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	t~~~hen we g~ot sick all the medicine we took was

turpentine ~ dat would cure aLmost any ailment. Some of the niggers used Ssrnpson snake weed or peach leaves boIled and tea drunk.

	“I joined the church when I was 12 years old


‘cause the other girls joined. I think everybody ought to join a church to get the~* souls right for heaven;

	‚t I rriarried Chancy Rice in Spartanburg County, at a colored man‘ s house, named Henry ~ by a colored preacher named ‘Big Eye‘ Bill Rice. I had four children, and have five grand—children. I have been living in Newberry about 35 years or more. I worked as a wasli‘woman many years.

	‘tWhen freedom corne ‚ my folks s t ayed on with Capt. Posey, and I washed and ironed with then later ~then I was big enough. I done some cooking, too. I could card and spin and make homespun dresse s . My nia learned ~ne.

	“I don‘t know much about Abraham Lincoln end Jeff Davis but reckon dey was good men. I never learned to read and write. Booker Washington, I reckon, is a good man.“





SOURCE:	Anne Rice (75), Newberry, ~. C.
Interviewer:	G. Lela.nd Summer, 1707 Lindsey St., Newberry, S. C.