Project #1655
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R~tJB~2~I ROSBOROTThI, RID~VAY,8C,
~.SLAV~ ~ 82 YEABß ‚ 3 MOW~I~8 OLD



	„ No sir, i: can ‘~e~ber nathin‘ bout de State of Vsrgi~my, ~ere peppy said tie we.a born. He told ~e ‚ when I ~as ‘bout two years old he and w~mn~ Kitty wgs took froz%1 8OU1&WhSZ‘ i~ dat state to Ricb~nd, wid de understandin‘ to eel]. us aa a family, and to give a man ns~e Johnson, de preference. }~e sq de trader couldnt find de w~n Johnson, and sold us to ~iy ~rster9 John Roeborough. My peppy ne~e Wi11ia~, ~iy brothers, Torn and Willie and my sisters, lEery arid Alice.

	H Ity ~rster was a kind and tender i~an t o slev~ea • You ses a man love hosses and animals? Well, dat ‘e de way he love us ‚ though i~aybe in bigger portion, I ‘low. M~rater John never izrry. $st down dore dat he wa~ good enough to buy ~ old gran ~ii~iy Mery, though she never could da uiuch work.

	I.	~ knowed dat our gran‘psppy was a white ~an back in Yerginny, but det was her secret ‚ dat she kept 1ocked~ in hr breast and carried it wid her to de grave. You say I‘s very light color myself~ So I je, so was she, so

a was peppy. Fais your iuiud ‚ us had none of de white Roeborough in us • Us conie

ou one side fro~i de F.F.V‘s. l‘s proud of dat ‚ and you can put down dare dat

derer no poor white trash blood in dese old veins, too.

	u De last pert of de war I worked ao~• in de fi eid ‚ but riot enough to hurt. Vy ~arater was a Preebyteriar~,b‘longed to Aiiiwell Church~ T~ or three acres in ceiaetery Ore now, but they done rove de churth into de town of Ridgeway.

	s, Money was not worshipped then like it is now. Not much use of it.