yard. He lived in a
two-story frame house on Dougherty Street, back of Scudder's School. The
two slave houses and the kitchen were set off from the house a little
piece out in the yard. It was the style then to have the kitchen built
separate from the dwelling house.

"Lord bless your life, Honey! We didn't live in log cabins, as you call
them. There were two slave houses. The one Aggie lived in was two-story,
the other one had just one story and they were both weatherboarded like
Marse John's own house. The grown folks slept on beds made with tall oak
posts. There were no metal springs then and the beds were corded
instead. The straw-stuffed mattress ticks were made with plain and
striped material, and pillows were filled with cotton. We children slept
on trundle beds, which were pushed up under the big beds in the daytime,
and pulled out for us to sleep on at night.

"No Ma'm, there was never any money given to me in slavery time.
Remember, Dear, when the yankees came through here, I was only ten years
old. Misses Fannie and Ann Crawford were Major Crawford's daughters, and
they kept house for Marse John. That morning in May I was wearing a
sleeveless apron, and they (Miss Fannie and Miss Ann) put a bag of gold
and silver, and some old greenback Confederate money in my apron and
told me to hold on to it. Miss Fannie and Miss Ann, both of them, patted
me on the head and said: 'Now, be a good little girl and don't move.' On
came the Blue Coats: they went all over the house searching everything
with their guns and swords shining and flashing. I was so scared the
sweat was running down my face in streams. Bless your life! When they
came to the bedroom where I was standing by a bed, holding that money
inside my apron, they didn't even glance at me the second time. Little
did they think that little slave girl had the money they were hunting
for. After the yankees were gone, I gave it all back to Miss Fannie, and
she didn't give me the first penny. If any of the money was given to my
mother she didn't tell me about it.

"I am going to tell you the truth about what we had to eat, so listen
now. It was egg bread, biscuits, peas, potatoes--they they were called
'taters then--artichoke pickles, tea cakes, pies, and good old healthy
lye hominy. There was plenty of meat served, but I was not allowed to
eat that, as I was never a very strong child. I was a fool about stale
bread, such as biscuit, cornbread, and light bread. Moth