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:~x~g.î~&v:~ STORIZS
(Texas)



HAG•AR LEWIS, tall and erect at 82
years of ace, lives at 4313 Roea
St . ‚ El P2.50, Texas. She was born
	a slave of the Martin family w4	.	~ ~ ‚	~ ‚~ ~
	was given with her mother w~d ~Pami1v	~‚
	to M~xy Martin, whe~i she married		~ f
	John M. Mc?ar].and. They lived near	I ~ ~	~P 1‘
	Tyler, Smith Co., Texas. When freed	: :‘	J ~
	she rexaained with the Mc~Par1ande	.~ ~ ~ ~	~ ; ~ fyi ~‚ : ‚
	until sher~arr1edA. Lewis ~ndrno~ed	~.~1l1~:.~4;v ~
	to San Antonio, Texas. Widowed~ early,		I	‚
	she re~ieed two sons. One, chief	~	~	~ . ~ ; ~ ~ ~
	electrical engineer with. the U. S•. ~	~ ~.. ~ ~ ~
government, lives in New York City.	~
He protides for his 2ged. r~other.



	UI was born Jan. 12th, 1855. My ~Pirst owners was the }1tartine, eM when their da~ighter, Mary, married, I was give to her. My a~raa lived to 112 ye~rs old. She had. sixteen children. I was
	the baby.	~	.

	“Mi ssu~s Mary Mc:~‘ar1and, my mothe ‘ s iatesus and raine ‚ taught us children with her own; Learned u.s how to read and write.
	She treated us just like we were her children.		 We had ‘very strict

leaders, iiy mother and. Missus Mary. She‘d say, ‘M~va~r ~1z~ay r~3ther) ‚ tyoutll have to come and whop Oscar and Ha~ar, they‘s fightixL~‘ MwEßy Lize would say, ‘No, I ~ whop 1eis, I~1I just punish ~eii.~ ~nd

wetd hare to stand with our backs to each other, ~ My ralasus neyer did .auch Who~ppint.

	~~1~3~dincabinsaadeof1Oge andchinkelwithmud mortes. We ha~ beds t~iat ha~1 only one leg; they fit in each corner of the walls. ~hey ‚ was strong, ou, We could jump on ~ eta and h~~e lot s of fuit. !e . did~~t sta~.iu qu~rt~rs auch. The cabins was near a creek where willows ~2‘ew and wet d aa~:e stick horses out of ~ ein. We called it c~ir horse lot. 0* t~e fera was a epiing That threw water h&~h~ and wetd go fishing in
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Paie One