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by her mother who had been separated from her husband and. sold in Georgia. Mr . Hale never had. the occasion to • sell any of those s1a~es that he held.

	Mrs. McDaniel remembers nothing o±~ the talk that transpired between the slaves or her owners at the beginning of the war. She says: “I was a

little girl, and like the other children then, I didr~ have as much ser~se
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as the children of today who are of the age that I was then. 1 do r~nernber

that my master moved somewhere near Macon, Georgia after General Wheeler marched through. I believs that he did raore damage ththi the Tanks did. then they came throigh. When n~y master moved us along with his family we had to go out of the way a great deal because General Wheeler had destroyed all of the bridges. Besides this he damaged a great deal of the property that he passecL11 Continuing, Mrs. McDaniel said: “I dIÔ.II‘.t see any of the fighting but I did, hear the firing of the cannons. I also saw any number of Confederate soldiers pass by our place . ‚ Mr. Hale &±&~!I$ join the army althoi~gh his oldest son did.

	At the time that the slaves were freed it meant nothing in particular to Mrs. McDaniel, who says that she was too young to pay much attention to what was happening. She never saw her fa~ther after they moved away from Wat— sonville. At afly rate she and her mother remained in the service of Mr. Hale for a number of years after the war. In the cot~rse of this tims Mr. Hale grew to be a wealthy man. lie continued to ~e good to those servants who remained with him. After she was a crown woman Mrs. McDaniel left Mr. Hale as she was then married.

	Mrs. McDaniel says that she has reached such an old age because she has always taken care of herself, which is more than the yo~n~ people of today are doing ‚ ehe added as an aft er thought.