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1100 Palm Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age 80
"Yes ma'em, I was eight years old when the Old War ceasted.
"Honey, I've lived here twenty years and I don't know what this street is.
"I was born in Greenville, Mississippi. They took my parents and carried 'em to Texas to keep 'em from the
Yankees. I think they stayed three years 'cause I didn't know 'em when they come back.
"I 'member the Yankees come and took us chillun and the old folks to Vicksburg. I 'member the old man that reed
after the chillun while their parents was gone, he said I was eight when freedom come. We didn't know nothin' 'bout
our ages---didn't have 'nough sense.
"My parents come back after surrender and stayed on my owner's place---John Scott's place. We had three
masters---three brothers.
"I been in Arkansas twenty years---right here. I bought this home.
"I married my husband in Mississippi. We farmed.
"The Lord uses me as a prophet and after my husband died, the Lord sent me to Arkansas to tell the people. He
called me out of the church. I been out of the church now thirty-three years. Seems like all they think about in the
churches now is money, so the Lord called me out."
Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson"
