~2. 58
	“The patrollers rode ‘round and ketched slaves who ran away without passes. They never bothered us. IThen our work was over at night, we stayed home, talked and went to sleep. On Saturday afternoons white folks sometimes give us patches of ground to work, and we could wash up then, too. We raised corn on the patehe~ and some vegetables. On Sunday we just rested and went to neighbor‘s house or go to church. On Christmas we had Hg eats. ~

t? Corn-. shucking s and cotte n~p ick Ing s always had

suppers when work was done. Master made whiskey up at his sister‘s place, and at these suppers he had whiskey to give us.

	t~1hen we was sick we had a doctor - didn‘t believe much in root teas.

“I married when I was 15 years old at a white

man‘ s place, Mr. Sam Ca~ont ~ • J~ negro man named Jake C~rnon married us. Supper was give us by ~1r. Sam Cannon after it was over.

ttWhen freedom came, my mother moved away, but

I stayed on.

	“1 think Abraham Ljncoln was a good man, arid

Jeff Davis was a good man. I dontt know anything about Booker Washington.



SOURCE:	Lila Rutherford (86), Newberry, S.C.,~RFD
Interviewer:	G. Leland Sunmer, 1707 Lindsey St., Newberry, S. C.