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Missouri

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LI3TA CHA~ABERS



	The subject of this sketch is Lula Chambers who is not certain of her age. However she knows she is past ninety and that she was born in Gelatin Cou.nty, Eentucky near Virginia. She lives
	  with a granddaughter, Ge~tve Holden, 262‘? Thomas Street,4~~t.*.-‘7(		~
	      Lying ill in a three~quarter metal bed In the front hal]. room
	 01G her granddaughter‘ s 4-room bri ok apartment ‚ the old lady is a
	 very cheerful person, with an exceptionally fair complexion. Her	.
	 browa hair is mixed with gray and she wears it quite long. Her		Ç
	 room is neatly furnished.		‚‚
	ø~ was born in Galatin County, Kentucky, more than ninety
	 years ago, slaves didn‘t know dere age in them days when I come

along. I do know I was born In Tuly and my mati~ny‘ s name was Pat— 87 Lillard . I done t ~ow nothing at all about no kind of father.
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Course, I had one but who he was I never knew. “I ain‘t never

even seen my mother enough to really know her, cause she was sold	?~

off the plantation where I was raised, when ] was too young to re—	~
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	mel3ther her, and I just growed up in the house With the white folks	~
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