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JANE IÄSSITER~
About 80 y~ears old.
324 Battle Street
Raleigh, N. C.


	ttl am ‘bout 80 years old. ~ am somewhere in. ir~r

seventies ‚ don ‘t zackly knOw niy age • I wus here when de Yankees corne an~ I ‘member seem‘ dein dressed in blue. I wus a nurse at dat time not big enot~gh to hold a baby but dey le t me s e t by de cradle an‘ ~ ek it .
	stAll ri~r white folks dead an‘ all rr~y people an~ dead

an‘ I haint got no one to ax ‘bout ~ age . Dey had ~ age an‘ ~ mother‘s age in de Bible but dey am all dead out now ant I dont t know whur it is.

	~L~r mother an‘ me belonged to the Councils. Dr. Kit Council who lived on a plantation in de lower edge of Chatham County ‚ ‘b out thre e miles from New Hill.‘ 1~r father belonged to de Lamberts. Their plantation wus near Pittsboro in Chatham County . My father wus nanie d Macon Larnbert alit his marster wus named At Laxnbert. Our missu~s wus named Car ohne 311 ~ fathe ‘ s nu ssus wus named Be ekie. My grandfather wus Phil Beil. He belonged to the Bells. They lived in Chatham County . ~r grandmother wus named Peggy an‘ she belonged to de saine family.