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(Texas)
			:~•~	ELLEN POLK, born in Gonz8.les County,
		~		Texas, Age, 83. lives at 724 Vir...

	 ~4 ~			~ini8 Blvd.. ‚ San A,ntonio, Texas.
	~			Her hair is only s1i~ht1y grey at the

temples and. forehead and her eyesight is gnod.




	tu was a slave to Jim and Hannah Nations, Gonzales County,

Texas. Marse Jim was a fine looker, a heavy set man. He and. Missis lived in a bi~ lumber house with a shitigle roof. Dere was a nice yard. with lots of pecan trees ~xid de plantation fields h~d rail fences aroun‘ dem, Dere were fields o±~ cotton and co‘n an& a purty river ~ric1 ~1l kind of wild. flowers.

	“Marse Jim sho was good. to his slaves, but his foremens ~ He bought my inud~er and. some other slaves in Mississippi an~ dey walked frwti Mississippi to de Nations plantation in Gonzales.

	“Ma.rse Jim had nigh a hundred slaves. De quarters was built of logs and de roofs was river botto in boards. Some of de houses was built of 10Es like de columns on d.is house,

	“It was a fine, big pl~.ntation. De young women slaves wu~&ed in de fields ~nd de oie women slaves macle de cloth on de spinnin‘ wheels

and de looms. Den de women would go in de woods and take de bark frum de trees ~j~d pursley fru~ de ~roun‘ and mix dem wid copperas ~nd put it all in a big iron pot ~nd boil it. Den dey would strain de water off and dye de cloth, De color was brown ~nd, O Lawd, all de slaves wore de sejcie color clothes. Dey even niacle our socks on de plantation.