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PO~LORE	390117		~ited by:	• .
Spartanburg Diat~.4		Birner Turnage~ ~. ~
June 10, 1~37	.	~ ~


2TORI~S IROM EL-SIAVES•	. .

	.	“I was born In Newberry County, S • C. ‚ near Belfast ‚ about 1854. 1 wa~ a slave o:~ John Wallace. I wa8 the only child, and when a Bnlall child, my mother was sold to Joe Li~gins by my old master, Bob Adams. It is said that the old brick house where the Wallaces lived was bt~iIt by a Eichleberger, but Dr. John Simpson lived there and sold it to Mr. Wallace. In the atticib was an old. skeleton which the children thought bewitched the house. None o~ them would go upstairs by themselves. I suppose old Dr. Simpson left it there • Soxnet irnes later ‚ it was taken out and buried.. Marse Wallace had many slaves and kept them working, but he was not a strict master.

	“I married Allen 4.ndrews after the war. He went to the war with his master. He was at Colwnbia with the Confederate troops when Sherman burnt the place. Some of them, my husband included, was captured and taken to Richmond Va. They escaped and walked back home, but all but five or six sell out or died.

	“My young master, Editor Bill Wallace, a son of Marse John, was a soldier. When he wa~ sick at home, I tanned the flies from him with a home-made fan of peacock feathers, sewed to a
long cane.	. ..„

	.	“After the war, the ‘bush.whackers‘, called ~u Klux, rode there. Preacher Pitta‘ brother was one. They went to negro houses and killed the people.‘ They wore caps over the head and eyes ‚ but ~ no long white gowns • An old muster ground was above there about three miles, near what is now Wads‘iiorth School.“ 8ourc.:~ Prances ~~fld~:eWß (col. 83), Newberry, 5.0.
‚ . interviewer“i G. Leland Summer, Newberry, S.C.