Garrard County .	Ât1as-~Lx~S1ave Stories .	(iliza Ison) . (2)~ .	j ~
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have many slaves. The slaves were waked up byGeneraJ. Gano who r~g a big fax~n bell about four times in the morning. There was no jailon the place and I never say a slave whipped or punished in any wayb ~ never sal:: a slave aut~tioned off. My i~iistu~ taught all the slaves to ~ ~ read ~nd v;rite, and we set on a bench in the dining room. Then the news caine that we were free i3enerai Gano took U.S all in the äining room ana told us about it. I told him I wusn‘t going. to the cabins and sIee~
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 ~ ith ther~~ ni,~ers and I didn‘ t . ~t Christmas and	ew Ye~rs we ~ ~aid


~	ha~‘e big times and. General G~o and Miss Nat would buy us. candy~~ ~ corn, ~ na firecrachers arid all tne &ood tiungs just . ~ke tne white

~	folks . I don‘t remember any weddings, but do remember the ftnerai Of ir. !aj:~1on who lived bet~een tne oig ~iouse and Lick 3killet. ~e was

~	going to be buried in the cemetery at Lick Skillet, but the horses go-te 1

~	scared and turned the spring wagon over and the corpse fell out. Zie

~	mourners sure had a time getting things straightened out, but they
~. finally got him buried.	. ~	. ~	. .

~	~ey Used to keep watermelon to pass to company. Us children would go to trie patch ana. o~ ing tne 1ielons to tne oig spring ~-io. pour w~ ter

~	over the:~a and cool ‚ em. ~hen ne~vs carne that we v:ere free ~e all stLrted back to Kentuc~çr to ~rrse Jones old place ~e st~rted the journey in two covered wa~:ons and an ~nbulance. Gener~.l G~no and 1•~iss ~at and the t1~To chiidren ai-i~.i me rode in the a~nibulance . hen we got to ~Iem~his we got on a steam boat named ITold Kentucky‘s • ~!e loaded the ambulance and the two wagons ~nd horses on th~ boat. ~Th~n w.e leJt the boat, :~e got on the train and go~ off at Georgetown in i~cotht County and rode from there to General Gano‘ s Brother ~7illiam in Scott CountY, on a st&ge •~ Coach. ~hen I took the children, Katy and I~aur±ce, Upstairs to wash them