~Virginia Tu].ley ~________________________________________________
	 Ft. W~rne Indiar~.	(2)
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the CivIl ~ar broke out • Mr5. Jackeon remenbers the excitemeni~and t}~E Œ~rt1ing ariigoing. Grad ally the fanily lost its wealtl, the home wa~i broken up. evexythin~ was de~troyedby the arnie3. Then came free.. dom far the slaves. But Mrs. Jackson stayed onwith the master for a~d~i1e. After 1eavix~j she vient to ~1abwna where she obtained work ma laundry “ironing white folks‘ collars and cuffs.“ Then she got married andin 1917 she came to live with her daughter in ~ort ~ayne. Her hu~iband, Levy Jackson, bas be~x dead 50 years. Of her children, only two ~re left. Mrs. Jackson is sometin~s veiy lonesome for her old horné in 1‘Alabamy‘1, w}ere her friends lived, hut for the moet part, s be I s happy an d co nt «i ted.