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Interviewer Samuel S« Taylor _____________
Person interviewed James Beeves
2419 V. Twentieth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
Age 68 Occupation Preacher
*I was born in 1870 down in Ouachita County about fourteen miles south
of Camden going on toward SI Dorado* They dldn v t have no railroad theft* I
was a young man when they put the branch through* You see, I was born five
years after slavery, but I remember my mother, my grandmother, and my great-
grandmother* They taken me and talked to me freely and I know everything
they knew*
Great-Grandmother on Mother's Side
"My great*grandmother belonged to the Goodmans* Her master was named
Bob Goodman* She lived to get one hundred thirteen years old* Prom the
children of the old master, I got the information concerning her age* I
looked it up after emancipation* One of old master f s sons was named Frank
Goodman, and another was named Norphleet Goodman, and there was another
whose name I don f t recall*
"My grandmother, great-grandmother, was named Frankie Goodman* I
wasn f t here in slavery time, but I knew her after emancipation*
Grandmother on Mother 1 3 Side
"My grandmother was named Hannah Goodman, These were different Good*
iaana but they were kin to these others* There was a large family of them*
I don't know the correct age of my grandmother but she was up in the
eighties when she died*
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