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8th Street, West Memphis, Arkansas
Age 61
"I was born in Wilkerson County, Mississippi. My ma never was sold. She said she was eleven years old when
peace was declared. Master Sims was grandma's owner. Grandpa was never sold. He was born in Mississippi. He
was a mulatto man. He was a man worked about the house and grandma was a field woman. She said she never was
whooped but worked mighty hard. They was good to grandma. She lived in the quarters. My parents b'long to the
same owner. But far as I ever knowed they married long after freedom. They was raised close to Woodville,
Mississippi."
Interviewer Mary D. Hudgins"
