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in the fields. Ho had a big farn, and owned lots of slaves, aixi when the old master got mad at his slaves for not workixig hard en.qugh he would tie them up by their thumbs and whip the male slaves till they begged for mercy. He sure was a mean old man. I will never forget him as long as I live. I don‘t kiiow exactly how old I~ is, but I am close to ninety now. After I growed up and married a man named Ow, we ooine here to Louis ville • to live. That was a short while after the slaves was freed ~ I can remember how me and my sister used to go down to the river and watch the red hospital boats come in, bringing the wounded soldiers in to be oared for, and me and sister would go long singing ~ Nigger ~ Nig~r — nover die, if you waa~t a chicken pie.“


	In an interview with Mrs. Martha J. Jones, she reminisced c~ the old

CiviiWar days as follows:	~ ~I was born in Buokinghani County, Virginia, and later during the Civil

War, I lived in Gilmar County, W. Va. My fathers name was Robert R. Turner; he was born in 1818 and my motherTs name was Susan; she was born in 1821. My pe.r~ntzhad six children and we lived on a big farm.

	My father was bi the legislature in W. Va. During the Civil War, I had three brother in the Southern Army. One of them died of fever, one was shot and killed in action, and the other William Wert Turner, oa~e out of the army after the close of the war and became a lawyer. I~.ter he went to ~Iew Castle, Kenbuoky, and became a prominent lawyer, where he remained t~ntil his

death in 1932.	~

I married John R~ Jones, a lieutenant in the Union Army, at Gilmer, W.

Va., when I was abc~ut twenty years old, shortly after the war. We then moved

t.	New., Castle, Ker±uo]~y, Henry Couzxt~y. We had four children born to us, and I~n~9w~ ~ three living children; later on ~ in. yeare we moved to Louisviu1~.