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FORM C


Te~tof Interview (Uned~ited4


STAT.~‘-~Arkans as

i~A1i~ OF WO1~K~R--Sanflte1 Z. Pa~1or	. ADDR~sS~-L1~~e Bock, Arkansas

DATE-—December ‚ 1938 sUBJEC!L~Ex—s1ave

i~Â~ AND ADDRESS OF I~~RMANT-~-Mary Watson, 1500 Cross Street, Little Rock.


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	“My mother and father were McCoys. Eis name was Abram and her name was Louise. My mother di~1 right here when Brewer was Pastor of Wesley. You ought to ren~inber her. 1~y ~nother died. in 1928. My father died. in 1897 when Joe Sherrill was pastor. Joe Sherrill went to Africa, you. know. He was a missionary.

	“My mother was owned. by Bill Mitchell. He came from Alabama. I can‘t call the name of the town, just now. les, I can; it Was Tuscaloosa. My father caine from Sou~th Carolina. McCoy was his owner. But how corne him to l€ave South Carolina 1~ was sold. after his master died. and. the property was divided. He was sold awa~r from his family. He had a large family ~ abowt nine children. My mother was sold away from her mother too. She was little and couldn‘t help herself. My grandma did~n‘t want to come. i~nd sbe managed not to; I don‘t know how she managed it.

	“Before freedom my father was a farmer. My mother was a farmer too. My ~other wasn‘t so badly treated. She was a slavebut she worked right a1on~ with the white children. She had t~ brothers. The other sister stayed with her mother. She was sold —— my mother‘s mother. Btit I don‘t know to whom.