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	~partanburg, Dist.4	390331	Elmer Turna8e
Nov. 29, 193?

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	.	STORIES FROLI ~L.SLAVES

~I sho is spry, kaise I sho is done took care 0± :~iyse1~ and I

done dat good, too. I know ~7111 ~vans who is 72 aria he is all bent over and. wrinkled ant. all stewed u~j. Dat‘s de way folks wants to see you beTh‘ dey calls you old., but dey ain‘t gwine to see me like dat, ideed. dey ain‘t. L~ost £o~ks calls me de youn~est, but ï was born on

de 30th day o±~ July, arid I is passed by 75 Julys ~nd still gittin~ around better dan some dat is seed but bO Julys.
	‘~~~ell does I remember when ~ny young marster, John Kitchens, ~nt

to de ‘Pederate War. He was a big ~at ±eller, and jolly. De morning be 1e~t, he come througti de yard leading a iine bay. All o± us was dar to see him off. ~ie had ~etthed him things, but he say dat you couldn‘t carry riothingto war but a pack on your back arid he laid dem all down and wiped his eyes and rode off wid a big yell to us. Dat was de rebel yell arid we answered back. ~

	TtOne morning de very next week we heard our young n~issus ho1~

lering and we went to see ~that de trouble was. She had got word dat he had done gone and got kil‘t by a Yankee. 7~e all cried. De little chilluns, John, ~Ji-ll, Ella and Bob cried, too. Missus went ~to her ma and pa, Mr. Green and Miss Salue i~iitchel, near TroughShoals. Prankie Brown and Malissa Chalk went wid her to her pa‘s~ Our plan~ tation was awflù big. It was sold and uswid it.

	“Wasn‘t long till young Missus married again and went to Vir-. ginia to live. Prankie and Malissa come back to our plantation. Den slavery was over and dat is de last dat I ever heard o~ our Mi8SUS.~t


Source:	Anna Johnson (L75), Rt.4, Gaffney, S.C. ~ritervievver: Caidwell Sims, Union, S.C. (11/3/37)