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'l Visited by P&ther b^
••When Harrison and Cleveland ran for President, my father came to
Little Rock* Seme colored people had been killed in the campaign fights,
and he had been summoned to Little Rock to make some statements in connec-
tion with the trouble* He stopped at a prominent hotel and had me to come
to see him* When I went up to the hotel to meet him, there were a dozen or
more white men at that place * When I shook hands with him, he said,
'Gentlemen, he's a little shady but he's my son** His name was Captain
I. T. Robinson* He lived in Lisbon, Arkansas*
Mother
"My mother 1 s name was Frances Goodwin* She belonged to Captain
Robinson. I don f t know but I think that when they came to Arkansas, they
came from Georgia* They were refugees* When the War started, people that
owned niggers ran from state to state to try to hold their niggers*
House
"I lived right in the yard# We had four houses in the yard and three
of them was made of logs and one was made out of one-by-twelve planks. I
lived in the one made out of planks* It had one big room. I reckon it was
about twenty by fifteen, more than that, I reckon* It was a big room*
There two doors and no windows* We had old candlesticks for lights. We had
old homemade tables * All food was kept in the smokehouse and the pantry •
The food house and the smokehouse were two of the log cabins in the yard*
Schooling
"Goodwin oohoolod ma* He had a teacher to come right on the place and
stay there teaching* He raised me and brought me up just as though I was his
o«n child.
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