John Smith

old miss carries me tg Galveston to my mammy* She tell her to take good Gar* of ae a&d we lived there three years and moved to Jefferson* Our things come by boat bat we come in wagons. I married John Smith purty soon after that hut he died ffore long. married Noah Watson and now hefs dead. Tb*n I I done raise six chillen hut only one am livinT now and that's my younges1 gal and I lives with her here, N I tells the young race iff en they comi up like me they wouldn't act so smart. They needs somebody to take the smartness outten them. But my gal am good to me. I gits a pension and pays it to her to take care of me. I been here a hundred years and more and I won!t stay much longer, and I don't want to be no ?spense to nobody M ******* & * " A 420026 E3USLAVE STGBIES (Texas) Page One EMMA WATSON, torn in 1852 or 1853, in Ellis Co#, Texas, was one of the slaves of the Carl Forrester family, Emma worked in the fields most of her life, but is now too old to work, and is cared for by her daughter. They live at 318 Allen St., Dallas, Texas. "I axed my old missus when Ifs horned and she rec'lect Pm eight or nine year old when de freedom war starts. She say she donft make recall de 'xact time, but I takes May for a birthin' time. a time when some sich was writ in de Bible, but it got burnt up Ifs ageable, They's f fore I knows where I'm homed, though, and it am on Oapt. Forrester's farm in Ellis County. like she am my mammy. His mother, Miss Susan, raises me I calls her Sis Sue. She was old miss and Miss Lee was young miss. 7n M My paw, I don't know nothin1 'bout. My sister Anna and me, us have de same paw, but my mammy1 s sold out of Miss'sippi !way from ay paw 'fore my birthin1. My m^w kept de name of Lucindy Lane, but Martha and Jennie, my other sisters, had diff1rent paws. M…