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	“Master Patent George died and Mistress Hester married Mr. Lam, while slaves kept working at the rolling mills and amassing greater wealth for the George families.

	“F1‘re years before the outbreak of the Civil ~Var Mistress Hester called all the slaves together and gave us our freedom. Courtne~r, n~r grandmother, kept house for Mistress Lorainne and wanted to stay on, so I too was kept at the George home. There was a ~inoere friendship as great as the tie of blood between the wt~ite family and the slaves. L~r mother married a negz~‘oex-slave of Ford George and bore children for him. Her )~ealth failed and when Mistress Puss, the oiiiy daughter of Mistress Lorainne, learned she was ill she persuaded.

the Negro man to sell his ~roperty and bring Eliza back to live with her.“ “~:thy are you called George Fordxnan when your narre is Ford George?“

was the question asked the old man.

~?	“lhen the Freedsmen started teaching school in K~ntucky the census


taker called to enlist me as a pi~pil. “~«that do you call this child?‘ he asked Mistress Lorainne. ‘We call him the Little Captain because he carried himself like a soldier,‘ said Mistress Lorainne. ‘He is the son of my husband and a slave wcman but we are rearing him.‘ Mistress Lorainne told the stranger that I had been named Ford George in derision and he suggested she list me in the census as George Fordsn~.n, which she did, ‘but she never allowed me to attend the Freedmen‘s School, desiring to keep me with her own children and let me be taught at home. ~r mother‘s half brother, Patent George alloi~ved his name to be reversed to George Patent when he enlisted in the Union Service at the outbreak of the Civil War.“

	Some customs prevalent in. the earlier days were described by George Fordrnan. ~it W~S customary to conduct a funeral differently than it is conducted now,“ he said. “I remember I was only six years old when old Mistress Ïester Laiti passed on to her eternal rest. She was kept out of her grave several