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“Miss, my name Is David Goodman Gullins. I was born in

1854 on the 27th day of December, in ?utnaia County, about 3~ miles from Eatonton, on the Greensboro Road~. I was born in slavery, my father and mother being owned by Mr. T.W. Mappin. ~Marse Mappin was not a large slave holder, since heonly had about thirty-five slaves, but h~ was what we call a ‘coming man“ • I do not remember how much land he wn, but nothing like some ot the very wealthy land and slave owners. My owner was a comparat ive ly young men ‚ say middle aged ‚ we igiling about 190 pounds, with a fairly good education and withall a first rate man•

•~9~y earliest recollection of him was his pertect1~y bald head. It looked like a peeled onion. He married a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson ‚ who had two SOUS ; one who was 3udge Thomas G. Lawson of the Ocraulgee Circuit, and Zurat Lawson, who was killed in the war. My owners were very good to their slaves.

	My	‘ s name was 301m Mappin . He of course went by the none of the owner. My mother‘s name was Catharine. She was bought from an owner b~ the name of Milline by my master, skid she became Catharine Mappin . I know nothing of their lives ‚ their childhood ‚ their struggles ‚ hardships ‚ etc . ‚ ~nd where they ce~ from. There were eleven boys and one girl in our family, I being the third oldest boy born. Three brothers born after me died in intanoy~. My mother raised only five of her sous to manhood, and my sister is still living in Zatonton, Ga. She is Gracie Roby.

I have one brother still living, W.R. Gullins, a minister. He is somewhere in North Carolina • When this brother was born ‚ Mistress had a lot of company, and ail the ladies wanted to n~ the new