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a paas ‚ they whipped him. W. gat i~z,st our outø~de news Sunday at church. When farm work was not pressing, we got all of Saturday to clean up

‘round de houses, and wash and iron our clothoae

	s, ~verything lively at thrietrnaa tin‘., dances wid fiddlea, pattin‘ and atick rettlin‘, but !then I jined de church, I quit dancin‘.

	p, After‘ de war, a man came along on a red horae; h. waa dreased in a blue unifo rm and t old us we was free ~ De T&nkeoe ~ dat I ‘~emberø wue not gentlefolke. They etole everything they could take and de m.aneat thing I ever eee waa shoot a they half killed ‚ cut off de hams ‚ end left do other parte qui~erin‘ on de ground.

	~. I married I~oes Jackaon, after freedom, end had a boy, Henry. ~st I heard, he was at Shelby, North Carolina. We had a daughter, Mary, ehe married B~ph Broun • She had t œi chillim ‚ ~ny gran ‚ chulluzi ‚ they ‘e my

	an‘ chillun • b~y miatrea a waa a good Ghristian woman ‚ ehe give t‘. a big supper wh~i‘ I was n~arried~ }1er houee, dunn‘ de wa‘, always had s~rne sick or wounded eoldier. I ‘~mber her brother, Z.d, come home wid a leg gone. Her couain, Theodore, waa dere witt a part of hie jaw gone. I~y mietreaa could play de piano and aing de old songe. I ‘membere &~.retor Theodore had trouble wid de words. L).re was a song called ‘Jawiita‘, ‘bout a fountain. Marater Thodore woul~d try hard, but would aay, every~ tir;~, ‘Jawneetv‘ ‚ and de folie would laugh but mi.trees never would crack a smile I*~t ‚juet go ou wid another eong. I thinka everybody ehould jin. de church and then live right. }~ave prayere in de family bete‘ gitting in de bed. It would have good change, ‘.pecialiy in de toi~ia I th.tnka.

	It ~•~‚ wonien in fan~ily way worked up to near de time, but gueea Doctor Gibeon knowed hie buaineae. Juat beta‘ de tit*, they was took out end put in de cardin‘ and epinnin‘ rootie.