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C • R. McLean ‚	Go• fl. Conn,	p~ge ~4
District Superviaor	  Writer	District ~5
		Sun~iiit County
“Ilbur C. Anmx:~ii,	Tune 11, 1937	f2~, ioi~ioi.
Zdltor


ANNA SMITh

	~ny instances during those terrible war days are fresh In her mind:

men and boys, In pairs and groups passing the “big house“ on thsir way to the r ecrutting station on the public iquars, later going back in squads and companies to tight; Yankee soldiers raiding the plantation, taking corn and hay or whatever could be used by the northern army; and continua.]. apprehension for the menfolk at the front.

	She rœemberé the baying of blood hounds at night along the Ohio River, tryin~g to follow the scent of escaping negroes and th~ crack öf firearms as whit• people, employed by the plantation owners attempted to halt the oegroes in their efforts to cross the Ohio River into Ohio or to join the Federal army.

	Referring to her early liTh, she recalls no special outstanding events. Her treatment from ner master ana mistress was pleasant, always receiving plenty of food and clothing but never eny ~ney.

	In a grove not far from the plantation home, the slaves frow the nearby estates me~t on sunday for worship. Her. under the spreading brEnchee they gathered for relieious worship, and to exchange x~wi.

	When President Lincoln issued his proclamation freeing the slaves. and the news reached the plantation, she went to her master to learn it she was tree. On le.x‘ning itwas trus she returned to her parents who were living on another plantation.

	She has been living with her grandchildren for the ~et nine y•sre, contentid but ready to go when the “Good Lord calls her.~
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