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241-—Wayne Holilday ‚ Ex~s lave ‚Monroe County
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Mrs. Richard Koib





sœaethin‘ awful. Dey sho‘ loved dat boy an‘ so did all of de niggers. Afte‘ dey buried him dey took bis sword an‘ hung it on de wall ot de parlor. I reckin it still dar.

	“Marse Ben went afte‘ dat. He was jes old ‘riough to . go but he went an‘ foug,ht je s de same • He coi~ie back when de war was over an‘ dey was sho‘ some rejoicin‘.

	“Time wa‘nt much diffrunt den dan it was ‘fo de War. We stayed on wid our folks for a long time. Den rriy pa started gettin‘ a li‘l work here an‘ dar an‘ purty soon he got all his chullun started out purty well. We all wer~t to de colored school what dey had down whar de railroad crossin‘ is now, an‘ dat was whar i: l‘arned to read an‘ write. I ~idn‘ iaarry for a good while an‘ den I went to work on de I.C. Railroad. 1 was fust a coal heaver an‘ den a coach porter. I was faithful to my job an‘ made good money an‘ soon built me a house of my own whar I raised my family. I sent all my chullun to 8chOOl an‘ dey is dom‘ well. My wife worked right ‘long wid me. She died ‘bout two years ago.

	“I‘se thaxikful I ain‘t got no sad mem‘ries ‘bout slav‘ry times an‘ dat I an‘ my folks is done as well aa ~ey have. T‘is de work of de Lawd.“

	~	Wayne Holliday, who lived in slavery times, and whose father was a slave, i8 84 years old, a dried~.-u~p looking Negro ot