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C ould find. and ran away . She went to the owner of Squire and bought him, then she set him free and changed his name to Walden Squire Walden. But then it was against the law ~or a white woman to marry a Negro unless they had a strain of Negroblood, so Temple cut Squire‘s finger and drained out saine blood. She mixed this with some whiskey and drank it, then she got on the stand and swore she had i~e~ro blood in her, so they were married. She never ~rent back home and her people disowned her .
t~Tempie James Walden, my mother, was a beautiful

woman. She was tall and fair with long light hair. She had fifteen children, seven boys and eight girls, and all of them lived to be old enough to see their great~g~and~ children. :i: am the youngest and only one living now. Most of us came back to North Carolina. Two of my sisters married and came back to Rich Square to live. They lived not far from the James plantation on Roanoke River. Once when we were children my sister and I were visiting in Rich Square. One day we went out to pick huckleberries. A woman e arne r iding dow~i the r oad on a hors e . She was a tall woman in a long grey riding habit. She had grey hair and grey eyes • She stopped and looked at us. ~ she said, twhose pretty littl~ girls are you?‘

‘We ~re Squire Walden‘s children, t I said.

~She looked at me so long and hare that I thotight she