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OHIO COU3~TY ~-sL~v:E, ~RS • ELIE~T CAVE, Ri~L~ThS ~R EXP~~RIIiNCES

Ref. (Â) ‘Assistant editor of ‘tThe Rising Sun Recorder“ furnished the,. f0llowing story which had appeared in the pa-~:;er, )~arch 19, 1937.

	Mrs. Cave was th slavery for tvielve years before she was freed by the EmancipatiOfl Proclamation. When she gave her story to Aubrey Robinson she was living in a tempo rary garage borne back of the Ri sing Sun courthouse having lost everything in the 1937 flood.

	1~:rs. Cave was born on a plantation in Taylor County Kefltucky. She was the property of a man who did not live up to the popular idea of a Southern gentleman, whose slaves refused to leave them, even after their freedom was declared.

	V/hen she was a ye&r old. her mother was sold to someone in Louisana and she did not see her again until 1867, when they were re-united in Carrolton, Kentuôlcy. Her father died when she was a baby.

	Mrs.Cave told of seeing wagon 1oa~is of slaves sold down the river. She, herself was put on the block several times but never actually sold, although she would have preferred being sold rather than the continuation of the ordeal of the block.

~	Her master was a “mean man“ vtho drank heavily, he had twenty slaves

~	that he fed now and then., and gave her her freedom after the war only when

~	she would remain silent about it no longer. He -was a Sout them syTnpath‘

~	iser but j oined the Union army where he became a ca~tai~i and was in charge

~	of1~ a Union comm1ssary~ Pinally he was suspected and .~charged with mustering

I~pph1es to the rebels~ Be was imprisoned for some time, then courtmartia1~. laud sentenced to die. He escaped by bribing his negro guard.
~:. ~ Mrs. Cave said that her master‘s father had many young women slaves

[and~ sold his own half-breed children down the river to Louisiana p1antation~ ~ the work was so serere that the slaves soon died.
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~	In slavery, iLt‘s. Care worked aa a m3~id ifl tiLe house untU she 1i~~
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