Oklahoma Vr1te~.‘e1 Project
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rheumatism. Dog—fennel ‚ batterfl~-root, aM 11fe‘..ever1a~t1ng boiled and. mixed and. xnad.e Into a syrup will cure pneumonia aM pleurisy. Purs1ey~weed, called squirrel physic, boiled. into a syrup Will cure ch111~ and. fever.

Snake-root steeped. for a long time and. mixed. with ~th1skey will cure chills and. fever also.

	Oui‘ do thes was aU made of homespun. De women 5o~e all de spinning and de weaving but Miss Betsy cut out all de clothes and. helped wid. de sewing. She le~med to sew when she was away to school and she learnt all her women to sew. She clone all the sewing for de children. Master‘Eolmes bought our shoes and. we all bad. em to wear in de winter. We all went bare~. foot in de sunimer.

	He kept mighty good. teams and he had two fine saddle horses. He and Miss Betsy rode ~em all de time. ~he would ride wid him all over de farm and dey ~nfl& go hunting a lot, too. She could shoot a g~in as good as any ‚flan.

	Master Holmes sure did. love his wife and. children and. he was so prcml of her. It nearly killed em both to give up de little boy and girl. ~ never did. hear of him taking a drink and he was kind to everybody, both black and~ white, and. everybody liked hin. Dey had lots of conrpany and. dey never turned any~ody away. We lived. about four miles from de ferry on Bed. River on de Pexas Road and. lots of travelers stopped at our house.

	Je was tlowed. to viel t de colored folks on de Eastman ~ ath Carter plan.« tations dat joined. our farn. Eastman and. Carter was both ~thite men dat married Indian wives. Dey was good to dey slaves, too, and. let ~ visit
Old. Uncle Kellup (Caleb) Colbert, Uncle Billy Hogan, Rev. John Cari‘,