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	“I was born in Pennsylvania, on Shiptown road, Clinton County, close to Meroersberg. When I was growing up my mammy always believed in making lier own medicine, and doctored the whole family with the roots she dug herself. She use to bile down the roots from ma~apple, snake root and llood root, and make her medicine. This was good for the blood and keep us from gettin‘ sick.

	While the wah was goin‘ on, the soldiers wore campin‘ all about~us and when they heer‘d the Gray‘s was coming they ~ot ready for battle, and when they did come they fit‘ em back, and they made their stand at harpers Ferry, Va., and had a hard battle there. My m~nmy was scared of the Gray‘s and when she hoer‘d they was coniin‘, would hide us three boys in some white folks cellar until they was gone. They would take all the young niggahs with them they could get hold of, and soon as they‘d gone, we would go back home.

	~	When the wah was over, nie and some boys went over to the battlefield and foun‘ a calvar~r gun which I had for years. We lived in a log cabin on a farm and worked for a farmer in the fields while my mammy worked in the

house for the white folks. Wo had lots of things that is good and bad luck.“
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The following is the life and traditions of Joana 0wens, 520 E. Breokinridge St., Louisville, Kontuoky, an old negro mammy who was born during slavery.

	“My mother and father was slaves, and there was two ohildrtrn born to the;, my s istor and me • We used to 1 ive at Hawe eville ‚ Ko ntucky, on the Ohio River. My peoples name was Barr, and their masters ns~iQ was Nolan Barr. You know they all had to take their masters x~ame in slave days.

	I. will never forget how mean old Master Nolan Barr was to us. I was about fourteen years old and my sister was a little younger. We lived in an old log cabin. The cracks was filled with mud. My Mother done the housework for Master ar‘ s house • My father and sister and me had to work