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Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed Gasper Rumple, Be Tails Bluff t Arkansas
Age 78
"I will be, providin 1 the good Lord spare me, 79 years old the
first day of January. I was born in Lawrence Countyf South Carolina*
The Big road was the dividing line between that and Edgefield County*
My mother belonged to John Griffin* His wife named Rebecca* Ily father
was a Irishman* Course he was a white man —» Irishman* Show I did
know him* He didn f t own no slaves* I don f t guess he have any lpnd*
He was a overseer in Edgefield County* His name was Sphi^p Rumple*
What become of him? He went off to fight the Yankees and took Malaria
fever and died on Red River* I could show you bout where he died*
"My mother had a big family* I can't tell you much bout them# I
was the youngest * She cooked up at John Griffins. He was a old man
and the land was all his wife's* She was old too* She had some grown
girls. He had no children* They called him Pa and I did too* I
stayed round with him nearly all the time helping" him*
n He had a room and she had a room* I slept on a bed —* little
bed — home-made bed •— in the room wid him and she slept in the room
with her two girls and my mother slept in the kitchen a whole heap so
she be there to get breakfast early* They riz early every mornin 1 *
John Griffins wife owned four plantations more than 160 acres in each
one, but I couldn't say how much*
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