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Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson
Person Interviewed: Charlie Williams
Brassfield; Ark.
Age: 73
"I was born four miles from Holly Springs, Mississippi. My parents was
named Patsy and Tom Williams. They had twenty children. Nat Williams and
Miss Carrie Williams owned them both. They had four children.
"At freedom he was nice as could be--wanted em to stay on with him and
they did. He didn't whip em. They liked that in him. His wife was dead
and he come out to Arkansas with us. He died at Lonoke--Mr. Tom Williams
at Lonoke.
"I farmed nearly all my life. I worked on a steamboat on White River
five or six years--_The Ralph_.
"I never saw a Ku Klux. Mr. Williams kept us well protected.
"My mother's mother couldn't talk plain. My mother talked tolerably
plain. She was a 'Molly Glaspy' woman. My father had a loud heavy voice;
you could hear him a long ways off.
"I have no home. I am a widower. I have no land. I get a small check and
commodities.
"I vote. I haven't voted in a long time. I'm not educated to know how
that would serve us best."
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor
Person interviewed: Columbus Williams
Temporary: 2422 Howard Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
Permanent: Box 12, Route 2, Ouachita County, Stevens, Arkansas
Age: 98
"I was born in Union County, Arkansas, in 1841, in Mount Holly.
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