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	She stated her mother had ~vre1ve children and the log house they lived in was weatherboarded; it was much warmer in such a house during cold weather than the }~ouses are now. tiEvery crack was chinked up with mud and we had lots of wood.“ Her mother made all their beds, and had four double beds sitting in the room. She made the ticking fAret and placed the straw in the mattresses. “They beat the beds you can get now. These men make halfbeds, den sell ‘em to you,but dey ai n‘ t no good . Dey ‘ t know how to make ~ ‚

	-	Aunt Charlotte said she remembered when the stars fell. “That was somethingawful to see.- Dey just fell in every direction. Master said to wake the chilluns up and let ten see it. Everybody thought the world was coming to an end. We went out on de front porch to look at the sight; Wetd get scared and go back into de house, den come out again to see the sight. It was something awful, but I~ sure saw it.‘t (Records

-show that the great falling of stars happened in the year 1833, so Aunt Charlotte- must be older than she claims, if she saw this eventful sight. Yet she was positive she had seen the stars falling all over the -heavens. She made a sweep of her arm from high to low to illustrate how they fell.)



—	SoTJ:Rc:E : Aunt Charlotte Foster, RFD #2, Spartanburg, ~ S.C.
—	Interviewe r : F. . DuPre, Spartanburg, S • C.