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	G~ORŒ~E OO1~B~&D, J,	. ~
— ~A~ge 77~y~. ~
Oklahoma City, Okia.


	I was born B‘ebr~iary 23, 1860 at Connersville, Harrison County, !~en— tucky. I was born and. lived. just 13 miles from Parish. My mother‘ s naine Is Rachel Conrad~, born at Bourbon County, Kentucky. My father, George Conrad~, was bo rn at Bourbon County Kentuc1~y. My grandmother‘ s name is Saille Amos ‚ and. grandfather‘ s name Is Peter Arno s . ~f~y grandIather ‚ hi s old. Mast e~ freed him and. he bought my grandmother, Aunt Liza and. Uncle Cy. Ee made the money by freighting groceries from Ohio to Maysvilie, Kentucky.

	Our Master was named Master Joe Conrad. We sometimes called him “Mos“ Joe Conrad. Master Joe Conrad stayed. in a big log house with weather
boarding on the out si de .	~	.

	I was born in a log cabin. We slept in wooden beds with rope cords for slat s ‚ and. the beds bad. curtains around. them. You see my mother was the cook for the Master, and she cooked. everything ~ chicken, roasting ears. She cooked mo stly everything we have now. They dl dn‘ t have stoves ; they cooked. In big ovens. The skillets had three ~ legs. I can remember the first stove that w~ had.. I g‘~iess I was about six years old..

	‘My old. Master had 900 acres of land.. My father was a stiller. Re made three barrels of whisky a day. Before the ~ar whisky sold. for 12*~ and i3çt a gallon. After the War it went up to $3 and. $4 pe~ gallon. When Tear

broke out he had 300 barrels hid under old. Master‘s barn.
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. f	t There was 14 colored. men working for old. Master Joe and. ‘7 women.

think it was on the 13th of May, all 14 of these colored men, and. my father, went to the Army. When old. )d~aster Joe come to wake ‚ em up the next morning ~ remember he called real loud, Xile~, ~sau, George, Prank, Arch, on down the line, and my mother told. him theytd all gone to the army. Old. Maeter went