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Archie ~oritz, Field Worker
Federal Writers‘ Project
Lake County - D±strict #1
Gary, Indiana


	“lvtahstah Everett whipt me onct and mothah she cried. Then Mahstah Everett say, ‘Why yoh all cry? ~ Yoh cry I whip anothah of these young uns. She try to stop. He whipt tnother. f~e say, ‘lin yoh all don‘ stop, yoh be whipt toot ‚ and rnothah she trien to stop but teahs roll out, so Mahstah Everett whp her too.

	“I wanted to visit rnothah when I belong to Mahst‘ Et~banks, but Becky say, ‘Yoh all best not see youh inothah, or yoh wan ~ to go all de time‘ then explaining, ‘she wan‘ nie to fohgit niothah, but I nevah could. When I ein back from d‘ abniy, I go home to mothah and say ‘don‘ y‘ know me?‘ She say, ‘No, I dont lrnovi you.‘ I say, tyoh don‘ know me?‘ She say, ‘No, ah don‘ know yoh.‘ I say, Itse ;J-obn.‘ Den she cry and say how ahd growd and she thought I‘se daid dis long time. I done ‘splain how the many fights Itse in wit no scratch and she bein‘ happy.“

	Speaking of Abraham Lincoln‘s death, he remarked, “Sho now, ah remembah dat well. We all feelin‘ sad and all d‘ soldiers had wreaths on der guns.“

	Upon his return from the army he married a young negress he had seen some time previous at which time he had vowed so~ne day to make her his wife. He was married Christmas day, 1866. For a nwnber of years he lived on a farm of his own near Glasgow. Inter he moved with his family to Louisville where he worked in a lumber yard. In 1923, two years after‘the death of his wife, he came to Gary, when he retired. ~e is now living with his daughter, Mrs. Sloss, 2713 Harrison Boulevard, Gary.



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