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~ !~~~Ď!: ~ I found Aunt Belie sitiing on the porch, dressed niee and

~i ~ an ~:ith a white handkerchief pinne~ o~i her neck. When I went to her and told

her ~ho I was and th~ reason for my visit, her face beamed with srn~1es and she

saU	~Lawdy, it has been so long that I have forgot nearly everything I knew*. Further investigation sooq proved that she had not forgotten, for her stateS.

~nts w3r:~ ver~~ intelligent. 3he was workinS ~ a quilt and close investigation found that the work waswell done. Aunět Belle tells me „ I we.s born ‚une 3r~, 1853 in Garrard County near Lanoaster. My mother‘s name was Marion Blevin and sh~:j bt-donged to th3 fa~ni1y c‘f P13as 3I~in. ~y father‘s name was Arch Robinson w~ i1\T~ in Madison County. Harriso~j Brady bought rae froai 01e Miss Nanoy Graham ~:Ln~ ~~tI~n ~t:r. Brady died and his property was sold Mrs. Brady bought me back; ~nd sh~ aJ.ways said that she paid ~4OO for me. I lived in that family for three

~	generations ‚ ~i4til every one of theni di ed.. T was the only Ohild and had always lived at the big house with my mistus. I wore the saine kind of clothes and ate the same kind of good the white people ate. My ~ther and father lived at the oabin in the yard and my mother did the oooking for the family. My father did the ~rk on the farm With the help that was hired fro~n the neighbors. I was too yo~rig 1~o remember muah abotit the slave days, but I never heard of any slaves of the neighbors being ptinished. My “Mistus“ alw4ys took ca~ to the Baptist ~uroh with her. ~: ~ riot ráember an~y preaohór~ names of any. songs they sang.‘