Garrard County .	Atlas - Ex- Slave Stone s .	(Eliza Ison) . ~3) . . ‘7

heaps of corn-shuckings, the neighbors would cörne in ~nd then we‘d have big dane e s and old i~iarse would always have a “jug of i, . . :

	If a cat crossed out ~.ath we would turn backwards fora while. ~?hen I ~wa~ about 9 or 10 years old I went from the cabin to the big

kitchen to make the fire for my manmy to get the breakfast and. I ~a.w oie man Billie Cleveland standing looking up in the sky. He had been dead about 3 or 4 years; but I saw him. . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

	The white folks looked after us when we were sick. Used dock ~ leaves, slippery elm for poultices. They put polk root in whiske~r and
gaveittous.	~	•	~	:~. . ~‚..

	when tue news caine we were freed. every body was glad. The s:1av~s cleared up the ground and cut down trees. Stayed with ~~‘1arse C1eve1a~id the first year ~.fter the war . Ha-ye heard the Klu Klux Klan ride: ~ the road, wearing masks. None ever bo~hered me or any of Marse Clev~lands slaves. ~ ~ ~ ~

	I married years after I left Marse Cleveland. Ma:rriedLucy Mas~i the first time and had three cMldren,two girls and Iboy. I d±thI~.t have no children byrny second marriage, but the third time I had four.
One died. I have eight grandchildren.	~	~	‚ ‚	‚ ‚

	We had no overseer but i~iarse Hock ~as the only boy and the oldest child. We had no white trash for neighbors. I have seen old cover~â~ wagons pulled by oxen travflhing on the road goir~g to Indiax~ny and us children was whipped .. to ke ep us away from the road for fear they would steal us. ~ ~