Interviewer Person interviewed ~ About 74 —-----I-- -- - ~ -U---~_.~ ~ • ~W ~ ~ ~ ~ — ~- — . ~. — — - — 4m— ~•r~- ~ Alice Wr~ßt ~ ~ —- ~ ~ - 2418 ~nter Street, Little Rock, Aricansas “I was born way yonder in slavery time. I don‘t know what part of Alabama nor exactly when, but I was born in slavery time and it was in Alabama. My oldest boy would be fifty-six years old if he were living, father said he was born in slavery time and that I was born in slavery time. I was a baby, my papa said, when he ran off from his old master and went to Mississippi. He lived in the thickets for a year to~Ic~eep his old n~aster from finding out where he was. . S Father, Mother and Family “My father‘s name was Yeff Williams. He‘s been dead a long time, Nobody living but ins and i~y children. My mother ‚ s name was Malinda Williams. My father had seven children, four girls and five boys. the boys were buried on the Cuimuins (?) place. It used to be the of old Man Flournoy‘s. My oldest brother waa natned Isaac. RI had sixteen children; tour of them are still living-—two boys and two girls. The boys is married and the daughters is sick. No, honey, I can‘ t tell how many of em all was boys and girls. House “My folks lived right in the white folks‘ yard. I don‘ t know what kind of house it was. My mother used to cook and do for the white folks~ She caught her death of cold going backward • and forward milking and 80 on. My Four of old place 30956