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AUSTIN GRL~T case to Texas from
Mississippi with his grandfather, father, i~other and brother. George Haz‘per owned the fwaily. He raised cotton on Peach Oreek, near Gonzales. Austin was hired out by his master and. after the war his father hired
him out, to the Riley Ranch on Seco
Creek, above Dthanis. He then
bo~ht a faxa in the slave settle~
	ment north of Hondo.	Re is 89
or 90 year s old, •



	~	mixed up on my age, Itm tfraid, fr th~ Bible got burned up that the master‘s wife had our ages in. She told. nie my

age, which would mace me 89, but I believe I cotnenearer beint 91, accordin‘ to the way my mother figuxed it ouk~.

	“I belonged to George Harper, he was Judge Harper. The‘ was ay father, mother and two boys, He brought us from Mississippi, but I don‘ ‘member what part they come from. We settled down here at Gonzeles, on Peaöh Creek, and he fa~m4d one year there. Then he

~	moved out here to Medina County, right here on Hondo Creek. I dont ~aember how maw acres he b&d, but he had. a big farm. He had. at least e ight whole slave fwnilies. • He sold ~em when he want~1 money.

	«My mother‘ s name was Mary Harper and. my father ‚ s name was Ike Harper, and they belonged to the Ha.rpers, too. You know, after they was turned loose ~ they h~d to name themse].~es. My father nwned hiaself Grant and bis b~otb~er nwi~ed himself Glower, and my grandfather

	was Pilinore . They ha~ some kin ‚ of law you had to git away from your ~ ~ bøsst n~e so they ns~ied themselves.




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