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O.	V. Grimn, son of Prank and- if
Mary Ann Marks, was born in slavery at
Bradly Co., Arkansas, June 26, 1859.
His owners, the Mobley faaily, owned
a large plantat ton and two or thr.e thousand slaves. Jack Mobley, Green‘s young aaat•r, was killed in the Civil War ‚ and Gre.n became one of the „ orphan chilien • ~ ~hsn the Ku Klux Klan becane active, the “orphan chillen“ were taken t, ~ittls Rock, Ark. Later on, Green moved ti D.i Rio ‚ Texas ‚ whers h. now lives.


	‚I i: was bo ~ ned in Arkansas • Prank Marks was ~y father and Mary Ann Marks ~y notber. She was ‘ n on the plantat ion, I had two brothers.

	$1 don‘ •menbr de quarter., 1~tt dey aas~ of had. plsnty, ‚ cwise dey was two, three thmsand slaves on de plantat ion. All ay kin people belonged to Massa ~obl.y. My grandfather was a atlinan and dey had on. de bigges‘ grist ailla in de country.

	I, ~ir Massa was good and we had. plenty for to sat • Den was n, jail for slaves on our pine. b~t not t~ar fron dire was a jail.

	“D. Ku Klux flan nads sv.rything pretty squally, so d.y taken d.s orphan chilien to Little Rock and. kep‘ ‘sa two, three years. Der. was lot s of slaves in dat country ‚ round Rob Roy end Ire. ligger Bend~ Old Churchill, who used to bi governor, had a plantation in der..

	“When I was nine years ol ‚ dey had. de Bruce and B.xt er revolu.. tua. ‘Twas nor, runnin‘ dan fightin‘ . Brace was ‘lected for governor but Baxter said he‘d b. govsrner if he had to run Brook. into de sia.

	0My ysung Massa, Jack Mobl.y, was killed in di war, te how I coae to be one of d orphan chilien.
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