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for us. They was coarse and rough, but they lasted a long time.

	“My Marster was father-in-law of Dr. Jones Long. Marse Billy‘s wife, Miss Rena, died long before I wa~ born. Their six children was all grown when I first knowed ‘em. The gals was:

Mi s s i~e na ‚ Mi s s Se le na ‚ is s Li za ‚ and Mi s s Su san • Mi s s Su san was Dr. Long‘s wife. I was named for her. ~ There was two boys; Marss John and Marss Mark. I done told you ‘bout Marss Mark bein‘ a dwarf. They lived in a big old eight room house, on a high hill in sight of Mars Hill )~aptist Church. (~arse Billy was a great deacon in that church. Yes, V~am, he she‘ was good to tus Negroes. I heard ‘em say that after he had done bought his slaves by working in a blackst~ith shop, and wearin‘ cheap clothes, like mulberry suspenders, he warn‘ t goin‘ to slash his Negroes up • The older folks admired. M±st‘ess and spoke well of her. They said she had lots more property than Marse Billy. She said she wanted Marse Billy to see that her slaves was give to her children. I ‘spose there was about a hundred acres on that plantation and Marss Billy owned more property besides. There was about fifty grown folks and as to the children, I just don‘ t know how many there was. Around the quarters looked like a little town.

	“Marse Billy had a overseer up~to the time War broke out, then he picked out a reliable colored man to carry out his orders. Sometimes the overseer got rough, then Marss ~illy let him go and got another one . The overseer got u~ up about four or five o‘clock in the morning, and dark brought us in at night.

	“J‘ails‘. Yes, Ma‘ám, I ricollect one was in Watkinsville. No, Ma‘am, I never saw nobody auctioned off, but I heard