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	ç~	~XSL4~V$~ SPORI~S	Paie One	j
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‚~	Uncle Cinto Lewis, ex—slave,
		claims to be 111 years old..
		He lived in a brick cabin with
		his wife, Aunt Lucy, on the
		Hwitin~ton Plantation, in Bra—
		z~ria Co., Texas. Miss Kat•
		Ru~ntin~ton sa~s the cabin oc-
		cupleci by the old. couple is
		part of the old slave qu~arters
		built by J. Greenville MeNeel,
		who owned the plantation before
	.	Marion Hantin~ton, Miss Kate‘s
		father, bou~ht I t . Alth~a~h
		Uncle Ointe clairiis to be 111,
		he says he was n~med San Jacinto
		because he was born during the
		“San Jacinto WarU ~ woild
		i~ake his a~e 101.




	‚ su.h, I ~ s Cint •.~ Phnt ‚ s lucy over there ‚ she my wife and I calls her Red Heifer, ‘cau~se her papa‘s n~me was J~aan ~n& he was a Mexican, She and me raarry right after ‘m~ucipation. We come 1on~ W8~ and we &;°in‘ te die to~ther.

.	~They named me San Jacinto ‘cause I‘s born dunn‘ ae San

Jacinte war, b~it they calls me Cinto. l‘s born in Fort Bond County, up near Richmond ‚ and. ny old marster was Marse Dave Randn ‚ and. his wife, Miss Nancy, was my aissue. She was sister to Marse John McN.e1, what with his brothers owned. all de land hereabouts.

WI ‘asiabers once I slips awa~r came dark from de plantation,

with s•iie •there. We is slippin‘ ‘long quiet like and. a pad&le roller
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j~zi*p o~Lt fron behin‘ ~ b~eh and say, ‘,$et‘s see tour Pass.‘ We didn‘t

have nine but I h~s a piece of paper and I 4ves it t. him and he walks t. wh.r. it am ~•re lieht ‚ and then w. run, right tbreu~h old burdock

bushes with briars stickin‘ us and. everything. Iffen he cotched ua w. eh.‘ gits a hidin‘.
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