SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

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him in the Mississippi Eiver between Grensville and Vicksburg. The remain- '
ing forces of the expedition returned to Spain.
Tf So me time in 1816 my mother f s mother was born* B|y mother's mother was
Spanish. My mother says she was well educated. Mother and her mother have
Spanish mixed with J&iegro blood. I had a sister named Mary and a brother
named John.
"Armarilla, my grandmother came here from Cuba through to Gaines Landing.
Her son %min and her husband were with her. !Ehey crossed the Mississippi
Eiver and she said they stopped at the old De Soto camp. A short distance
west of this place they met two men—Nick Trammel and John Morrow who prof-
ited (dealt) in Hegro slaves. My grandfather and mother employed these men
to guide them to Coola Pabre(?) Camden?. Prom Little fiiver to Dooley f s Perry
these men carried them to Waco, Texas. They killed my grandfather and/kept
my grandmother forcing her to marry either a half-breed Mexican, anclndian
or a isegro. It was near Waco in Hickman Prairie that mother was born. The
boy Edmin was returned to Dooley f s Perry and remained in the vicinity until /
he was about seventeen years of age. He then lived in the vicinity of Little
Hock about six months before returning to Mexico* My grandmother said that
iir. Trammel and Mr. Morrow probably thought he might cause trouble and killed
him as she never saw him after he returned from Little Bock. Mother was held
in Lafayette County at a point .where the river crossed and joined Bowie County
(Texasj and where Louisiana bounded the south.
ft De Soto traveled by land not by boat. He had a force of about 550 persons.
The women dressed as men. My grandmother was with her husband.
"My mother was a slave. She was held in Bowie County, Hickens Prairie,
ty iiob iTammel. They kept her locked up and I have heard mother say that she
^sed whale bone, card bats and a spinning wheel, finally thsy got so hot