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During the days of the Cj~j1 War my father owned three slave, one was an old darkey iiamed Alex., and the nigger imainmies, were Diana and Mary Aim. My parents were always good to their slaves, and never Çraded or sold them. They were good workers and my father never kept many.

	My Uncle, John C. Turner, had farms close to my father‘s in West Va., and he had fifty.-two slaves when the war ended. He would buy, sell aixi trade them all the time. The slaves were judged by the Masters. If they~vere big and strong theyv~u1d bring a good price, as they would be better workers for the fields, and they, I would watoh my uncle swap and buy slaves, just the sanie as he was buying any other stock for his farm. I ant getting now, ath my memory is not s o good no more ‚ and it i s hard to remember the th ings of so long ago. You see, I will be ninety years old, next Feb. 23rd. I was born in 1847.“
	.	FLOYD CO. (John I. Sturgill) .

	We are unable to interview exslaves in Floy~1 Coun~y,so far as anyone we are able to oontaot knows, there are no living ex~-slaves in the County. There are several oolored people. The majority of them reside at Tram, ~efftucky, Floyd County, in,a kind of colored colony, having been placed there

just after the Civil War. Â small number of colored people live in the


s: vicinity of Wayland, Kentucky, the original being the remains of a wealthy
1~ farmer of Civil War day, by name of Martin. The colored people were identified
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as ~‘Martin‘s Niggers.“

The. last ex-slave of Floyd County, says Mr. LS. Wallen of Prestonsburg,

Kentucky, was “Uncles‘ Charlie Richmond, of Prestonsburg, Uncle Charlie was

brought t•o the o ounty by old. Judge Rickmond., father of I • Richmond of the

Richmond Dept. Stores of Prestoii~burg, &out the time of the Civil War.

Ihen the war was over “Uncle“ Charlie worked at Richniond‘s for hire and lived

~	as ‚ a member of the te$ly. ~hile, working on a ~reetonsburg newspaper, Mr.
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