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SUSAN MCINTOSH
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	A driving rain sent the interviewer scurrying into the house of Susan Mcintosh who lives with her son, Dr. Andrew Jones, at the corner of Hancock Avenue arid ~i11ups Street.

	Susan readily gave her story: “They tell irie .1 was born i.n November i85i,“ she said, “and I know 1tv6 been here a long time ‘cause I‘ve seen so many come and go. I‘ve outlived ‘most all of my folks ‘cept my son that I live with now. Honey, I‘ve ‘most forgot about slavery days. I don‘ t read, and anyway there am‘ t no nee~ to think of them times now. I was born in Oconee County on Judge William Stroud‘s plantation. Vie called him Marse ~il1y. Th~t was a long time before Athens was the county seat. Ma‘ s name was• Mary Jen, arid Pa was Christo~pher Harris. They called him Chris for short. Marster Young L. G. Harris bought him from Marster Hudson of ~lbért County and turned hirn over to his niece, Miss ILlla Harris, when she r~arried Marster i~obert Taylor. Marse Robert was a son of General Taylor what lived in the Grady house before it belonged to Mr. tienry Grady‘ s mother . Pa was coachman and house boy for Miss Lula.

	“Marse Billy owned Ma, and Marse Robert owned Pa, and Pa, he come to see i~ia about once or twice a month. The Taylor‘ s, they done a heap of travellin‘ and aiways took my Pa with ‘ein. Oh! there jas thirteen of us chillun, seven die4 s~oon after they wa8 born, and none of ‚ em lived to gi t grown ‚ cept me • The ir name s was Nane tte and ~lla, what was next to ne; Susan — thats me; Isabelle, Martha, Mary, Jiana, Lila, William, Gus, and the twins what was born dead; and Harden. He wa~ named for a Dr. Harden what lived here then.