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Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed Diana Bankins. Brinkley, Arkansas
Age 66
W I was born at Arlington, Tennessee but tfien I was a chile the depot
was called With* My parents 1 name Sarah and Solomon Green* There was
seven girls and one boy of us* My sister died last year had two children
old as I was* I was the youngest chile* Folks mated younger than they do
now and seem like they had better times when there was a big family*
"Adam Turnover in Charleston, South Carolina owned my papa* When he
died they sold him* He was one year and six months old ^bien he was soia#
"I think S« C. Bachelor, around Brownsville, Tennessee, owned mama
first* She said they put her upon the block and sold her and her mother
was crying* The man after he sold her ask her if she didn't want him to
sell her* She said she didn't care but said she knowed she was afraid to
say she cared cause she was crying* She never seen her mama no more* She
was carried off on a horse* She was a little girl then. General Hayes
bought her and he bought papa too* They played together* General Hayes
made the little boys run races so he could see who could run the fastest*
"Papa said they picked him up and carried him off* He said they
pressed him into the breastworks of the war* He didn f t want to go to
war* £3r# Hayes kept him hid out but they stole him and took him to fight#
He come home* He belong to Jack Hayes, General Hayes 1 son* They called
him Mr* Jack or Mr* Hayes when freedom come. Mr. Jack sent him to
Gone, Mississippi to work and to Duncan, Arkansas to work his land*
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