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to Cynthia, Kentucky, where they had. gone to enlist and. begged the officer In charge to let him see all of his boys, but the officer said “No.~‘ Some way or ‘nother hegot a chance to see Arch, and Arch came back with him to help raise the crops.

	~	My mother cooked and. took care of the house. Aunt Sarah took care of the children. I had. two little baby brothers, Charlie and. John. The old. Mistress would let ~iy mother put them in her cradle and. Aunt Sarah got jealous, and. killed both of the babies, Then they cut one of the babies open they took out two frogs. Some say she conjured the babies. Them niggers cou~d~on~ jure each other but they couldn‘t do nothing to the whitefoiks, but I d.o&t believe In It. There‘s an old. woman living back there now (pointIng around. the corner of the house where he was sitting) they said. her husband. Dut a spell on her, They call ~ em two~headed Negroes.

	Old. Master never whipped any of his slaves, except two of my uncles

~	Pete Conrad and. Richard Sherman, now living at Th.Ismouth, Kentucky. ~e raised corn, wheat, oats, rye and barley, In the spring. In

January, February and. March we1 d. go up ~ to the Sugar Camp where he had. a grove of maple trees. ~Tetd make n~aple syrap and. put up sugar In cakes. Sugar sold. for $2.50 and. $3 a cake. He had. a regular sugar house. My old. Master was rich I tell you.

	Whenever a membér of the white family die all the slaves would turn out, and. whenever a slave would. die, whitefolics and. all the slaves would. go. My Masterhad. a big vault. My Mistress was buried In an Iron coffin that they called a potanic coffin. I went back to see her after I was 21 years old. and
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she look jest like she did. when they buried. her. All of the family was buried in them vaults, and. I expect if youtd go there today they‘d look the same. The slaves was buried in good. handmade coffins.

.	I heard a lot of talk ‘bout the pátrollers, In them days if you went


~‚ :~ ~ away from homé and. dIdnt t have a pass they‘ d whip ~ you. Sometimes they‘ cl. whip