Ex..~31ave:	Emanuel Elmore


When she got sobered up she was afraid that Col E].rnore ~as going to send her back to Alabama; so she went and hid In the woods. Pa took Thod to her. In about a month L~o1. Elmore asked where she was, and pa just looked sheepIsh arid grinned. Col. Elmore told pa to go arid bring her back, ±~or he said he was tired o~ having his rations carried~to the woods; so ma came home. She had stayed off three months. She never felt well anymore, arid she died in about three more months. Pa arid Jenny kept us till we ~ot big and. went off to ourselves.

	“Jenny was born and raised in South Carolina, and she was good to everybody and never fought and went on like ma did. Ma liked her arid would not le~ anybody say anything against her. She was good to pa till he died, a real old nian. Jenny never had any children. She was not old when she died, but just a settled woman. We felt worse over her death than we did ovèr ma‘s, because she was so good to us and had cared Lor us while ma and pa were in alabama; then she was good to us after Dorcas died arid when she hid in the woods.

	“It seems that £olks are too tender now. They can‘t stand much. My ma could stand more than I can. My children can‘t stand what I can rittht now. „

Source:	~nanuel Elrnore (?7C), Sycamore St., Gaffney, S.C.
Interviewer:	Caidwell Sims, Union, S.C. 11/16/37