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the p1antation~ My mother cUed there and the white folks buried her. Father stayed riht on and helped run the farm until he died. rvry uncle, ~21ic ~$mith, and his family stayed too ~ Grandfather and grandmother after ~ few ye ars left the plantation and vient to live on a little place vhic~ Lirs . IVtary Ann Fuller ~‘ave them. Grandmother a~ ~raidfatiier died there.

	UI wus thirt~ ~~rears olci when I married. I ~ius

married in my. inissus‘ ~raduating dress~ I wus married in the white folks ‚ ciiurch, to James Henry Harris ~ The white folks carried me there and ~ave me away. Miss üary Smits gave me away. The weaciing wus attended mostly by white folks.

	~Iv~y husband wus a fireman on the Cape Fear ±~iver boats and a white man‘s Negro too. We had. two c~iildren, both died while little. My husbaxid and I spent much Of our time with the white folks and when he wus on his runs I slept in their homes. Often the children o± the white families slept with me~ We both tried to live up to the standards of decency.and honesty and to be worthy of the confidence placed in us by our white folks.

UMY husband wus finally offered a job with a. shippix~

concern in Dele~rare and we moved there. He wus fireman on.