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K Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed Liza Moore Tanner» Helena f Arkansas
Age 79
tt I was born in north Georgia* It was not fer from Rome* We belong to
Master Belton Moore and Miss Jane Moore« They had a big family, same grand-
children old as their own* That was my job playing wid the children* My
parents 1 name Rob Moore and Pilfy Galley. She lived five miles from Belton
Moore's house* She was hired out over at Moore f s the way she and papa met
up. I know now I was hired out too. I run after them children a long time
it seemed like to me. I loved them and they cried after me# I get so tired
I'd slip off and go up in the loft and soon be asleep. I learned to climb a
ladder that very way* It was nailed up straight against the side of the
wall. They'd ask me where I been. They never did whoop me fer that* I
tell f em I been f sleep. I drapped off f sleep. I was so tired. Papa helped
with the young calves and the feeding and in the field too. Mama was a fast
hand in the field* They called her a little guinea woman. She could outdo
&8 when I was grown and she was getting old. She washed fer the Calley.'s*
113. I remember they was a old man and woman. Mama lived in the office at
their house. He let her ride a horse to Moore's to ?/ork. I rode home wid
her many a time. She rode a side saddle. I rode sideways too. She used a
battling stick long as she lived when she washed*
"Papa died two years after the surrender in Atlanta, Georgia* The
lioore's moved there and he went along. He left mama at Master Calley f s
and I was still kept at the old home place* Aunt Jilly kept me