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	Kate Billingaby, Ex..slave, according to a reoord in a Bible the Bucknors gave her when she xaarried was born in 1828. She was owned by Frank and Sarah Buckner. Born in this County and has spent her life in and around Hopkins.. ville. She lives on what is knowi~ as the Gates Mill Road about one half iaile east of US 41E and owns her own home.

	Aunt Kate as she is generally called is a small black negro and in going into ~er honte you will find it furnished in lovely antique furniture £~ a disreputable state of repair. She met ~e with a dignity and grace that would be a credit to any one of the white race to copy, illiterate though she may be. Her culture and training goes back to the old Buckner family, at one time one of the most cultured families in Christian County. She is not a superstitious negro. Being born a Buckner slave, she was never sold and her maimers and ways proclaim that she surely must have been raised in “De white folks house“ as she claims, being a maid. when old enough, to one of Frank Bucknerts daughters. She stated, “Dose Buokners war sho good to me, eben now dey ohilluns comes to see me•• and always bring me something. Dey don let my taxes lapse an. I‘se neber widout somting to eat.“ My man and I was married by Mr. Alexander at MaClain College. I was de cook an he was the janitor. My man followed his Massa in de Secess War. If he was a livin‘ now he would be 110 years old, he bin ded tro~d fifteen year.tt ~

	No I‘se done believe in no ghosts hauts or enybhing pf that kind my white folks being “quality“. I‘se been raised by ~‘quality“Z ~Vhy I‘se “quality nigger“. “Wen any of my folks git sick or eny of my white folks de doctor

would always bee sent foh. (Her address is: R.R.# ~‚ Hopkinsville, Ky.)
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	Naimie Eaves, age 91, born in MoLain County, Ky. being a &ave of William. Eaves, never sold, address now R.R$2, Eopkins~lle, Kentw~ky.

	“I guess I was about twenty one years old wen I w~s freed.“ I‘se was neber