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	When freedom cAine there were sad tinies on the Sybert plantation, Arne said. “Old ~iss cried and cried, and all us cried too. Old Iliss said “Yoa‘al jest goin‘ off to perish~.‘ Aunt Jennie, one of the oldest women slaves stayed on with her and took keer of her, but all us stayed on a while. Us didn‘t know whar . to go an‘ what ter do, an‘ den corne Dr. Peters and 1fr. Allen frwn Arkansas to git han‘s to go out dar an‘ work fer dem. My Pa took his family and we stayed two years. It took us might nigh ir whole week to git dar, we went part way on de train and den rid de steam boat up de Mississippi River ter de landin‘. ~ worked in the cotton field out dar and done all kinds er work on de farm, but us didn‘t like an‘ Dr. Peters an~ ~r. Allen give i~ Pa money fer us ter conie home on. ‘Fore we could git started my oldest brother wanted to come borne so bad he jest pitched out and walked all de way frum arkansas to our old home in Georgy . We come back by Memphis and den come on hong. on de train. ~JYhen we wuz out dar I went to school an‘ got as far as ‘Baker‘. Dat‘s de only ~ I ever had~

	Aunt Arne told about her courthhip and marriage, she remembers all about it and grew rather sentimental and sad while sie talked. She said that Franklin Binns was going with her Lefore she went to live in Arkansas and when she came home he picked up the courtship where he had left off when she went away. He would ride 20 miles on horseback to see her. He brought her candy and nice things to eat, but she still wouldn‘t “give him no sa~gfactjon ‘bou.t whether she keered fer him er not .„ She said