project 1865..1
FOLKLO RE		E~ it e d by : b(.	8
~partanburg Dist .4	39O15~3	Elmer Turriage•
~Tune 16, 1937

STORIES PROM EX~SLAVES

	“I was born In old ~bbevi11e County, S.C. about 1881; was reared in what is now greenwood County. My Lather was ~1nston .4rnold arid. my mother, Sophronia Lomax .iznold. They belonged to the Arnold i~ax~~iIy during slavery time. I was just a &man child during the Confederate ~ar, and don‘t remember anytLin~ about it. I heard my mother tell about some things though. The slaves earned no money and were just given q~uarters to live in and something to eat. ~•iY rather was a blacksmith on master‘s place, and after the war, he was blacksmith ~or himself. I heard him tell about the patrollers~ They had lots of cornshuckings and cotton pickings, but they never worked at night.

	“I remember the ni~ht~..riders, butdon‘t remember‘that they didany~harm much except they got after a man once.

	~Then any of us got.sick we sent for a doctor, but old.time folks I heard about, would use herbs, tree barks, and the like of that to make teas to drink.

	“I married in a negro church when I was young. I marrIed Prank Pair who carne from Newberry County, S.C. After the cere~ mony, the. neighbors gave me a nice dinner at the church.

	“I don‘t remember anything about lincoln or Jeff Davis, but I think Booker Washin~ton is a leading colored man and has done 8ood.

	‘Il joined the bhurch when I was nine years ol~,because my father and mother belonged, and so many young people were joining. I think everybody ought to join a church.“

SOUrCê:	Eugenia Pair (76), Greenwood, S.C. Interviewed ~y: c~.L SUInnler,New,berry, ~.ç. (5/10/37)