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	.	ft When she was about fourteen and my father Kenry ~uiibar wanted to marry he had to first buy his freedozn.In them timee a slave couldnt marry a

free‘d. person. So he boi~ht his freedom from his Marster LLoyd Thillen, ~nd ~ good friend of Andrew Johnson,the ~resi-‘dent. My father ~n‘ him ~v&e friends too. ~o he bought his freedom, for just a little of soinethin‘ I disrem~nber what, t cause they didnt aim to make him buy his freedom high. He made. good

money tliough.He was a carpenter, blacksmirih, shoe xnak~r and knowed a lot more trades. His Master w~s broadhearted, and good to his s1i~ves, end he let ~em work at anything they want to, when t~iey was done. their Dart of white folks chore-‘
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L, 3oth my father ~nd mother was learned in the shoe makin‘ trade. ~‘hen they come to ICmxville to hue, and where I was born, they had~agreat big~

-	shoe shop out ~ere close to where Governor Browniow lived. Xnoxville~1ust had • three streets,two runxiin‘east and west and: one ru.n ~.north and south. I well

	remember when General B~rnside come to KnôxviI1e.~1that was endurin‘ the siege of RnoXville;Beforehe marched his men out to the Battle of fort ~aunders, he stqpped his solider ‘band in front of our ~hoe shop and serenaded my mother

	and fatber. I was a little boy and I climed lip on the ~rch be~nnisters and sat there and llesent to that music.~

	N I rememberanother big man coi~ie here once when I was a boy and I served the transient trade at a little eatin‘ place right where the Aticin Ho~tel is now. Jeff Davis come there to eat, when he stopped over between trains.That ~wa.s in 1869. No, I d.isremeznber what he eat or ho~ ~he bebave.He didnt seem no ~ different from any other man.He was nines lookin‘ wore a long tail coat and. ;~hisbqots was plenty b1acked~..He favoredpictures of Abraham ~ireoln~as about

‚.	—~ Le-‘heightand. had short,dark chin—whiskers. I were very busy at the time,an‘
	Is ~ ~ ~ ~itement I didnt know it.‘~	‚	.: