Slavos 1.n I~LadIeori ~‘ounty	2. j6
Carl L~~oone


gFeat ~raridfathor of OflO child. I came with my wife, now decesed, tO indiana, in 189I~ and now reside at 801 West 1Z~t1i street In Jtht1OX~8OT), -Litdlana. I w~ born a free inn, fifteen years before the clo~ft) Of the Clvii ~ar. All. the eolor~d lolk on plr31)tI~tio~t8 and iiirit~a around our plarittitiolA WOrC s:L~ives aiid most oi‘ them w‘ro terribly 18Li‘WILOd by their masters.

	After comtrÀ~ t~o Indiari&~, I furmed for a fe~ yea~s, then moved to Anc1er~on. I became coniiedLed with t}-~ Colored ~atbolic Churc1~ ~irid ~)L1VO tried to live n Christian life. Ï hi~ve oiily mi~sed church ~orv1ce twice in twenty yours. I lost my dear wife thirteen years ‘~~:;° ~n~i I now live witi my son.

	My fat~or, Stephen ~oono, was born In kary~nad, in 1800. He wus bou,~ht by a nIgger buyer while a boy and wa~i sold to Miley ~ In ~ariori County, 1~entucky. Father was what they ueed to call“a picked slave,“ wa~ a good worker aflU was neVer iu*streated by his ma~tor. ~ married my mother in 1825, and they hiid eighteen chi1dred~. ~astor Miloy ~ save fatiur and nxther Xheir freedom In 1829, and save thorn forty acres of land to tend as their own. He paid father for all the (~x~ he did for hirn after that, and wae always vory kInd to them.

	My mother was born In slavery, In Marion County, Kentucky, in 1U02. ~he Was treated very mean until ehe married ni~y faLlier in 1825. With hIm ehe gained her freedom in 1829. I was the last born of hr sighteen children. She wasa good woman and joined church after

; OOtflifl~Ç to Indiana and died ir~ 1917, 1IvIri~ç to be one hundred and ~ fifteen years old.

	I havt~ heard my mother tell of a gi2~1 slave who worked In the kitchen of uiy mother‘s master. The girl waa told to cook twelve eggs