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Holly Grove, Arkansas
Age 70
"I was born in Anderson County, South Carolina. My papa was Abe Brown and my mama was Lizzie White. She
died when I was a baby and Miss Nancy White took me up to her house and raised me. Her husband was Mars
Hanry White. They was good to me. Miss Nancy was the best. They treated me like their own boy. It was done
freedom then but my papa stayed on the place. I learned to do up the night turns, slop the hogs and help bout the
milkin'. They had young calves to pull off. I toted in the wood and picked up chips. She done everything for me and
all the mother I knowed.
"When I was seven years old my papa pulled me off to Arkansas. We come on a immigration ticket, least I recken
we did. I don't think my papa paid our way. We was brought here. The land was better they told em.
"We settled in the woods close to Mariana and commenced farmin'. I been farmin' and workin' in the timber and I
carpenters a little. The timber is gone.
"I supports myself all I can. I own a little house at Clarendon I recken is the reason I don't get no Government help."
Interviewer Samuel S. Taylor"
