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time after the War, I heard ‘em say he got killed. I lcnowed Mr. Jeff. Davis was rresident of the Confederacy. As for 3ooker Waehington, I never saw him ‚ but I heard his son whe n he was here once and gave a musical of some sort at the Congregational Church.

	.	“I was a old gal when I rnarrièd ‘bout thirty or forty years after the War. I i~.rried George Mcintosh. Wedding clothes~“ she chu~k1ed, and said: “I didn‘ t have n~any. I bought ~em second hand from Mrs. Ed. 3ond. They was niee though. The dress I married in was red ~il.k. We had a little cake and wine; no big to do, just a little fambly affair. Of our four chillun, ~ two died young, and two lived to git grown. ~J daughter was a school teacher and she ha3 been dead soiietime. I stays wid my only living child.. My husban‘ died a long time ago. .

	“I cooked and washed for Mr. Pri~ice Hodgson for thirty years. Miss Mary Franklin used to tell nie ‘bOut all them strange places she had been to while, she was paintin‘ . There never was no~ ôody in this town could paint prettier pictures than Miis Mary‘s.

	“I‘m glad slavery is over. I‘m too old tO really work anymore, but I‘m like a fish. going down the crick and if he sees a bug he will catch hirn if he can.

	“I joined the church ~cause I believe in the Son 0±‘ God. I know he is a forgiving God, and will give. me a place to rest after I am gone from the earth. ~verybody ought to tpare for the ~romised land, where they can live always after they are done with this world.“ .

	After the interview, she said:	‘~Koney, this is the most I have talked about slavery days in twelve ye~rs~ a~d I believe what I told .you 18 right. Of coures, lote has faded from my mind about it now.“
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