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	~ ~-‚ .- WPA iii Ohio ~ 		Jefferson County
	Federal VV‘riters ‚ Project  		District #2 ...
	Written by Bishop & Taleman		24O-‘Ex«s1ave~
	Edited by ~&].bert I. Dugen

(Perry Sjd Jemison lives with his married daughter and scme of his grand-ohill ren at 422 South Sixth Street, Steuberiville, o.)
	/	Perry Sid Jexnisen
		Ex-Slave, 79 years

	“I wuz borned in Perry County, A1abama~ De way I remember my age is, I was 37 years when I wuz married and dat wuz 42 years ago the 12th day of last J~ia?T. I hed all dis down on papers, but I hab been stayin‘ in different places de last six years and lost my papers and some heavy insurance in jumpiii‘ round from place to place •

	“My inudders imme wuz Jane Perry .	t s name wuz ~ id Jemis on. Father died and William Perry was raudders second husband.

	~ mudder wuz a Virginian and my father was a South Carolinian. i~iy oldest brodder was named Sebro~a and oldest sister wuz L~aggie. Den de next brudder wuz William, de next sister wuz named Artie, next Susie. Dams all of dein. .

	“De hoi enti re fami ly lived together on the Cakhoba riv‘er ‚ Perry County, Alabama. After dat we wtiz acattered about, some God knows where.

	“~e ehillun played ‘chicken me erener crow‘. We go out in de sand and

	build ~~nd houses and put out little tool s and one thing and another in der, “When we w‘iz ‚ all together we lived in a log~ hut • Der wuz a porch in between and two rooms on each side. De porch wuz covered over — all of it WUZ under one roof. ~ -

	“Our bed wuz a wooden frame wid slats nailed on it. We jus had a common hay mattress to sleep on. We had very respectable quilts, because my mudder made them. I believe we had better bed covers dem days den we hab des days.

	t‘~sT grandmother wuz named. Snooky and my grandfather Anthony. I thought