Missouri

Ex-Slaves
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take care of three children.

	“I nursed in dat ft~rni1y one year. Den Miss Di~gs hired me out to a baker named Henry Tilirnan to nurse three ~hildren. I nursed there two years. Neither family was nice to nie. De preacher had a big farm. I was only seven years old so dey put nie on a pony at meal time to ride out to de field and call de hands to dinner. After the meals were finished, I helped in de kitchen, gathered the eggs, and kept plenty busy. My father was owiied by de Lewis family out in the country, but Miss Diggs owned my mother and all her children. I never atetended school until I came to St. Louis when Abraham Lincoln
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was assa~inated I had never been to school. Dat same year I

attended school at Benton Barracks and went about six or seven
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months/~th de soldiers~ there was no Negro schoolt in St.

Louis at dat ti‘e. The next school I attended was St. Paul Chapel, 11th and Green Streets. I went dere about six months. De next place I went to school was 18th and Warren. I went there about two years. My next school was 23rd. and Morgan, now Delniar Boulevard, in a store building. I went dere between two and three years . I was very apt and learned fast . My father