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Person Interviewed Aunt C1ar~ Walker Aged 111

110111e “F1QtV~OOd.S“ ~ et ‚~ Garland County. Own property.


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Story by Aunt Clara Walker


	“You‘ll have to wait a nilnute xnatain. Dis cornbread can‘t go down too f‘as‘. Yes rna‘ani, I likes cornbread. I eats it every nieal. I wouldn‘t trade just a little cornbread ror all de flour dat is.

	‚	Where~bouts was I born ? I Was born right here in A;rkansas. Dat is it was between an on de b-orders ot it an dat state to de south-~--~-yes ma~e~, dat ‘s right,

~ Louisiana, MY mother was a slave before me. She come over fron de old country. She was a~runnint along one day front of a ~a-~-~ dat stripedy anixaal~-a tiger? an‘ a man come along on an elephant and scoop her up ant put her on a ship.

	Yes ma‘am. ~y name‘s Clara Walker. I was born Clara J‘~ones, cause niy pappy‘s name was Jones. But lots of folks called nie Clara Cornelius, cause Mr • Cornelius was

de man what owned nie. Did you eve~ hear of a child born wid
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a ~il over its face? Well I was one of dem ! What it mean ?
~Vhy it means dat you can see spirits an‘ ha‘nts, an all de