-g1~ves Stories		~	page 2 . 2ff
	5th District ~
	Vanderburgh County The Biography of a Child born in Slavery.
	Laue~ii~ Creel	.

t.o work and keep her fa~ra1y together ~ Wages received for her work failed to sup~ port the mothe r and children so she le ft the empi oy of ~r ~ Jams s and w~rked from place to place until her children became half starved and ~without clothing.

	The older children, reme,therin~ better and happier days, ran a~way from their ~1x~Ext~x mother and vi~nt back to their old master.

	Thomas Watson .vent to DIxon, Kentucky and had an article of jndenture dra~xi UI) binding both Thomas and Laurah to his service for a 1on~ number of. yeare. Little S~rriuel only rem~ned with his mother ~tho took him to the home of William Alien Price. 1~r. Price~s plantation was situatedin Weh~ter County, Kentucky about ha1f~~r between Providence and Clay on Craborchard Creek. Mr. Price had the little boy indentured to his service for ~ period of eighteen years. There the boy lived and worked on the plantatioii.

	He caid he had a good home among good people. His master save him five real whippings within a period of fourteen years but tlnole Samriuel believes he deserved every lash administered.

	Uncle Samuel loved his master‘s fa~r~.ily~ he speeks cf Miss Lena, kj58 Lula, ‚~ • ~aster Jefferson and 1~aster John and believes they are stilL alive. Their present home is at Cebra, Kentucky.

	I-b ~was the custom for a:slave indentured to a master to be given a fair education, a good horse, bridles saddle and a suit of clothes for his years of

	~	but ~tr. Price did not believe the boy deserved the pay and refused to ~pay f him. A,~~c‘yer friend sued in behalf of the negro and received a judgenient of

e~ll5.oo (one hundred and. fifteen dollars). Eighteen dollars repaid the lawyer for hi s . service amid Sairtuel started out ~1th $95 .00 and his freedom.,

	~vansville becsthie the home of Samuel Watson ixi 1882. The trip was made by train to Henderson then on transfer boat along the Ohio to F~va~asviile .

	The youn& negro ~an i~s ~pressed by the boat and crew amid ~aid he loved the ‚ : ‚. town from the first glun~pse.