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S~bjOCt _~ SlaV€ memories ~- Birth, Mother ‚Father, Separation  Houe

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The first thins I remember was living with my mother about six

miles from Scott‘s Cros8ing in Arkansas, about the year 1866. I

know it was 1866 becaùse it was tIie year after the surrender, arx~

we kno~v the surrender was in 1865. I kno~v the dates after 1866. You don‘t know nothin‘ when you don‘t know dates. If you get up In court anu say soinethin‘, the lawyers ask you when lt happened and then they ask you where did it happen, and if you can‘t tell thern~ ‚ they say “Witness is excused. You don‘t know nothin‘.“
	Mother and Father.	~	-~
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Ply rncther was born in North Carolina inMaeklthbergin Hen-i

derson County. I don‘tbknow when she came ~o Arkansas. and I don‘t know when she went to Tennessee.

	MY father ‘sas born Iii Tennessee. I don‘t know the county 1i~ I did in North Carolina. I don‘t know the town either, but I think it was in the rurals somewhere~ The white folks separated fly mother and father when I was a little baby in thd.r arms. The people to whom r~y father belonged stayed in Tennessee, but my mother ‚ s people came to Arkans as . It mus t have been al ong in the tIme of the war that they corne to Ar&ansas.

Dw e I 1 ing

	My mother lived in a log house chinked with wood chinks. The

Thj~ information given by ~1lza ~ffashir~ton, 151? West Sevent~enth ) L Ft~~ I e ito~ Ax‘kak~ s~ ~-
Place of Resjdenoe

Occupation ~ and Ironing( When able )  ~ ~ Age About 77