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hung pretty, ruffled ~thite curtains end a similar ruffled curtain was around the bottom of the bed; the curtains made pretty ornarnents. Slaves had beds of this general kind, but they warn‘t quite as pretty and fine. Corded springs were the go then. The beds used by most of the slaves in that day and time were called ‘Georgia beds,t and these were made by boring two holes in the cabin wall, and two in the floor, and side pieces were run from the holes in the wil to the posts and fastened; then planks were nailed around the sides and foot, box-fashion, to hold In the straw that we used for mattresses; over this pretty white sheets and plenty of juilts was spreaded. Yes, main, there was always plenty of good warm cover in those days. Of course, it was home-‘ade, all of it.

	“My grandfather was a blacksmith and farni~hand owned by Old Man Dillard Love. According to ray earliest recollection my grandmother Van Hook was dead and I have no memories about her. My great, great grandmother, Sarah Angel, looked after slave children while their mothers were ~t work. She was a free woman, but she had belonged to Marse Tommy Angel end Miss Jenny Angel; they were brother and sister. The way Granny Sarah happened to be free was; one of the women in the Angel family died ~nd left a little baby soon after one of Granny‘s babies was born, and so she was loaned to that family as wet nurse for the little orphan baby. they ~.ave her her freedom and took her into their home, because they did not want her sleeping in slave quarters ~iile she was nursing the white child. In that settlement, lt was considered a disgrace for a white child to feed.