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	Joiephine Anderaon
	Taipa, florida
	October ~Q, 1937
	Jules A. Froat



HANTS

	“I kamt t.ii notkzin bout alav,q tiau cept w1~at I biar.d folks talk about. I ~e too young to rm~mbar ~riuch but I reclsck ~ ee in my gra7w~ milk d• ‚ows *n do do w*ehin . Granpa ~aa old ‚ an dey let hirn do 1ig1~it work, mos1~ fieh an hunt.


	‘SI cloan member nothin bout my daddy. H. died wkiin I ~ai a baby. My atepfather w~ ~teph.n Andsreon, an iq iu~n~a naas ~e Dorcae ~ He come f um Yajinny ‚ but my ~~uy wa~ borned an r~ ie ed in ~ii1min~tofl. My name ~e Josephine And.r~on fore I i~arried Willie Jonei. I had two ha1f~brothers youngerzi me, John Henry an I~d, an a halt«aiiter, JïZLii~. De boya had to aind 4. ca1~ee an eh.epa, an ±~1sie nursed de miø~ue‘ baby. I done de cookin, moi», an helpid my maiany apin.


	NI was ony five year o34 when dey brung me to $ander8on, in Baker Cotmty, florid*. My itopfather went to work for a turpentine man, m~kin barre1~, an he work at dat job till he drop dead in de cauip. I reckon h. inuata kiad hoart d~eaee.


	‘$1 doan recleak ever eseln my ‘~mmy wear shoes. i~ven in de wint•r skie go barefoot, an I reckon cold didn‘t hurt her feet no moron h•r hands an face. ~e all wore dre~ae. mad• o‘ homeepun, D thread wa~ spun an de cloth wove right in our own home. My m*my an granmaiziny an me done it in spare tia•.