SARAH ANDERSON               0862-ARK/#102
     I DON'T KNOW WHEN I WAS BORN.  WHEN THE CIVIL WAR ENDED, I6W SB O T 4OR 5
YEARS OLD.
     I JES' REMEMBER WHEN THE PEOPLE COME BACK--THE SOLDIES-O>HnN ,HE6WjR
ENDED.  WE CHILLUN RUN UNDER THE HOUSE.  THAT WAS THE YANKEES.
     I WAS BORN IN BIBB COUNTY, GEORGIA.  THAT'S WHERE I WAS BRED AND BORN.
     I BEEN IN ARKANSAS EVER SINCE I WAS 14.  THAT WAS SHORTLY AFTER THE CIVIL W
AR, I RECKON.  WE COME HERE WHEN THEY WAS EMIGRATIN' TO ARKANSAS.  I'M TELLIN' Y
OU THE TRUTH, I BEEN HERE A LONG TIME.
     I MEMBER WHEN THE SOLDIERS WENT BY A5D WE CHILLUN RUN UNDnR THE  O bE. &IT
WAS THE YANKEE CAVALRY, AND THEY MADE SO MUCH NOISE.  DAT'S WHAT THE OLD FOLKS T
OLD US.  I MEMBER DAT WE RUN UNDER THE HOUSE AND CALLED OURSELF HIDIN'.
     MY MASTER WAS MADISON HEWSOME AND MY MISSIS WAS SARAH NEWSOME. -NAMED AFTnR
 HER?  MUST A DONE IT.  ME AND HER CHILLUN WAS OUT WALLOWIN' IN THE DrRT WHnN TH
E YANKEES COME BY.  SOMETIMES I STAYED IN THE HOUSE WITH MY WHITE FOLKS ALL NIGH
T.
     MY MOTHER AND FATHER SAY THEY WAS WELL TREATED.  THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY.
     OLD FOLKS DIDN'T LOW US CHILLUN ROUND WHEN THEY WAS Tj KrN'B O T3 HErRBUSI
NESS, NO MA'AM.
     WE STAYED WITH OLD MASTER A GOOD WHILE AFTER FREEDOM--TILL THEY& OMmn  EDE
MIGRATIN' FROM GEORGIA TO ARKANSAS.  YES MA'AM]
     I'M THE MOTHER OF 14 CHILLUN--TWO PAIRS OF TWINS.  I-MjRr  ED8 w  p-k   T1
5
 OR 16 I RECKON.  I MARRIED A YOUNG FELLOW.  I SAY WE WAS JUST CHAPS.  AFTnR HE
DIED, I MARRIED A OLD SETTLED MAN AND NOW HE'S DEAD.
     I BEEN LIVIN' A PRETTY GOOD LIFE.  SEEMS LIKE THE WHITE6o  KSJUST DIDN'T W
ANT ME TO GET AWAY FROM THEIR CHILLUN.
     ALL MY CHILLUN DEAD CEPT ONE SON.  HE WAS A TWIN.
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