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My mother~.1n..1aw wa~ married three tin~g. ~he had a slavery husband nair~d Nathan Moseby. Mter he died she married Abe Ware. Then he died. ~ie

married Mitchell Black and he died bug before she died, She wa~ ninety— two years old when she died end could outdo ~ till not but a few yeara ago. Her strength left her all at once. $he lived on then a f‘ew years.

	“She always told n~ Master Mann‘ ~ fO1ICE was very good to her. She said she never remembered getting a whooping. But then she was the beat old thing I ever seen in my life. ~he waa really good.

	“One 2tory she tole more than others wa~ : Up at I~s Are country the Yankees come and made them give up their sornething-to~eat. Took and waated together. Drunk up their milk and it turning, (blinky—-ed.). She‘d laugh at that. They kept their grocerisi in holei in the ground. The Yankee.

jumped on the colored folk. to make them tell where wa~ their provi.ion. Some of them had to tell where .ome of it was, They was .cared. They didn‘t tell where it all wai,

	“V~hen they went to ]~s Arc and the gates waa closed they had to wait till next day to get their provisions. They had to start early to get back out of the picket. before they closed.“