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~ Miriam Logan	~i	/	‚~ ‘2 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~	~
~ Lebanon Ohio. (drawing of Celia Henderson)	- ~ ~ ~

Interview with Mrs. • Celia Henderson, a~ed 88, ~ Hardin County Kentucky
	in 1849

“Mali rnammywere ~u1ia Dittoe, an pappy, he were name Willis Dittoe. Dey live at Louleville till mammy were sold f0‘ her mareter‘s debt. She were a poweflul good cook, mammy were~an she were so1~ fo to pay dat debt.“
‚t She tuk us four chilien ‘1on~ wid her, aa päppy an th‘ others staid back in Louleville, Dey tuk us all on‘a boat de de Bi~ Ribber-evah heah ob de big ribber? Mississippi Its name~ut we calls it de bi~ ribber.“

	~	de hill- dats whaah de tuk us to~ Nactchez-~on.de-hill ctia side ofï~ Qr‘leans  ~Aanuny she have eleven chilien. No ‘em, don‘t‘member all dem names no mo ‚ . I~o ‘em, nevah see pappy no moah. „ Im ‘member mammy cryin‘ soin‘ down on de boat, and us chilien a orytn‘ too, but de place we ~ot us was a nice place, nicer den what we left. Family ‘o name of GROHAGEN it was dat got us. Yas‘em dey was nice to mammy 10‘ she was a fine cook, mammy wus. Afine cookJ“

	“Me? Go‘Lon~ I ain‘t no sech cOok as my mammy was.“ But mah boy, he were a fine cook, I ain‘t not,hin‘ of a cook. Yas‘em, I cook b Mis Galla~‘her, an f0 4 o‘ de sheriffs here, up at de ~ai1. But de fancy cookin‘ I ain‘t much on, no‘em I ain‘t. But Mah boy an mammy now, dey was f ine~“ Mah boy cook at hotels and wealthy homes in Louleville ~ti1 he died.“.

	“dey was cotton down dere in Natchez, hut no to~eco like up here. No ‘ein, I nevah wuk in cotton fields. Ihe‘p mammy tote water, hunt chips, hunt aies, ~et things outa de col‘ house. Dat way, I guess I went to wuk when I wuz about 7 or 8 yeahs öl‘. Chilien is sma‘t now, an dey hafto be taucht to wuk, but dem days us culled chillen wuk; an we had a good time wuk:tn‘ fo dey want no shows, no p1aythin~s lak dey ImiTe now to takey up day time ‚ no ‚ in“

	“Nevah no church fo ‚ ~ul led. poeple doe s I ‚ membe r in Nat chez. One time dey was a dro uth, an de water we hauls from wa~r ovah to ~ de rivah.
Now dat wuz down right wuk, a haulin dat waterJ Dey wuz~ an öl‘ man, he were powerful in prayer, an gather de darkies unda a bi~tree, an we all kneels down whilse he pray f0 de p0‘ bea~a what needs good. clean water f0 to drink. Dat wuz a putty si~ht, dat church meetin‘ under de bi~ tree. I alus member dat, an how, dat ~ hefoun a spring wid he öl‘ cane, jes‘ like a miracle after prayer. It were.a putty sight to see mah cows an all de cattle a trottin ‚ f0 dat water. De mens ePydu~ out a round pond ‘ de water to run up into outa de spring, an it wuz good watali dat wud.n‘t make de beastes sick, an we-all was sho‘ happy.‘1‘

	ttyes ~ ~ ~ t se de only one of mammy‘ s chilien livin ‚. She had 11~Ii I lien. Mali ~ran‘j~a on pappy ‘s side, she live to be one hundred an ten yeab‘ s 01‘; powerful ~.‘ ~‚ ev ‘y body say ‚ an she were part Indian, cran ‘ma were ‚ an dat madeherlivetobeol‘.

	“Me? I had two husband a~ three chilien. Mali firs‘ husban die an let‘ me wid three little chiliens, an mah secon‘ husban‘, he die ‘bout six yeahs ~o. Ah own heah to ~bamn about forty yeahs ago, because mali mammy were heah, an she wanted me to ccrne. ~Vhen ah wuz little, we live nine yeaha in Natchez on de hill. Den when de wali were ovah Mammy she want ~o ~o ~~ck to