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:~.ucy LEWIS, wife of Cinto Lewis, does not know her aie, but Is very aged in appearance, about four feet tall and weighs around 65 or 70 pounds. She was born on the MeNeel plentation at Pleasant Grove, land now occupied by No. 2 Camp of thé Clemens Prison Farm. Her master was Johnny McNeel, brotherof j. Greenville MeNeel. Eis sister married Dave Randon, Cinto‘s utaster. Cinto and Lw~y‘s cabin is furnished with an enomous fourposter bed. axid. some chairs. Pots, pans, kettles and ju~s bang on the walls. The fireplace has a skillet ant beanpot in the as~ss. The old people are almost blind.



	“Yo~~ aU white folks ilLs‘ set a bit while I eats me a little bseakfast • I got me a little flap j ack and. some clabber here . Den old flies gobble it ~ for me, don‘t I ~it to it fust. Me and Cjnto ‘botit starve, old hard time ‘bout ~it us. I surs wishes I could find some of Marse John Dickinson‘s folks, I she‘ go to them.

	“Me and Cinto ~ot nine he~ grandehullen down in Gal‘veston, b‘tit dey ~ write or nothin‘. All o~r own children ~re dead. DeY ~ Lottie and. Loi~tisa an& Alice, Dey was John, too, but he was SO little and scrawny he die when he a month old. We call him after l4arse John, which we all lev. so ~i~ich.

	“My is~ma‘s name was lottie E~ilton arid she was born at de

Cranby Camp for Johnny MoNeel . My papa was ~ Mezican and went by name of J*an.

	“I don‘t hardly recoflec‘ when we ~it married. I hardly t~trn fift eon and dey was fat on dese he re old. bones den ‚ and I ha~ ins & PU.~tY white calico dress to git married. in. It was low in d.e neck with ~f
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