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ii~x-S1ave ~ A~e 76


	It was a bright sunny day when the interviewer stojped at the home of Aunt Merry, as she is called, and found her tending her o1d~‘.fashioned flower garden. The old Negress was tired and while resting she talked of days long passed and of how things have changed since she was “a little gal.“

	“My pa wuz William Young, and he belonged to old Marse Wylie Young and later to young Marse Mack Young, a son of old inarster. Pa wuz. born in 1841, and he died in 1918.

	“Ma wuz Lula Limpkin,and she belonged to Marse 3~ack Luxripkin. I forgits de year, but she wuz jus‘ 38 years old when she died. Ma‘s young rnistis wuz Miss Mirriam Luznpkin, and she wuz sho‘ good ter my ma. I ‘members, ‘cause I seed her lots of times. She married Marse William Nichols, and she ain‘t been dead many years.

	‘II wuz born at Steebens (Stephens), Georgia, in 1862 at

seben ‘clock in de mornint on de 27th day of April. Yassum, I got

here in time for breakfast. Dey named me Mirriam Young. When I

wuz ‘bout eight years old, us moved on de Bowling G~‘eenroad dat runs

to Lexin‘ton, Georgia. Us stayed dar ‘tu I wuz ‘bout 10 years old, ~

den us moved to de old Hutchins place. I wukked~ in de field wid my J

pa ‘ti]. I wuz ‘bout ‘leben years old. Den ma put me out to wuk. I

viukked for 25 dollars a year and my schoolint . Den I nussed for ~.
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Marse George Rice in Hutchins, Georgia. 1 think ~arse George and

his twin sister stays in L6XIfl‘ ton now. When I wuz twelve, I went to wuic for Marse John I. Callaway. ~a hired me for de carne pay, 25 dollars a year and my schoolin‘.