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	ELUSLAVE STŒRi~S	P~sge One	‚
. (Texas)

Zv~ILLI~ A~N SMITH w~s born in 1850, in Rusk Co., Texas, ~. s1~tve of George ~ashin~ton Trainmell, ~ pione~er p12~iter of the county, Treinmell bought Millie‘s mother ~nd three older children in Mis-S
~	sissippi before Millie‘s birth, and brought them to Texas~ leaving Millie‘s father behind. Later he rt~n away to Texas end persuaded Tr~rnell to buy him, so he could be with his f~iriiily.




	u ~ t ~ born ~fore w~r started and ‘members when it ceased, I guess rn~inmy‘E folks allus belonged to the Tr~mmelis, tc~iise I tmember my grandpa, Josh 0h11 es ‚ and my ~r~ndma, call Jeanet te. I ‚ s a st r~pp j‘ b 1g girl when they dies. Gr&~ndpa used to s~r he cone to Texas with Massa George Traminell‘s father when 1b.~sk County was jus‘ a big woods, and the first two years he w~,s }rnnter for the masse. He et~y in the woods all the time, killing deer ~n1 wild hawgs and turkeys ~d c oons and the like fcr the whit e folks to e~t „ and. the lend‘ s ftül of Indians. He kinda taken up with them and h~d holes iv. the nose and ears. They was put there by the Indiens for rings wh2t they wore. Grandpa could talk znos~ any Indian talk and he say he used to run off from his massa and st2y with the Indians for weeks . The mas s a ‚ d. go t o the Indian camp 1 coking for grandpa and. the Indians hided. him out and say, ‘No ~5e hirn.‘

	“How mammy and we1uns corne to Tex~is, Massa George brang his wife an~ three chilien from Mississippi and. he br~ng we suns. P~py belonged to Massa Moore over in Mississippi and. L~assa George didn‘t buy him, but after mammy got here, that ‘fore l‘s born, pappy ru~ns off and makes hie ~ to Texas and gits Massa George to buy him.