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SUSAN ~RB1TT ‚ 87 ‚ wa~ b.r*
li	Bü~sk C•. ‚ Texas ‚ a slave
	-	ofAndrewWatt.Ayear~fter
		she W25 freed, Susian movec3~
		with her parente to Harrison
		Co., and stayed on their farm
		until she married Will Merritt.
		They reared fifteen children.
		Susai has little t, s~y of
		her l~ife from 1865 to the pres-~
		ent, stating that they got
		along on the farm they werked
		on shires. Since her huzbath‘s
		death Susaa lives with a son,
		Willie, west of Marshall, Texas,
		on the Hynsoa Springe Road,



	“I couldn‘t tell how old I le, but does you think I‘d ever forgit theza slave thys? I ‘hey. I‘s ‘bout 87 ormore, ‘cause I‘s ~ good size gal spinnin all the thread foes the white folks when they lets us loose after siu‘render.

	~I~e born right down ir~ Eb~isk Cotinty, not a long way fr~m Henderson, :;nd Massa Andrew Watt ~xn my owner. My p~ppy, Hob Pollins, he corne from

.	North Carolina ~.nd belonged to D~e Blr~kely and. m~my come from Mississippi. Mz2mmy h.c~ve eleven of us chilien but four dice when they babies, but Albert, hob, J0hn, ~ Anna, Lul~. and me lives to be growed ~~nd mprried.

	“Massc~ ~tt lived in a big log house what sot on a hill so ~rOu could see it ‘riund for mile., and us lived over in the field in little lo~ huts, ~ll middled along together. They have homemade beds nailed to the wall and baling sack mattresses, and us call them bunks. Us never had no money bu.t plenty clothes a*d gru.b and wear the same clothes all the year ‘round. Massa Watt made our shoes for winter hisself and he made fur*iture and saddles and harness ajid run a grist mill and a whiskey et ill there on the place. That man had ev‘ ythimg~ .