Project 188e ~ 1.
Folk Lore	‘~t~	~	Edited by: e,., ~
Distriet No. 4.	‚~‚~	O	J• J• Mu.rx‘ay. ~
May 27, 1937.	.

EX~SLLVE STORIES

	“Aunt „ Mary Àdavia was swinging easi ly bank and forth in the porch awing as the writer stopped to speak to her. When questioned, she replied. that she and her mother were ex-alaves and~ ha~i belonged to Dr. C. E. F1emin~. She was born in (~o1umbia, bu~t they were moved to G»lenn Springs where her iriother cooked for Dr. Fleming.

	~he remembers going with a white woman whose hu.sban~ was in jail, to carry him something to eat. She said that ~Œr. Jun IlLuster was in that jail, bu.t he lived to get out, and later kept a tin shop in Spartanbuxg.

	“Yes sir, Dr. Fleming always kept enou~gh Thr u~s Niggers to eat ~iring the war. He was good to us. You. know he married Misa Dean. Do you. know Mrs. Ly].es, Mrs. Simpson, Mr. :~d Fleming? Well, ~iey are m~y chilliins.

	“Some man here told. me one day that I was ninety years ol~1, but I do not believe I am q~Œite that old. I don‘t know how old I ani, buSt I was walking duringslavery times. I can‘t work now, ~or my feet hurt me and. my fingers ain‘t straight.“

	She said all of her children were dead but two, that she knew o~. She said. that she had a rooni in that house and whiteb people gave her different things. As the writer told her good-bye, she said, “Good-bye, and may the Lord. bless yo~.

SOURCE:	~À~xnt“ Mary Ada~B, 363 8. Liberty Street, Spartanbttrg, S.C.
~	~ Interviewer ; P. ~ 8. Du~e, Spartanbuxg, S. C.