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distress. She told him how She had lived on the old plantation so long and how she had nover thought th~t when she b‘~oame old and lonely that she would fore~r be separated from her children so the new said he would see what he could do, if anything. He made a trip to her forraer home and had a talk with the owner of the plantation. The plantation owner said that he had a bad crop year and heavy losses and much as he needed all the help possible to put in more crops he could not afford to bu~r more slaves, much le s s one that was unab le to work • At thi ‚ Aunt ‘ s new ow-nor be ing a generous, kind-.hearted man, decided to give the old lady back to him. He knew he could not get much money for her if he ~.d sell her, for no one wanted an old slave that was unable to work. Aunt Suzy after all her traveling got to return to her old plantation and when the slaves were freed she lived with one of her children until her death.

}3R~ATHITT CO. (Margaret Bishop)

As told by Scott Mitchell, a former slave:

	Scott Mitchell, claims his age as somewhere in the 70‘s hut his wool is white on the top of his head. Negroes don‘t whiten near as quickly as white people, evidently he is nearly 90, or there-~a-.bouts.

	“Yes‘m I ‘members the Civil Wah, ‘cause I wu~ a..‘livin‘ iii Christian County whah I wuz bohn, right wif my inasteh and mistress. Captin Hester and his wife. I ~ raised on a fahm right wif the, then I lef there.

	“Yes, Cap‘n Hester traded ray mother an my sister, ‘Twuz in 1861, he sent em tuh Mississippi. when they v~iz ‘way from him tbouy two years he bot em back. Yes, he wuz good tuh us. 1 ~îU~ my mistess‘ boy. I looked afteh her, en she made all uv my does, en she knit my socks, ‘cause I wuz her niggah.