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30777 3()9
Interviewer Samuel S, Taylor
I Person interviewed Bllen Briggs Thompson
3704 W. Twelfth Street, Little Rock. Arkansas
Age 83
Birth and Relatives
*I was born in October 1844, in Nashville, Arkansas* I don f t remember
the exact day* I have went through thick and thin. I was a small girl when
my mother died* I got the rheumatism so bad I can't hardly walk* It hurts
me now* My oldest brother, Henry Briggs, was five years older than me, and
my youngest brother, Isaac Briggs, was five years younger than me* I was
born October, but he was born at Christmas Eve just after surrender* My
oldest brother died last year* My youngest brother is in Galveston, Texas*
If he is living, he is there* My name was Briggs before I married* I was
just studying about my sister-in-law when you come up* If I could get the
*
money, I would go to see her* She was my oddest brother's wife* Her name
was Frances Briggs after she married* She lives in Emmet, Arkansas, where
he married her* I just had two brothers, no sisters*
"My husband's name was Henry Thompson* He has been dead about twelve
or thirteen years* I have had so much sickness I can't remember exactly* I
married him a long time ago* I got it put down in the Bible* I married
yonder in Emmet, Arkansas* I ain't got the Bible nor nothing* My brother
had it and he is dead*
"My father'3 name was Daniel Briggs* He died in Hot Springs* We were
small children when he and my mother was separated* He was in one place and
we were in another* He tried to get us children when he died, but we was
little and couldn't get to him* My mother was dead then*