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MRS . M . S • FAYi~AN


Reference:	Personal interview with Mrs. ‘Fayrnan, at her home, Cherry fleights near Baltimore, IVid.




	UI was born in St. Nazaire Parish ii-j Louisiana, about 60 miles south of Baton Rouge, in 1850. M~ father and mother were Creoles, both of them were people of wealth and prestige in their day and considered very infLuential. My father‘s name was Henri de Sale s and. mother ‚ s maiden name ‚ Marguerite Sanche z De Haryne I had two brothers Henri and Jackson named after General Jackson, both of whom died quite young, leaving irie thé only living child.

Both mother and father were born and reared in Louisiana. We 1ived~ ~
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in a large and spacious house surrounded by flowers and situated o~J~ ~
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a farm containing about 750 acres, on which we raised pelicans for~~ ~ sale in the market at New Orleans.

	“When I was about b years old I was sent to a private School in Baton Rouse, conducted by French sisters, where I stayed until I was kidnapped in 1860. At that time I did not know how to speak English ; French was the language spoken in my household and by . the people in the parish.

	“Baton Rouge, situated on the Mississippi, was a river port and stopping place for all largeriver boats, especially between New Orleans and large towns and cities x~orth. We children were taken out by the si8ters after school and on Saturdays and holidays to walk. One of1 the places we went was the wharf. One day in June and on &. Saturday a large boat was at the wharf going north on the Mississippi River. We children were there. Somehow, I was separated from the other children. I was taken upbodily by a whtte man, carried on
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