Ex- Slave Stories
~ 5th Distriot .		page g. 44
VanderbUr&‘ County
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teepe with Buck and. during that time leaned. much about Indian habits.
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iThen Italvina was missed from her new home, ?Tr. taith went to the Gar~er

plantation to report hie loss, not finding her there a wid.e search was nade for her but the Indians kept her thoroughly,fipzaÇ~aled.. nies mass, however, kept IV!) the search. She Imew the Indianswereencempe~. ou the mountain arid belIeved. she would :tirt& the girl. with them. The Intie.z~s finally broke cama and the members of the Gardner home watched. them start
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m their journey and Miss Pass soon discovered Maivinaarnong the other
naidens in the procession.		.. . ...

I!he men of the Gcr&ner plantation ‚white and. black, overtook the Inäj,a~s in& demanded the girl be given up to them. The Indians reluctantly ‘gave er to them. ‚ I.tiss Puss Śardner tooc her.,,,back and. Mr. Gardner paid Mr. ‚ ~ Smith the original purchase price and Malvina Wasonce more ‚ installed in n old home.

ttalvina Gardner was not yet twelve years of age when she was captured by the IndianS and was scarcely thirteen years of age wheli ehe became the mother of Joseph ~?ifliam, son of the uncivil Indian, “B~ick“. The child Was born in the Gardner home and mother aM child remained there. The mother was 1,% good slave and ‚ loved the members of the Gartner family and her son and she ~‚ lOved by them in return.

	Gardner married. a itt‘. Mooney and ~r. Gardner ‘allowed her to take eph William to her home. The Mooney estate waa s‘i‘tuzatä& up on the Carth— idge road and. some of Joseph William‘s most vivid memories of slavery and Ourse of bondage embraoe his life‘s span with the MponeyC

	story that The aged man relates is of an encounter with an eagle ant ~ 41~ws: “.‘!YGeorge Irish, a white, boy near my own age, ‚was the son 6t thé
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‘lj	~ ~ ~5:1~~!! operated a sanill on B‘ledsoe Creek, üůr~ where‘ it emp~tiči K‘:A 1. L ; ~ ~ river. ‚ éeorô and :t ‚ often went fishing together id‘ ~
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