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a scarf, and his sister gave me some shells. I have all the things they gave me. ~ miss•us, Henrietta Smith, wus ivir. Lander~s sister. I waited on the Landers part of the time. They were hard working white folks, honest, God fearing people. The things they ~ave me were brought from. over the sea.

	li1 can remen~ber when there vvus no hospital in Fayetteville. There wus a littleplace near the depot where there wus a board shanty wheré they operated on people. I stood outside once and saw the doctors take a mn‘ s • leg off ~ Dr . McDuffy wus the man who took, the leg off. He lived on Hay ~3treet near the Silk Mill.

	“\Then one o~ the white folks died they sent slaves around to the homes of their friends à.nd neighbors with a large sheet ~f paper with a piece of black crepe pinned to the top of it • The friends ~ would sign or make a cross mark on It. The fun~rais were held at the homes axid friends and nei~bors stood on the porch and. in the house while the services were going on. The bodies wer4 carried to the grave aftér~ t~e services in a black hearse dr awn by black horses ~ if th : . ey did. not have black horses to ~ draw the ~ ~ h~arsé‘~they went off ax~d. borrowed. ~t~ém. The colored. peo~l~e