Pa~ge 0~e
F~L.SLAV~ STORIES (Tex~.e)

AI~D~RSON AND MI1~RVA EDWARDS, a Negro Baptist preacher and his wife, were ~1aves on adjoining plantations In Ruisk C0unty, Texas. Anderson was born ~‘t~rch 12, 1844, a slave of Major Matt G~ud, ~‚nd Minerva w~s born Pebru~.ry 2, 1850, a ~).ave ~f Mzjor 1‘lannlgan. As a boyAn&rew Would get a pss~ to visit his f~ther, who belong-.~ cd to ~jor Plz~nni~n, and. there he met Minerva. They worked for their iuasters until three years after the War, than moved to Harrison Oounty, married and reared sixteen children. Aru5rew and )iLinerva live in a 91fl211 but comfortable farmhouse two miles north ofMarshall. Minerva‘s memory is poor, z~nd. sh~ ~dded little to Anderson‘s story.
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	“My father was Sandy Flannigan and he had. ~in off from his first master in 1~ryl~~~d, on the east‘ahore, and. coins to Texas, and here a slave buyer picked him up aM sold chances on hi.mß If they could find his Marylpnd in~ster he‘d h~ve to go back to hini and if they couldn‘t the chances was good. Wash Edwards in Panola C0unty bought the chance on him, but he run. off from hirn, too, and come to Mai or Flannigan ‚ e in Ru~k CoUflty. 1 j,y ~j or Flwanigan h~d to pay a good lot to get clear title to him.

“My mammy was n~zn~d Minerva and her master was ~1aj or G~w1, ~nd

I was ‘born there on his plantation in 1866. Yo~ can ~sk that tax man

at Marshall ‚ bout my ~ge ‚ ‚ cause he ‚ s f lx ri~y ‚ xc mpt I on papers since

11m sixty. I had seven brothers and two sisters. There was Yra~k,

Joe, S~*dy and Gene, Preston and William and Sarah and Delilah, a*d

they all lived to be old folks and the younges ‚ s‘ died last year.

Poiks was more healthy when I growed. up and I‘m 93 new and ain‘t dead;

fact Is, I feels right pert moe‘ the time.

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