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Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed J* Roberts* Brinkley» Arkansas
Age 45 or 50 Occupation Methodist preacher
"My father was a Federal soldier in the Civil War* He
was from Winston, Virginia* He went to war and soon after
the and he came to Holly Grove* He was in Company f K f * He
signed up six or seven papers for men in his company he knew
and they all got their pensions* Oh yes! He knew them* Be
was an awful ezaet honest man* He was a very young man when
he went into the war and never married till he come to
Arkansas* He married a slave woman* She was a field woman*
They farmed* Father sat by the hour and told how he endured
the war* He never expected to come out alive after a few
months in the war*
*John Roberts Collins was his owner in slavery* I
never heard why he cut off the Collins* I call my own self
J. Roberts*
"The present times are hard times* Sin hath caused it
all* Machinery has taken so much of the work*
*The present generation are fair folks but wild* Yes,
the young folks today are wilder than my set was* I can't
tell you how but I see it every way I go* 1 *
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