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	“They come and got me ~ and carried me to Richmond - . ha‘ ~ where they sold em. Sold five o1~ us in one bunch. Sold my two brothers iii New Orleans - Robert and Jes e e • Never a e ed them no more. Never seed my mother again after I was sold.

	“Yes ‚ clii le ‚ I was here In Arkat~sas when the war started, s o you know I been here a long t line.

	UI was here when they fit the last battle In Pine Bluff. They called lt Marrnaduke‘s Battle and they fît lt on Sunday morning. They took the old cotehouse for a battery and throwed up cotton bales for a breastworks. They fit that Sunday and when the Yarilcees started firm‘ the Rebels went back to Texas or wherever they come from.

	“When we heard the Yankees was contint we went out at night and hid the silver spoons and si]jrer in the toilet and burted the meat. After the war was over and the Yankees had gone home and the jayhawkers had went In ~ then we got the silver and the meat. Yes, honey, we seed a time - we seed a time. I ain‘t grumnblln‘ - I tell em I‘m havin‘ a wusser time now than I ever had.

	“Yankees used to call me a ‘know nothin‘ cause I wouldn‘t tell where things was hid.

	“Ye s ‚ obi le ‚ ‘ ni thi s way ~ I like e verbody in thi a world. I never was a mother, but I raised everbody else‘s chiflun. I ain‘t flOth1X1~ but a old manuny. White and black calls me manmia. I‘ 11 answer at the naine.

	ni was married twice. Mylast husband and me lived together fifty years. He was a preacher. My first husband, the old