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ClARA JONES
408 Cannon Street

t?1 been unable ter work fer 10 years; I ~ blind. I

been in bed helpless fer four years. I eats all I can get, and takes what I am told ter take. De Lord helps me, I am depending on him. He put me into de world and he eau take me out. I was 17 years old at de surrender. i~ missus wus Liiiiie ~cott. I wus a Scott before I married William Jones. ~ ~.~arster wus Aaron Scott. I loved my ~hite folks. Hain‘t ~::ot no word. ter say ~g~inst ~ em. ~ ‘ t think de Government goin‘ to help me any; I have been fooled so many times. ~ie all should fix our salvation right thatts the thing that counts now. ~r time is ‘bout spent here.
ttjJ~ white folks went off to de war; dey said dey

could whup ‚ but de Lord said ‚ ~l~0t ~ and dey didn‘t whup . Dey went off afin‘ ~ t jn~r were soon i~ ‚ and m~y did not C orne back • De Yankee s e orne through ‚ dey took what dey wanted; killed de stock; stole de horses; poured out de lasses and cut up a lot of meaness, but most of ‘emis dead and gone now. No matter whether dey were Southern white folks, or Northern white folks, dey is dead nm.

“I am helpless, my son, de baby~ who is de only livin‘