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MO1~RO~ BRACKINS, born in }~onroe Co., Mississippi, in l8~53, was the propert:? o~! George Reedes. He was brought to Medin~ County, Pexas, when two ye~rs old. Monroe lec~rned to snare ~nd break~ mustangs ~nd became ~. cowpuncher. He lives in Hondo, Tex~s. He h~s an air of pride ~nd self-~respcct, and e~l~1n~ that he used little dialect because he learned to talk fro~n the “white folkstt as he was growing u.p.



UI was bo‘n in Mississippi, Monroe County. Itra 84 years old. My m~ster, George Reedes, brought me, ny father ~nd mother ~nd ~y two sisters to Tex~.s when I was two years o‘.d. My father waS 1~1elson Brackins and my i~ther was Rosanna.


I1~4y mcster settled here at a place called Malone, on the Rondo River, He went into the stock business. Our house there was a little, old picket house with a grass roof over it out of the sage grass. The bed was m~‘de with a tick of simeks and the children slept on the floor. The boss h~d just a little lumber hou.se. Later on he te~cen us ~bout 20 miles futther down on the Eond.o, the Old. Adams R~mch, snd he h~d a rock house.

I was abo~it six years old then. I had some shoes, to keep the thorns outa my feet, ~nd I had rawhide le~çgin‘s. ~e just h~4 such clothes a~ we could get, old. patche&-up clothes. They just had. that jeans cloth, homemade clothes.

‘II was with George Reedes 10 or 12 years. It was my first trainin ~ le~arnin ~ the s t ock busine ss and horse breà in • ‚ Be yas toi~able good. to us, to be slaves as we was. His brother had a
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