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at de time I was going from school to school, was a nurse in Benton Barracks and my mother taken in washing and ironing. I had to help her in de home with de laundry.

	“I married at de age of twenty-two and wes de mother oi° seven children, but only have two now iiving~,,4. daughter dat lives next door and in de same yard with me, and a son in the Phillipine Islands. I have eigh.t grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

	“I so often think of de hard times n~y parents had in dere slave days, more than I feel my own hard times, because my fa.. ther was not allowed to come to see my mother but two nights a week. Dat was Wednesday and Saturday. So often he caine home all bloody from beatings his old nigger overseer would give him. My mother would take those bloody olotheB of~ of him,bathe de sore places and grease them good and wash and iron his clothes, so he could go back clean.

	“But once he cerne home bloody after a beating he did not deserve and he run away. He scared my mother most to death because he had run away, and she done all In her power to persuade him to go back. He said. he would die first, so he hid. three