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always tried to keep me fron going out with de low class. After I washed de supper dishes, I would have to go upstairs and cut out quilts and I did not like it but it was good for me.

	“My first husband gave ~5O for ~ dis 1~t I am living ~n . Dat was just.at de end of de war. He hauled de logs and chinked and white-

washed dem and we had two rooms and a hail. It was a good, nice,
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warm house. H~ was a carpenter. About twenty-five years later my

husband built hirn a frame house here and dug him a well. He had 4 dozen chickens, 15 head of hogs, 2 horses, 2 wagons, and a buggy to go back and forth to de church at Libertyville, New Tennessee, or Pilot Knob. We lived together fifty years before he died. He left me dis home, three horses, 3 milk cows and three hogs.

	“Vie had no children but ‘dopted a little boy. Hé was my husband‘s sister‘s child. De boy‘s mother took a notion that she wanted to work out and she was just a young girl so we took de boy at about de age of three and he was with us about six years. He went to a colored school den but a white teacher taught him. We adopted a girl too from Marquand. De girl‘s father was a colored man and de mother was a white woman. De woioan den married a white man in Marquand and her husband 4id not want de child so we took her at about three years old. We did not have her no time ‚ tu she died. We have helped to raise about a