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MART ARMSTRONG, 91, livis at 3326 Pisrei Av.. ~ Houston, T•xas . She was born on a farm near St. Loais, Missouri, a slays of Tt1~
urn c:!.~.1and. Kir ±‘athsr, Sa~ Mama, bslongsd to a “nigger trad•r, ~ iho baa a farm adjoining th• Cisys-. land plac..



	~I~s Aunt Mary, aU right, bat you all has to ~öcuss me if I don‘t talk so good, ‘Cause I~s been f.elin‘ poorly for a spell and I am ‚ t so yœng no more • Law as ‚ when I think back what I used t o d~o, and. now it ‚ s all I can do t o hobbl• ‚ round a 1 ittle . Why ‚ Mise O]. ivi a, WY i~istrns, used. to put a glass plumb fUI of water on my~ head~ and then have me waltz ‘r~and the room, and I‘d. dance so imoothiike, I don‘t spill nary drap.

	w That was in St • Louis ‚ where I ‚ s born. You ses • my aana belong to old. Wj~j~ Cleveland and old. Polly Cleveland, an they was the mean~ est two white folks what e~er liv.&, ~cause they was aUu~e beatin‘ on their slaves. I know, ‘canes a~zaa told ~‚ and I sears about it other plaose ‚ arid besides ‚ old. P~lly, eh. was a P~lly devil if there ever was one ‚ and she whipped ay 1. i ttli si ster etat was only nine months old and jes‘ a baby to death. She come end took the diaper offen ay little sis« ter and whipp,d till the blood .1e.‘ ran —— ils‘ C&USI ehe cry like all babies d.o~ and it kilt 1*7 sistsr. I neyer forgot the)t~ but I ~ot some even with that old Polly d.itl and ‘ s this~am‘way.