Code No.	No. Words_______
Project, 1~5-~(1)	Reduced from_~~iords
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by ~
Place, Marion, 8.0.	         .
Date, December 26, 1937	Page 3.



too ‚ when de white people axes dem to sing to dey church. I remember, when I been baptize dere, I was just a~ little small child. Oh, de white preacher baptized all us little niggers dere. Old Massa, he tell all his hands to carry dey obi].lun up dere en get dem baptized. Oh, my happy, dey been fiz us up dat day. Put on us clean homespuns eu long drawers, dat been hang down round us ankles like boots, en all us get a new bonnet dat day. I recolleots, dey wouldmaroh us right up to de front of de church en de preacher would come down to whe‘ we was standin wid a basin of water in one band en a towel in de other band. He would take one of us chillun en lay he wet hand on dey head en say, ‘I baptize dee in de name of, etc.‘ Den dat one would have to get back en anothe r one would step up for dey turn. De preacher, he would have a big towel to wipe his hands wid en every child‘s mammy would be standin right be~‘ hind hind dem wid a rag to wipe de(drain) dren water out dey e ye s •

	-	NOh, my Lord, when de Yankees Caine through dere, I hear dem say it was de Republicans. Mr. Ross had done say dat he hear talk dat dey was comm through en he tell h~s niggers to hurry en htde all de plantation rations. Yes,ma!n, dey dig cellars under de colored people houses en bury what meat en barrels of flour dey could en dat what dey couldn1 get under dere, dey hide it UP in de loft. Mr. Ross say, Won‘ none of