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Intel viewer Miss Irene Robert;son
Person interviewed Milton MtOfria
R.FeDM Brihfcley^ Arkansas
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"I was torn in Marietta Hotel at Marietta, Georgia* The hotel belong to
xiit on btavens* He had two sons* One died fo I was born and Pink was in
the war* Mistress Thursday was old moster f s wife* We all had to refugee*
l.:y sister w&& down in the bottoms with all the slaves and cattle when she
disci* fJhe tcok sick and died suddenly* They he«rd the soldiers was coming
to tlar.ta aid knowed they would come by Marietta* Moster Stevens sold the
hotel jyst at the beginning of the war* He moved to the country* Mama
cooked -£.t the hotel and in the country both* The hotel was a brick house
en the railroad where they fed a lot of people e^ery day* Moster Milton
u?ed to teke m bout where he went, rode me on his foot when I was a baby*
-:xer thej weat to the farm every evening Mistress Thursday come get me,
tile ;ae tc the house* She got bread and butter, sugar, give it to me and I
slept oi\ e pallet in her room. I never did know why ahe done that. u»«»fl
;uiu a little house she slept in. She cooked* They never whooped me* They
i'ievor tfhocpei mama*
"One time the Federal army camped not a great ways from us* One time I
3 laying in a gully — big red ditch* I spied the federals coming. I
flaw ou-s tie ditch up the hill and across the field. They was calvary men
C:\oed b ck of our field. We all left that place; and refugeed to another
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