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Itofcerviewer »Samael S* Ufaylor
Person interviewed I * l ^ ra fl^ra** 0 **
1215 W* Tweirly-Fourfc!b. Street, Little Rook, Arkansas
Age IPS?
"]$r native home is Alabama* I was born not far from Midway, Alabama,
about twelve miles from Clayton* Midway, Clayton, and Barber are all near-by
towns* We used to go to all of them*
^ master was Tom Bford* Tlfhen he died, I fell to Polly Efbrd* Polly
Bford was the old lacjy* I don f t inow where they is and thqy don*t toow
nothing about where I is, Itts been so long* Beoause I done left Alabama
fifty years* I don*t know whether any of them is living or no* It f s been
so long*
M Their baby boy was named ffiles Bford* Hjr mother was Miami Bford and
ay father 1 s name was Ferry Bford* That is the name he went in* l$r mother
west in that name too* l$r father died the second year of the surrender* Ify*
mother was a widow a long time* I was a grown-up woman and had children
when my father died*
lt I married during slavsxy time* I don*t remember just how old I was
then* Ifir old man knows ay age, but I can*t remember it* But he f s been dead
this year makes thirteen years* I had one child before the surrender* I
was just married to the one man* I was married after the surrender* I don*t
want to be married again* I never seed a man I would give a thought to since
he died* Lord knows how long we*d been married before he died*
"VTe came here and stayed four years and we bought a home down on
Aroh Street Pike about ten miles from here* I lived there sixty years*