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~		project 1885~1
~‚		Folklore
~ .		Spartariburg, Dist.4
	.	Dec. 7, 1937
edited by:	~g
Elmer Turna~e	 ~
(1 W~~ft~j)
STORIES PROM EX~~SL~tVES
	“I live in a rented house wid ~r dau~~hter who takes care ~o:f me. I was born in de Sarituc section. IvIy pa and ma was Richard Dawkins ~nd 1~L~rtha Shelton iD~w1dns.~ I think dey lived i~1id de Heridersoris in de Maybinton section néar Broad Riser, but dey lived vcid L‘iarse Bill Jeter near Sarituc when I was born. My husband ~as

Ike Kelley, h~ been dead Liood~niany years.

.?~Marse ~vhi;ped me once or. tv~iice. ‘le had to work in de cot.~

tori fields, and I have salit railsand ditched like men, too. . ~‘~e had home..~rt~ised meat, lots of hogs and cattle. L~arse

had~a bi~ 8~rden and v~e ~ot -lots o~ vegetables . Marse Thd claves in a trough in deyard~. He had his ownsniokehouse whar he cured his meat. His flour was ground in de ~ei~hborhoo~ Sometimes he give a slave £arni.ly a small patch to plant v~atermelons in.

-	.. ~ “~e wore heavy bro~ns wid brass toes.Sometirnes ~arse
		would make his own leather and have shoes ruade inde neighborhood
		arid dese would have wooden bottoms. He never let us 1e~~,rn to read
	j	and write. He never allov:ed us to ~‘o from one place to another
	-	unless -it ~s. onhis place. De patrollers vvou~dgit us i±~ ~e didri
	~ 	have a pass; even ii we ~ent ~to churc~v~id white £o1ks~we had to
		have a~ pass. Ni~8ers didn‘t haveno church till atter de ~ar; den
	- 	dey built brush arbors in de woods.
		       “I marriedat rayhouse.We is~-ßa~tists, and I used to ~o
H ~		and ~ee de~abaptize sinners. ~
~: ~ ~	~ ~	.. “We used to ~o home at night when de work ~ over and ~o

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