~est part of thei~ stayed0 The rest went away0 Their husbands taken them

away.

WRight after the war my mother married an old ~el1ow who used to be old

Holbert‘s nigger driver. He stayed on Sterling‘s place one night, He stayed there a year, Then he married my mother and went to old Holbert‘s place and of course, we had to go too. I stayed there and worked for him And my mena too and the two youngest sisters and the youngest brother stayed. With me. I run away frcaa him in ‘86. 1 went down the railroad about five miles and an old colored fellow give n~ a job. He used to belong to the railroad boss.

ni worked nearly two years on that railroad; then I left and come on

down to Arkansas~, I have been right here on this spot about forty yeara~ I don‘t know how long it is been since I first cone here, but it is been a long time ago. I paid fire Insurance on this place for thirty—nine years. I lived over the river before I coś to North Little Rock0 I worked tor the

railroad company thirty—eight years. It‘ a been fifteen years since I was able to work—~ybe longer.

“I belong to Little Bethel Qrnrch (A. M. L) here in North Little Rook.

I been a ~mber of that church more than thirty~five years.