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	“Present times i~ tougher now than betoro it come on. Things not going 1 ike it ought somehow. We wants more pension. Us old tolks needs a good living ‘cause we ain‘t got mach more time down here.

	“Present generation~.they are s1ack~..I means they slack on their pareflt8, don‘t see after them. They can get faim work to do. They waste their money more than they ought. Soene tolks purty nigh hungry. That is for a I~act the way it is coing.


~&nondson, Arkansas

	“Master Henry ~dmondson owned all the land to the Chatfield place to Lehi, Arkansas. He owned four or five thousand acres of land. It was bottoms and not cleared, They had floods then., rode around in boats some~ times. Colored folks could get land throtigh Andy Fleimaing f~olored man]. Mr. Henry Edmondson and whole family died with the yellow fever. He had 8everal chi1dren~Miss Emma, Henry, and Will I knowed. It is probably his father btu~ied at far side of this town. A rattlesnake bit him. Lake Rest or Scantlin was a boat landing and that was where the nearest white folks lived to the Edraondsons. I worked for Mr. Henry Edmondson, the one died with yellow fever. He was easy to work for. Laud wasn‘t cleared out niuch. He was here before the Civil War. Good many people, in fact all over there, died of yellow fever at Indian Mound. Me azid my brother waited on white folks all throu~i that yellow fever plague. Very few colored folks had it. None of ‘em I heered tell of died with it. White folks died in piles. Now when the smallpox raged the colored folks had it seem like heap more and harder than white folks. ~nallpox used to rage every few years. It break out and spread. That is the way so many colored folks come to own land and why it was named Edniondson. Named for Master Henry--Edmondson, Arkansas.