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"I am told that the old fellow bought my mother when she was fifteen
years old. Finally he got hold of both my father and my mother* Both of
them put together didn f t have half colored blood* He must have loved them
a lot to work so hard to get them together. My father was half white, but
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his mother was a mulatto woman (Intorprotor* s oommeftfc—Sfeis should-laake-fern— /?
-a-^adrooa-)!; and my mother*s great-grandmother was a colored woman*
"I never knew much about race troubles. The best friend I ever had
was an old white grandmother. I was carefully shielded from all un-
pleasant things*
Fort Sumter
ff I was looking at the men when they were getting ready to get on the
train to go to Fort Sumter* Mr* John White, Captain John White, I knew him
personally* He was one of our neighbors* That was in Ebenezer that he was
one of our neighbors• The soldiers going to capture Fort Sumter caught the
Columbia and Augusta train going to Charleston* Looked like to me there
was ten thousand of them* John White was the captain and Beauregard was
the general#
ft I didn f t see the fighting because it was too far away* It was about .
eighty miles from us where they got on the train to Fort Sumter* They got
on the train at Hock Hill* Rock Hill was a city—small city—real close to
Ebenezer♦ We lived near Rock Hill* They was adjoining towns*
Patrollers and Good Masters
"The only patrollers I knew of was some that come on the place
once and got hurt* My mother had a brother Hobb and the patroller
tried to whip him* Hobb knocked all his front teeth out with a stick*
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