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	.	~X~~SLAV! STOB1~S	. ~ . Pags One • ~ ~ ~ ~: ~
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WILLI»~f• STONE WAS born	~
.	•~d~n a covered wagon, on the way from Alabama to Tsxas ‚ abmt ~ 1863 ~ Though h. was t oo sm~L1 t Q remember slays days ‚ he does rec211 many things told. him b~r lits parentsand other ex~..s1aves. William llvøs In Mart, Texas,




	~	“My parents done told me where Is borned, It am In a covered wagon on de way from Alabama t o Te~xas ‚ two years I fore freedom . Old. }lar se ‚ Lern Stone, he left Alabama for Texas, where de war n~t so bad, ~nd brung some he slaves with him. He done lost so much In Alabama, Yankees b~irn1n~ he house and. cotton and kuhn‘ he stock, he want to git ‘way from dire,

	“First he corne to Rtisk Cow~ty, den goes back to Shreveport and st~ys till freedom, Pappy and m~umy was Louis and Car‘line Stone. I lived in Louisiana till I‘s growed.

	8Mainmy ~ pappy done told. rn~ ~ll tbout de old plantation. It ~m hundreds of acres of land, part worked and part jus‘ timber and pasture. It was near Montgomery, and de~r rai s.d mors cott on clin anything else ‚ but had ~some corn and peas and cz~ne, Dsy made sorghum and ribbon cane ‘lasses and had boum‘ vats fo~ sugar, too.

. ~ “D. soldiers corne through. Dey named, Yankees, Dey nu~ke inwnmy cook soinethin‘ to s~iy and den kil~t all de hawgs and took de meat with dim,, ~nd burn de barn and house, Old Mars. had. pens to put cotton In, hid. way out in de bresh, D‘y picked I t in gunny sacks and hi des ‚ and slips ‚ I t out to de gin‘ b~~night and. tries to sel]. It ‘for. deni‘Yankees finde it and burns

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•“M~mmy say de7 ail w.rzt~ to church and had to d.riv. four‘ hors~~~ ‚ when

di roads mixdcty in winter and sand d..p ln summer. ~ey allus carry. dinner.
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