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and my two oldest sisters* Her name was Jilly Galley* I seen mama right
often* They fetched papa back to see us a few times and then he died* We
all went to Atlanta where he was buried*. Mama lived to be purty nigh a
hundred years old* She had fourteen children* I had two sisters and eight
half-brothers and three half-sisters* Some died so young they never was
named* J3y stepfather was mean to her and beat her, caused some of their
deaths* She was a midwife in her later years* She made us a living till
I married* She was gone with Dr. Harrison a lot* He f d come take her off
aud bring her home in the buggy* I married and immigrated to Dell, Arkansas*
We lived there a year and went to Memphis* Mama come there and died at my
house* She got blind* Had to lead her about* My steppapa went off and
never come back* He got drunk whenever he could get to it* We hunted him
and asked about him* I think he went off with other women* We heard he
did*
freedom--'I heard Miss Jane say when she was packing up to go to
Atlanta, 'I will get a nurse there. They will make her go to school** I
thought she was talking about me* I wanted to go* I loved the children*
I got to go to school in the country a right smart* I can read and write*
He and my two sisters all was in the same class* It seemed strange then*
we had a colored man teacher, Mr* Jacobin* It was easier for me to learn
than my sisters* They are both dead now*
W I got three living children—one here and two in Memphis* After I got
iay hip broke I live about with them so they can wait on me*
W I don f t know about this new way of living* My daughter in Memphis
reiaing her little girl by a book* She don f t learn her as much manners as
children used to know* She got it from the white lady she works for* It tells
how to do your child* Times done changed too much to suit my way of knowing*
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