Rernirlis cences
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	“We raised some sheep, and the winter woolens were made from the wool sheared rrom the sheep every May. Wool was taken to the fac-. tory at Bivensville and there made into yarn. Often, cotton was swap-. ped for yarn to warp at home. Then ma ran it off on spools for her loom. ‘Sleigh hammers‘ were made from cane ~otteri oft the creek banks and bottoms.

	“A~unt Polly Meador had no patrollers on her place. She would not allow one there, for she did. her own patrolling with her own whip and two bull dogs. She never had an overseer on her place, either. ~‘Teither ‘id she let Uncle Johnny do the whipping. Those two dogs held them arid she did her own whipping. une hi~ht she vvent to the quarter and found old ‘Bill Pea Legs‘ there after one o± her negro women. He crawled under the bed when he heard~unt Polly coming. Those dogs pulled old ‘Pea Legs‘ out and she gave him a whipping that he never forgot. She whipped the woman, also.

	~‘Morg was Morrow‘s nickname. Morg used to sit on the meat block and cut the meat ior~Unt Folly to give out. Morg would eat her three pounds of raw meat right there. Uncle Johnny asked her what she would do all the week without any meat. She said. that she would take the skin and grease her mouth every morning; then ~o on to the field or house and do her work, and wait until the next Saturday for more.

	~tl do not know how old ï am, but I well remember when ~hee1er‘s men came to the plantation. They tore up everything. We heard that they were cumiri~, so we dug holes and buried the meat ana everything we could. ~ie hid them so well that we could never find some of them ourselves. Wheeler and ~6 men stopped on the Dick Jeter place. I think that was in 1864. The Jeter place touched Miss Polly‘s planta-. tion. The Jeter place was right near Neal Shoals on Broad River. M~. Jeter had the biggest gin house in the eutire township. Old Mr. Dick