2. 86 Uncle Tom and Uncle Œranville raised wheat out in Texas. They didn‘t have no overBear but they said. they worked harder ‘an ever they done in their lives, ‘fore or ainceG “My father went to war with his master. Captain zones served ‘bout three years I judge. My father went as his waiter. He got enough of war, he said. “Captain B:. Campbell Tones had a wife ‚ Miss Aune ‚ and no children. I seen mighty near enough war in Texas. They tit there. Ye8 xna‘am, they did. I seen soldiers in Greenville, Texas. I seen the cavalry there. They looked so fine. Prettie8t horses I ever seen. “Freedoms Master Campbell tones come to us and aaid, ‘You free this morning. The war I s over.‘ It been over then 1~xt travel was slow. ‘You all can go back home, I‘ll take you, or you can go root hog or die.‘ We all got to gatherin‘ up our belongings to corne back home. Tired of no wood neither, b6sides that hard. work. We all share cropped with Captain R. Campbell Jonea two years. I know that. We got plenty wood without going five or six miles like in Texas. After freedo~n folks got to changing ‚ bout to do botter I reckon. I been farxain‘ right here all my lite. We didn‘t have a lot to eat out in Texas neither. Mother was a farm woman too. “I never seen a Ku Klux. Bad Ku Klux sound sorter like good Santa Claus. I heard ‚ em say it was real. I never seen rie ither one. “Ididowntenacreso~land. lownahornenow. “My father drove a grub wagon f~r~n Memphis to Lost Swamp Bottotn...-.n.ear Ethnondson-~when they built this railroad through here. “Father never voted. I have voted several times.