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tD pervide a weddin‘ for her. Ï knows ‘boutdat ‘cause ~ et

	~	of dat barbecue. Dat‘s all I ~‘members ‘bout her weddin‘. Ï done forgot de name of de bridegroom. He lived on some other ~1~ntation. Aunt ‘Liza bad two gals arid one boy. lie was r~3nied Allen.

“Whilst Marse Alec was President or soraej4n,
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je ~ot sick and Ii&d to canie back home, and it w8rn‘t long E:tter dat ‘fore de surrender. Allen w~is ‘pinted to watch for de blue costs. ~ When de~ corne to teke ~arse Alec off, dey was ~1l over the place wid deir guns. Us Niggers hollered arid c~~ied and tuk on pow‘ful ‘cause us sho thought dey was gwine to kill him on account of riis bein‘ such a high up man on de side what dey was fightiri‘. All de Niggers followed ‘ein to ~e depot when dey tuk Liarse Alec and Uncle Pierce away. Dey ~~eDt 21iarse Alec in orison off somewhar a long tinie but dey sont
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ierce hack home ‘fore long.

“I seed. JeffDavis when dey brung him through

awfordville on de train. Dey had. him all fastened up wid
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chains. D~y told me dat a Nigger ‘oman put pizen in Jeff Davis‘ sonaepi~ri t‘eat and dat was what kilt him. One thing sho, our i~erse Alec warn‘t pizened by nobody. he was com.in‘ from de neid one dsy when e big old heavy gate fell down on him, and even if he did live a long time atterwards dat was what was de cause of his death.

“1 seed Uncle fierce ‘fore he died. and us sot

~nd talked ~nd cried ‘bout Marse Alec. Yessura, us sho did have