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FOLKLORE	J.I‘sJ	Edited by:
~partanburg Dist.4		Elmer Turna~e
July 7, 1937

STORIES PROM EX..~SLAVES


	“I ain‘t never give you dis information. Miss Sue&e and miss Tomniie Carlisle, Marse Tom‘s onliest daughters, died. befo‘ de surrender. ~iss Susie slipped one day wid de scissors In her hand, and when she did dein scissors tuck arid stuck in

one her eyes and put it plum‘ smack out and she never did. see
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out‘ri it no nio‘. Dat made it so sad, arid every body cried wid.

her but it	never done her narry bit o~ good. ~ “!hen dem ~OUflß ladies died, I left out and run off

from my ma and come to Union. Mr. Eller kept a bi~ sto ‚ jest as you corne into town. It was jest about whar Mr. Mobley Jeter‘s is now. Dat‘s in demiddle of town, but in de fur off days -I is speakin~ about, it was de very outskirts of dis town. I is seed dis town ~grow, dat is what I is. Mr. EUer tuck me to be his driving boy, ‘and dat sto‘ sot jest exactly whar de Chevet Charage (Chevrolet Garage) sets now.

	“When I been dar six years, my tua come. to Union and. she found me dar. Us was dat glad. to lay eyes -on one another dat we jest shouted ~ur joy and my Ma tuck ahd smacked nie wid. her lips right in de mouth. She told me-dat my pa had done got shot a fixing dein old breastworks down in Charleston arid dat called. fur a b-is cry from me and her both. Mr. Eher, he went out ‘n de back o~ his sto‘ ‘till us quit. He let me go back home to de Carlisle place wid my na. Everything done changed and I brung niy ma back to Union and kept her, kaise I was a man Mi Lull d~n~i