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He didn‘t die den but a few years later he did die. Dat was the first and the last time any cooking ever was done in that house on Sunday. ~ ~

	When master told us we was free it didn‘t take much ‘fect on US. He told us we could go where we pleased and corne when we pleased that we didn‘t have to work for him any more ‘less we wanted to. Most of us slaves stayed right there and raised our own crops. Master helped us much as he could. Some of us he gave a cow Or a mule or any~ thing he could spare to help us. Some of us worked on the saine plantation and bought our own little farms and little log cabins, and lived right there till master dies aiid the family moved away. Some of us lived there right on. Waster married me tocrie of the best colored men in the world) Benjamin F. Hines. I had five chullun by him, four girls and one boy, two of the girls and the boy are dead. Dey died ‘bout 1932 or 33
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I stay with one a while, den I go and stay a ~hi1e wid the other one.
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	we didn~t have no public schools in dem days‘ri time. What little learning you

got it from the white cI~t1len.“


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	/‘~ .~ Marriah is about four feet and a half tall neti~—.fivo -~-e.t weigh~~. about one ‚I, ~_j~~ji~ ~

hi,~ndred paunde, i~i~,;r a pretty head of white hair covering her round brown face • Her

memory of her mother and father is very v4.gue,due to th~-‘~eath when she was young.

She is able to dress hersčlf practically with‘~out help, and to get about from plaie
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-	to place alone, enjoying talking about religion an~tho wor~f today.