Project ~1655
v~. w. Dixon	.
Winnsboro, ~. C.	390258
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	.	A1~Th~E BELL

EX—SlAVE 83 YEARS OLD.

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	Anne Bell lives with her niece, in a one~room annex to a two~ room frame house, on the plantation of ~Jir. Lake Howze, six miles west of Wirnisboro, S. C. Her niece‘s husband, Golden Byrd, is a ahare~cropper on ~r. Howze‘s place. The old lady is still spry and energetic about the cares of housekeeping and attention to the small children of her niece. She is a delightful old lady and well worth her keep in the srr~.ll chores she undertakes and performs in the household.

	‘tidy marster was John Glazier Rabb; us call him i~iarse Glazier. ~v~r mistress was ~ancy Kincaid ~atts; us call her Miss i~ancy. They lived on a big plantation 5ia Fairfield County and dere I come into dis world, eightythree years ago, 10th day of April past.

ttî~r pappy name just Andy but after de freedom, he took de name of


Andrew Watts. ~r old mammy was Harriett but she come to you if you calls her Hattie. My brudders was Jake and Rafe. ~r sister name Charity. They all dead and cone to glory long time ago; left me here tione Dy i~rself and I‘s settin‘ here tellin‘ you ‘bout them.

	‘t1~:~~ ~ was de cook at de ‘Big House‘ for marster, Miss Nancy, and de chillun. Let inc see if I can call them over in my mind. Dere was Marse John, wentoff to de war, color bearer at Seven Pines, Yes sir, him was killed wid de colors a flyin‘ in his hand. Heard tell of it many times. He lies right now in de old Buck Church graveyard. De pine trees, seven of them, cry and sob tro~d him every August 6th; datts de day he was killed. Oh, nxy Godi .