Dibble, Fred, PJ., Beehier, Rheba, P.L,	111 Beaumont, Jeffer~•n, Dist. #3.



~- “I t‘ink dey stay at de ol‘ place a year or mo‘ at— ter freedom. Den dey ‘gin to drif‘ ‘roun‘ to diff‘rent place w‘ere dey find wuk to do. I stay wid de cl‘ folks and he‘p s‘po‘t (support) Tern wid what money I ~it for de wuk what I dom‘. My nia lef‘ my pa at de Ö1‘ plantation, and her and me and a gal what was ol‘er dan me, what was fly sister, us move.t‘

	“De fus‘ wuk I done and de fus‘ money I nick was pick— In‘ cotton for a white man. De fus‘ money I git I buy me a ol‘ Webster Blue—back speller. Lawd, I uster look at dat book sometime ‘till dem A 13 C‘s all run togedder seem like.“

	“Dat plantation was de Johnnie Murchison plantation.

Us stgy dere ‘bout five or sIx year‘. Atter day I lef‘ dere and went to wuk for~ cullud man what was name‘ Sam Scott. I wuk ‘roun‘ in de fIelT and go to mill when I was on dat place.“

	~‘i Tmemb~r seem‘ de sojers. Dey was a bi~ troop of

‘em corne in~rchin‘ down de road. Dey was all of ‘em dress‘ up in blue coats and some of ‘em had blue capes over dey shoulders. Dey had wagons and lots of sich t‘ings commt ‘long behin‘.“