n to build the
new one. Then I went up to the Quapaw to work. Worked there for quite
some time.

"Finally they sent for me to come on down and work for the government.
I's worked under a lot of the Superintendents. I started working for
the government when Dr.----Dr.----Dr. Warring----Warring was his name.
He was a nice man. Then there was Dr. Bolton. I worked for him too.
Then there was----there was----oh, what was his
name----De--De--DeValin--that's it. Then there was Dr. Collins. He was
the last of the Doctors. Then there was Mr. Allen and now Mr. Libbey.

"Yes, 'um, I worked for a lot of 'em and made a HOME RUN with all of
'em. Every one of 'em liked me. I always did good work. All of 'em
liked the way I worked.

"Yes 'um. I been married 41 years----20 years to the first woman----21
to this one. The first one come from Mississippi. Her name was Ula.
This one's name is Charlotte. She come from Magnolia--that's in
Arkansas.

"You know ma'am, I come from Kentucky where they raise fine race
horses. I worked around 'em a lot. But I ain't seen many races. We
lived out in the country. We had good horses, but they didn't race
'em. I worked with the horses around the place, but we didn't go in
town to see the races. What did we raise? Well tobacco and wheat and
the usual things. All my folks, but me is still working on farms.

"No 'um, I didn't rightly know how old I was. I was working along, not
thinking much about what I was doing. Then the men down at the office"
(Hot Springs National Park) "started asking me how old I was. I
couldn't tell 'em. But I thought I was born the year the slaves was
freed. They said I ought to be retired.

"So they wrote back----or somebody stopped over while he was on his
vacation--can't quite remember which. Anyhow they found I was old
enough to retire----ought to have retired several years ago. So now I
got my home, got my pension and got my time to do what I wants to
do."

Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed: Annie Love
1116 E. Twelfth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age: 85?

"I don't know exactly how old I am. I was here when the war was goin'
on. I know I used to see the soldiers come by and come in, but I
wasn't big enough to work. I was born in Richmond, Virginia.

"My owners moved from Virginia to Mississippi. My mother and I lived
on one place and my father lived on another plantation. I remember one
Sunday he come to see me and w