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~e, I wari~‘t even studyin‘ nothiu‘ ‘bout leavin‘ ~arse Alec, bL~t Sarah Ann and aunt ~ary, ~ey tiarcwed do~n deir hoes and ~sf whooped and hollered ‘cause dey was so glad. ~iien dem
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~ come to our place ~amrcy Mary axed ‘em if dey warn‘t tired of wer. ‘vrLî~t does you know ‘bout no war?‘ Dey axed

:~&r right back. ‘No, us won‘t never ~it tired of dom‘ good.‘ “1 stayed on wid irly two good Merster~s ‘tu most
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:: 3Tearsatterc1~!.rJ~r, and den went to wuk for ù~arse Tye ~1der

:~~n ~rawfordvil1e. Atter dat I wuked for Miss Puss King, and ~~‘~en she 1e~ft ‘~rawfordvil1e I corae on here to Athens and wuked for Miss Tildy Upson on ~rince ~venue. DenIwentto~t1anta

~	C probab1y~~jg~~) s Miss Ruth was 9~ niece of abraham Lincoli~‘s. lier father was President
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Lincoln?s brotuer and. he was a i~iethodist preacher what lived in

~iIpack, New York. I went evvywiiar wid i~1iss Ruth. When me end

~	Ruth ~s in. Philadelphia, .~- got sick and she sont me home

t~ ~tnens ~mnd I dDne been here wid my c.aughter ever since.

“Lawdy, Missl I ain‘t never been married, but

I did live wid Major i~aker 1~ years and us had five chillun.Dey
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is ei? dai~d but two. Niggers didn‘t pay so much ‘tention to

~‘:;ttjn‘ riarried deni days es dey does now. I stays here wid ray gEll, Ida l3aker. My son lives in ~1evel8nd, Qhio. My fust child was borned when I warntt but 14 years old. De war ended in April and she was borned in November of dat year. Now, Miss2 I ain‘t never t-~ld but one white ‘oman who her ~a wcs, so you needn‘t start axin‘ me nothin‘ ‘bout dat. She had done been walkin‘ evvyw~ar ‘fore sne died when she was jus‘ 10 months old
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