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daddy an1 dar I stayed.ti~l I married Wyatt Lee. ~ratt wus a bad proposition an~ he got shot in Fayčtteville atter wé hŕd five chilluns.. Wyatt tuck a woman to Fayettevifle an~ a man named Frank Wiattiner killed him about her. Den my oldest boy went to wurk in Virginia an‘ a man named Rudolphus killed him ‘bout a yaller gal. Both of de murderers runaway an‘ ain~t never been ketched.

	‘1A11 five of my chil1un~ am daid now, an‘ fer de past ten years I‘se done ever1thing but cut cord wood.

	UHOW does I live? Well I lives now an‘ den. De county

gives me two dollars a month an‘ de house am mine dunn‘ my life time. Mr. Parrish sold hit to Judge l3rooks wid de understandin‘ dat hit am mine long as I live. I don~t know why, none of us never ‘lori~ged ter de Parrish‘s ner nothin‘ dat I knows of»‘
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