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i~atus ~T~isa ‚ 1~-alave
	Place or Birth:		Chapel Bill, North Carolina
	]~te cEt Birth :		Apparently ‚ between 1825 and 1830
	?reaent residence :	•	Near VaugtL ‚ Georgia
			On Yarm of 1fr. W. M. Parker
	Interviewed :		&ugttst 18 ‚ 1936

Raatuß Jones, born th~e slave prGperty of }~r, Sidney 3OE~es, a

North Carolina: planter, is a very old z~, probably between 107 arid 110 years o~ age • ILls earli eBt n~mory is that of the

“Falling Stars ‚ „ the mcst brilliant display, perhaps ‚ of the Leoiilds ever recorded, that of Novetnber 12 ~ 13, 1833, which establishes his age as being in excess o~f 103 years.


“Ui~1e“ Rasttis states that the ~roneB~ere good to their slaves

-~gave them elothlx]g e&eh spring and t&fl ‚ issued thent shoes as needed, ted them well, • and tur~ished them nisd.toal attention when

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The Negro ohi~dren ax~d white children played together and the lite o~ tiLe slave ~a u~ua11y happy and cars-fres. At Christmas tinLe, the slaves were always r~vi~thered by thefr itaaters with gltts.


The J~onaa family owned about twsnty$iir, Negroea ~ ‚ 8O1n~ yO8~B prior to the Civil War, moved to~ Desoto Gounty, Mississippi,
taking their ~ alaves With theni, all n~king the trip in wagc~ta.