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~	Precilla Gray 807 EwIng Ave.
	~	Nashville, Term.

	I think I‘se 1O‘7 Y‘ar~ olé. Wuz~ bawn in Williamson County ‘fore de Civil wah. Guess de reason I hab. libed so long wuz cose I tiik good keer ob rnahself en wore warm clo‘es en still do,~w‘ar rnah yarn petty~ coats now, ~ ~Iab had good health ah inah life. Hab tu.k very lettle medicine en de wu st sIckness I eber had wuz small~pox. I‘ se bin a
	widah ‘bout 70 y‘ars.	~

	Mah mammy dt ed Wt en I wuz young. but mali daddy lihed ~er be 103 y‘ars oie. I nebber went ter schul a day in mali life, iatied ‘fore freeduin en w‘en I got free, had ter wuk all de time ter mek a libin‘ fer mah two chilien. 0ne1i~sin California en I lives wid de uther, tergedder wid rnah great, great, grandson, five y‘ars oie, in Nashville.

	Mah fust marster en missis. wuz Amos en Sophia Holland en he made a will dat we slaves wuz äll ter be kep‘ among de f~‘ ly en I wuz heired fuir~ one faxn‘ly ter ‘noth~r. Wuz owned under de “will“ by Haddas Holland, MISSiS Mary Haddock en den Missis Synthia Ma‘ led Sam Pointer en I 11b cd wid her ‘tu freedum wuz ‘dared.

	Mali fust mistress had three looms en we had ter mek clothes fer

~	~~rypne on de plan‘ashun. I wuz taught ter weav‘, card, spin en i~J. ~ ter wuk in de fiel‘s. I wuz ‘feared ob de terbacker ~ at

fust but Aunt Frankie went ‘long by me on showed me how ter pull de w‘urn‘S~ headoff. Hab housed t~rbacker till 9 o‘clock at nite. Our

‚~ niarster whupped us w‘en we needed hit. I gotmennya whuppin‘. :~ Marster AflIOS wuz a great hunter en had lots ob dogs en me en ~ mah ~ousln had de job ob cookin‘ dog food en feedin‘ de dogs. One

day de marster went buntin‘ en lèf three dogs in de pen fer us ter


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