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	Garrard County.	Atlas-ExSlaves Stories .	(EJJ.za Ison) . (3~, 11

I looked out the window into the driveway and sa~~r tjh~ horses that ~e1oflged to Larse Briar Jones. They nickeredat the gate trying to. get

in.	The horses were n~rned Henry Clay ~nd Dan. ~Then the children ~ down I waved at the horses and they looked up at the window and n±ckeï~a again and~ seemed to know me . v;hen we were co~iing back from Texas, MauS

~	rice held on the plait of my hair all the way: back. I didn‘t marry while Ï belonged to the G~no f~uTii1y. I married Henry Mason ~fter I ~ came to Lancaster to live about sixty years ago.I am themother~ of~nin~ children, three boys and six girls. There are. two uiving. I have~no grand-children. I ~joined the church when the choiera eidemic broke~ eut in Lancaster in 1873. Th~ preacher w&s Brother Silas Crawford, of~ thea ilethodist Church. I was baptized ~fl: ~ P~‘~ Ofl Cre~11eTy Street. I- think people ought to be religious because they live better and they love people more.“ ~ ~ ‚ ~ ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ H

	Aunt Harriet lived at the present behind the White ~~ethod~ßt: . ~ ~ Church in Lancaster. The daughter with whom she lives i~s considered one of the L~dgh class of c~i~red people in Lanca~ter.She holds an. ~. ~. Degree, teaching in the colored city SCh~~i, ~nd is also a music teacher. She stands by tuie teaching of her mother, being. a ‘1C~ood ~ ethodisttt giving of her time, talent, ~d service for her church. j