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	(Texas)
		HENRY LEWIS was born in 1835,
	\;)J	at Pine Island, in Jefferson.
	‘E~ ~	C o. ‚ T exas ‚ He was owned by
		Bob Cade. Henry‘s voice is
		low and somewhat indistinct
		and it was evidently a strain
		on his vocal chords and. also
		on his memory, to tell the story
		0±‘ his life, He lives with one
		0±~ his daughters, In Beaumont,
		who• supports him, with the aid
		0±1 his pension,




tIuold Bob Cade, he my massa, and Annie Cade, she my missus, Dey

had a big plantation over in Louisiana and ‘nother in Jefferson Q0unty, out at Pine Island. Its born a hunnerd. and one year a~go, on Christmas Dey, out

at Pine Island, If I lives to see next Christmas day ‘gain, I‘ll be a hunérd two year old.

t1My mammy she come from Mis‘sippi and she name‘ JMy Lewis. Washington

Lewis, one de slaves on Massa Bob‘s Louisiana pD~ntation, he my daddy. I can‘t ‘aiember nobody else ‘cept my greatgrainina, Patsy. She‘s 130 when she die. She look awful, buSt den she my folks. M~r own dear mammy was 112 yeai‘~ old when she die. She have ten chilien and de big~es‘ portion dem born in slavery time.

~	~y ~ ~ ~ L~I$.an .~ dy and Louise. t name‘ after my daddy brudder, Henry Lewis,

	“My white folks have a plantation in Lcnils lena, at Caginiv, and stay over dere in‘ de time. I ~inember when old Mass4Bob used t o come t o Pine Island ~ to stay a month or two, all us li‘l chilien gather round him and. he used to throw out two bitses and. big one cent pieces ~fl1Ofl~St US~ jisi to see U~S scrammel for dem, ~ Christmas time come round dey give us Christm~s gift and a whole

week for holiday.

	I, ~ never been no nearer east dan Lake Charles ai~1 dat been. lately, so