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	Interviewer	Miss Irene Robertson

	Person interviewed     Eattie Th~ap~son,~~ Widener, Arkansas

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	sI was born the second year after the surrender. I was born close to An ington, nu. My parents was Marish Thermon and 3ohnson Mayo. They had eight children. They belong to different owners. I heard mama say in slavery time she‘d clean her house good Saturday and clean up her children and start cooking dinner tore pa come. They looked forward to pa coming. Now that was at our own hoûse.

	. wManla was he ired. She was the house woman and cook for her young

mi stre sa ‚ M~i. se Sali is Therinon • She married Mr. Tobn Thermon. She was Miss Saille Royster till she married. I heard her say she raised Miss Sallie‘s children with her own. She was a wet nurse. I know Miss Saille was good to her. I don‘t think she was sold but her mother was sold. She would spin and weave and the larger children did too. They made bed spreads in colors and solid white. They called the colored ones coverlets. They was pretty. Mama helped quilt. She was a good hand at that. They made awful close stitches and backstitched every now and then to make lt hold. They would wax the thread to keep it from rollin€ ui and tangling.

	“Thread was in balls. They rolled it from skeins to bails. They rolled it from shuck br~ches to the balls. Put shucks around the spindle to slip it oft easy. I have seen big balls this big (2 ft. in diameter) down on the floor and mama knitting off of it right on. Vihen the feet wore out on socks and stockings, they would unravel them, save the good thread, and reknit the foot or toe or heel.