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;J-ULIA CÀSE~~

811 9th Avenue, So.

Nashville, Tennessee
	I WuZ bawn in West Tennessee en wuz six ytars oie wten war broke out.

	Mah MiSSISWUZ Miss Jenrije McCullough en she ma‘ried Eldridge Case~y. MahMissis‘s mammy wuz a wjdder en she gib me, mah mammy, ma:ri sistah Violet, maki two brters Andrew en Alfred ter Miss Jennie fer a wed‘un gif‘ . Missis Jennie en I~arster Eldridge brung us ter Nashville ‘fore de war sta‘te~.

	Mah iviissis w~Z good ter us. I‘se bin wtll tuk keer ob, plenty ter eat en warm clothes ter w‘ar. Right now I‘se got on long underW‘ar en ~ah chemise.

	Mah inaminy-d‘~ed fust ylar ob freedum. Dey ‘tuk her ‘was‘ in a two-hoss waggin, about four~o‘c1ock one eveninT • Dero wuz no burses er caskets d en. WI en niah mammy d‘ ~d ‚ I still stayed wid Missis Jennie. She raised me. Datte why foLks say I‘se so peculiar. De Yankee soJ~iers tuk ~ah sistah en two brters 1wa~ du~in‘ de war. I ez de mammy ob seven chilluns. All dted now
	but one.	~.
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	Mali white folks djd~‘t sert me a few things ob how teract. bon‘t

L~ey ez pas‘ me. No manners Itall.

	In slavery days you didfl‘t hab ter Worry ‘boat yo clothes en ~~i~L~•8 but dese days you hab ter worry ‘bout eve‘ythtng.

	i~‘a.ongs ter de Baptist Chuch. Useter go ter camp—ineetin‘s en hab a big time wid good ~b1ngs ter eat. 1t~idn‘t go ter de
ter schul but Ilse l‘arned ax me ‘bout der young peeple.
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