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Interviewer S. S. Taylor
Person interviewed Hannah Travis
3219 W. Sixteenth
Age 73 Little Rock, Ark.
ai" Occupation Housewife
"The Jay Hawkers would travel at night. When they came
to a cabin, they would go in and tell them that owned it they
wanted something to eat and to get it ready quick. They stopped
at one place and went in and ordered their dinner. They et the
supper and went away and got sick after they left. They got up
the next morning and examined the road and the horse tracks and
went on. They all thought something had been given to them, but
I don't guess there was. They caught my mother and brought her
here and sold her. If they caught a nigger, they would carry
him off and sell him. That's how my mother came to Arkansas.
"I don't know what year I was born in. I know the month
and the day. It was February tenth. I have kinder kept up with
my age. As near as I can figure, I am seventy-three years old.
I was 18 in 1884 when I married. I must have been born about 1864.
I was brought up under my step father; he was a very mean man.
When he took a notion to he'd whip me and mother both.
"My mother was born somewheres in Missouri, but whereabouts
I don't know. One of her masters was John Goodet. His wife was
named Eva Goodet. He was a very mean man and cruel, and his wife
was too. My grandmother belonged to another slaveholder and they
would allow her to go to see my mother. She was allowed to work