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	“I was born up near Cotton Plant but took down near Kelena to ujv.~ My parents named Saille and Bob Martin. They had asve ~ n childr.n. I heard mother say she waa sold on a block in ILt.aiaelppi when ehe waa twelve years old. My father was a Creek Indian ; . he was dark. Mother was a Ohoctaw Indian; 8he was bright. Mother died when I was ~t a girl and left a tarn— ily on my har~ds. I sent my baby brother end sister to school and ~ I cookd on a boarding train. The railroad hands WOrkiag on the tracks rocaed end. et on the train. They are all dead now And I‘m ‘lone in the world.

	“My greatest pleasure wee indepsndence~mmake my money, go end spend it

as I see fit. I waan‘t popular with ~n. I nsver danced. I did sell

herbs for diarrhea and piles and ‚ what ail s you. ‚ I don‘ t sell no rnors. Folks too close to drug stores now. I had long sti‘aigbt hair nearly to ~ knees. It come out after a spell of typhoid fevero . It never corne in to do no good.“ (Baidheaded like a man and she shaves. $he is~ a hei‘rnaphrodit•) reason for never marrying.) ‘I made and saved up at one ti~ twenty—three thousand dollars cooking and field work. I let it ~1iP out frOEn ~ in dribs,

	“1 used to run frorn the Yankees. I‘ vs seen them go in drovee along the road. They found old colored cxtple, went out, took their hog and• made thera barbecue it, They drove up a stob, nailed~ a piece to a tree and stacked their guns. They rested around %iPII everything was ready.