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NAME IF INTERYIEW1R Psrnolla Anderson
Subject Centennial Snow «» Spring in St* Louis addition
Ah wuz born aftuh surrender* Ah guess ah f a about 74- years ele*
Mah pa wuz er slave an mah ma wuz tee* Dey moster wu2 name Green
Tray lor an dey lived right down dar at Tula Creek* Mah mistess wuz
named Martha Tray lor an dey name me aftuh huh- Hah name is Martha
Lee Trayler* Aftuh she mahried huh name wuz Martha Tatum« We
worked down dar* Oht liah Lawdt How we did work - all ovah dat bot- ^W
torn* Be puttiest fiel f ah evah did see* Do Trayler f e owned hi-^aen.
Later on de Tatums bought hit fum dem and years aftuh dat de Nash*8
bought hit fum de Tatums* But new all uv dat place is gO^Hfe up'*
Nothing but er pine thicket and er black berry thicket* Ye caint hardly
walk trhough de place* Latar on de Gebb f s owned us* George Cebb wuz his
name* He lived down in de Caledonia settlement* Ah went behin* him
er many er day wid de hoe or he f d crack mah haid* Re use tuh be de \
sheriff here de years uv dm boom an his nephew is de sheriff now*
Grady Woeley* Later on while ah wuz a gull ah worked fuh de Swilleys
an wuz partly raised on dey plantation* De ole man wuz name Laws on
Swilley* His wife* Margaret Swilley, and I clare dem two people treated
me white* She mammied me er many er day* Ah wuz bred and born right
down dar er-round Calddonia* Ah wuz a big gull durin de time uv de
centennial snow* Bis snow wuz called dat cause hit wuz de bigges
snow dat evah been* Hit wuz ovah yo haid* We had tuh spade our way
evah whah we went* Tuh de wood gitting place, tuh de aping, tuh de
hoss lot| and evah whah* De snow wuz warm an soft* We piled up so much
snow till hit took hit er half er year tuh melt*