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~	) Garrard County . AtIas-.Storles from E~S1aves . (Eliza Ison) . (3).

	The neighbors would u~ua].Iy come and bringtheir slaves. We :

played Sheep-meat and ~ othe r game s • She ep-.nieat was a gaine played~ with a yarn ball and when one of the players was hit by the ba].Ithat:

counted him out. One song we would always sing was “Who ting-a-long~? Who ting-‘a-‘long? Who‘ s been here since I‘ ye been gone? A pret~ girl
	with a josey on“.	. ~ .

	There was no slave jail on the Stone place, and I never saw a slave sold or auctioned off. I was told that one of our slaves ran ~

off and was gone for three years, Some white person wrote h5flto:co~e hOE1C that h€ w~ s free . IT€ va~ rn~king h~ own way in Ohio and stopped in Lexington, Kentucky for breakfast; while there he ~ asked~ to

show hisFass papers which he did, but they were forged so hewa~s.:

arrested. Investigators soon found that his owner was Mr. Stone who did not wish to sell hirn and sent ~or hirn to come home . Uncle Ned‘ a~ own Tim said he t1would go fetch h~iii back?~ but instead he sold him to

a southern slave trader . My o Id Mi stu s Mag taught me how to read from an old national spelling book, but I did not learn to write. y~ no church, but the Bible was read to us on Sund&y ~.fterroons by some;~. ~If the white folks. The first Church I remember was the Old Fork Bap..~ tist Church about four miles from Lancaster on the Lexington Pike. The first preacher I • x~me~ither was Burdette Kemper . I heard him pre&ch at the old church where my Mistus and Master tookrne every Sunday.. The:

first BaptizLnt tMP I r€member wa~ on Dix Piver near Floyd‘s Î,~il1. Preacher Kemper did the Baptizin‘ ~cnd Ellen Stone, one of our sJ~.ves was E~)ptized there v:ith a number of others - whites and blacks tOŚ. ~‘hen Eilen cain~ up out of the water ihe was clapping her h~nds and shouting. One • of the songs I r~ember at this Baptizing was: