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Helena (home - Poplar Grove), Arkansas
Age ?
"I don't know how old I is. I am old, I been here so long. I feel my age now right smart. I want to do things and give
out. I know I'm old. I look old. I was born in Alabama.
"Mother was sold to Bud Walls at Holly Grove. Papa bought her and brought us to this state. My father died seven
months before I was born my mother told me. She married ag'in. She was the mother of ten children. We all lived
and do better than we do now. Mother was light. She worked in the field ever since I come to know 'bout things.
Her name was Martha Foster. I don't know my father's name but Foster. The rest of the family was called Walls.
Whether they wanted to be called that, they was called Walls' niggers 'fore and after freedom both.
"My husband is living. My daughter died first day of March. It sorter addled me."
Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson"
