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changed their surname to Gullatt as they liked that better. Arne was among the oldest of nine children. The night she was born the stork brought a little baby girl to the home of a white ~a~jj~j~ust across the creek from the Syberts. The little white girl was na~ied Anne so “Miss Peggy“ named the little new black baby girl Arne, and that is how it happened she was given such an odd name.

	Arne said she was “15 er 16 years old when the war broke (1865), I wuz ‘big enough to be lookin‘ at boys an‘ dey lookin‘ at me.“ She remembers the days of war, how when the battle of Atlanta was raging they heard the distant rumble of cannon, an4 how “upsot“ they al1w~rß~Çrrer ~.ster died of “the consumption“)
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~	during the war. She recalls how hard it was after his death.
~	The 3yberts had no children and there was no one to turn to after
~	his death. Arne tells of her i~a~ter‘s illness, how she was
~	the housemaid and was called upon to fan him and how she would

~	get so tired and sleepy she would noda little, the fan dropping

!~ froni hands into his face. Be would take it up and “crack my

~	haid with the handle to wake me up. I wuz allus so sorry when

~I~one that, but I jest had ter nod.“

	She told about how bad the overseers were and the trouble they gave until finally “old l~i~ss turned off ther one she had an‘ put my Pa in his place to manage things and look after the work.“ Arne was never punished, (not any more than having her head cracked by her Master when she nodded while fanning him.) “No rn.aa, not none of our niggers wuz whipped. ~Thy I