SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

Seabe Tuttle -2~
*We found us a cabin to live in here* Didn't have to pay rent
t>»en likes they do now* We lived here but after a wvile my mother
died* They had two battles *round here, the Battle of Prairie
Grive and one was the Battle of Pea Ridge, after we coined back but
no soldiers bothered us* I remember that back from tfhere tv»e
Christian church is now, down to tve Town Branch, t^ere was a w^ole
lot of Federal soldiers stayir^, they called it then Cato Branch,
cause a man by t*»e name of Cato owned 411 that land**
"Tes 1 ^, I guess we had a purty good master and missus. le never
did get treated much rough**
*After the Ifer, Kiss ESraline brought back all tHe colored people
t>>at sva took wit** v>er, but my father. He got married down there and
didnH come back for a long time. Then he did and died fcere* Two of
Miss Eveline^s daughters married down t^ere* They didn f t have no boys
Hall, just four girls.*
*When Peace was made t^e slaves all scattered* We none was givin*
notvin f for as I know* I worked on a farm for $13* a montv and my board,
for a man down at Gxford # s Bend, t>»en I went down to Tan Buren where
I worked as a porter in a hotel then I went to Morrilton and I married*
We come back vere and I worked all t**e time as a carpenter* I worked
for Kister A*M» Byrnes. I helped build a lot of fine houses round ^ere
and I helped put a roof on t^e Main Building at the University**
*Yes*», I own my home down by t^e school, I canH make much money
these days* It kinda worries me* lly folks alldaad but tfcree of my
brothers children* One of these is blind* He lives on the old home
my mother had*
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