SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

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Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson
Person Interviewed Tom Stanhouse
R. P. D.
Age 74 Brinkley, Ark.
n I was born close to Greenville, South Carolina. I lived
down close to Spartanburg. My mother was named Luvenia Stanhouse
and Henry Stanhouse. They had nine children. Grandma belong to
Hopkins but married into the Stanhouse family. Grandpa's name
was Tom. They set him free. I guess because he was old. He
lived about mong his children.
"When they was set free old man Adam Stanhouse was good to
em. He treated em nice but they never got nothing but their
clothes. They moved on another place and started working share-
cropper.
"Before freedom old man Adam Stanhouse would give my pa a
pass or his pocket knife to show to go to see my ma. She lived
at Dr. Harrison's farm five miles apart. They all knowed Adam
Stanhouse's knife. I don't know how they would know it. He never
let his Negroes be whooped unless he said so. Owners didn't 'low
the Ku Klux whoop hands on their place.
"Adam Stanhouse brought my pa from Virginia with him. Some
of them men thought might near much of his slaves as they did
their children. Or I heard em say they seem to. My pa married
ay ma when she was thirteen years old. They had nine children.
"I heard ma say Dr. Harrison practiced medicine. His wife
was named Miss Lizzie. They had two boys and three girls.