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#730
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816 Walnut Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas
A;7A  84
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	“I was plowing when they surrendered. I had just learned to plows and was putting up some land, My young master come home and was telling me the War was ended and we was all free,

“I was born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, I think lt was about Vi)~V)
1854, My father‘s name ~ ~ my mother‘s‘— ~ ‚ I knew them both.

My mother belonged to Sterling and my father belonged to a man nan~d Huf Richmond Huff.

	“We lived in Lauderdale County. Huff wou.ldn‘ t sell my father and my people wouldnt t sell my mother, They lived about a mile or so apart. They didn‘t marry in them days. The niggers didn‘t, that Is, Father would just corne every Saturday night to see my mother. His cabin was about three miles from her‘s. We moved fromLauderdale County to Scott County, Mississippi, arid that separated mama and papa. They never did meet again. Of courses I mean it was the white people that moved, but they carried mains and us with them, Papa and mama never did meet again before freedom, and they didn‘t

meet afterwards,

	“My mother had twelve children.--.eight girls and four boys, She had one by a man named Peter ~aith, ~ She was away from her husband then. She had four by my father—two boys and two girls;~y father‘s name was Peter Huff, My mother‘s name was Mary Sterling~ I never did see my father no more after we moved away from him,