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Person	interviewed L     ~ Waeh1ng~n~j~VaUeB~itf. Arkansae






	“My mother wa~ a slave and my father too I recken. They

belonged to Yack Waltoxi wban I rernmbered. I wae born at St. Charles.

My mother died in time of the war at St. Louis. This is whut I ra— members. My mother was sold twice. The Prices oined her and th• Wakeflelda owned her betors ehe was owned by old J‘ack Walton. I was the youngest child. I had one brother went to war and he drawed a pension long as he lived. We children all got scattered out. Mr.

Walton bout the age or my tather and he said some day all these fig— gara be set tree and warnt long fore they aho was0 I had one older sister I recollect mi~ity well. My mother named Fannie, my father named Abe Walton. He had a young master J‘eznes Walton.

	“When I was mithin but a chile I remembers J‘ainea dressed up like Ku Klux Klan and scared n~. The old master aho did i~ioop him bout that. They take care of the little black children and feed em good an don‘t let em do too hard er work to stunt em so they take em off and sell em for a good price.

	“I remembers the little old log house ay graz~P~ and granpa way back over on the place stayed in till they died. We went back after the war and lived ten years on the same place. We lived close to the white folks in a bigger house.