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I ain't no sech cook as my mammy was. But mah boy, he were a fine cook. I ain't nothin' of a cook. Yas'em, I cook fo Mis Gallagher, an fo 4 o' de sheriffs here, up at de jail. But de fancy cookin' I ain't much on, no'em I ain't. But mah boy an mammy now, dey was fine! Mah boy cook at hotels and wealthy homes in Louieville 'til he died."
Wid de wild meat you wants plain boiled potatoes, yes'em Irish potatoes, sho enough, ah heard o' eatin skunk, and muskrat, but ah ain't cookin em. But ah tells you dat groun' hog is good eatin. "Ah were Baptized by a white minister in Louieville, an' ah been a Baptist fo' sixty yeahs now.
"When we comes back to Louieville on de boat, we sleeps in de straw on de flo' o' de boat. It gits colder 'n colder! Come big chunks ol ice down de river. De sky am dark, an hit col' an spit snow. Ah wish ah were back dere in Natchez dat time after de war were ovah! Yes'em, ah members dat much." "Ah wuk along wid mammy til ah were married, den ah gits on by mahsef.
"Yas'em we comes back to Louieville. Yes'em mah chillen goes to school, lak ah nevah did. Culled teachers in de culled school. Yes'em mah chillen went far as dey could take 'em." "Medicin? My ol' mammy were great fo herb doctorin' an I holds by dat too a good deal, yas'em. Now-a-days you gets a rusty nail in yo foot an has lockjaw.
New Oreleans is one third colored in population, you understand. Some places in the south the colored outnumber the whites 30 to 1. "I pastored St. Paul's church in Louieville, a church of close to 3,000 members. No'ma'm can't say just how old a church it is." "To live a consecrated life, you'd better leave off dancing, drinking smoking and the movies. I've never been to a movie in my life.
Nevah see such rejoicin on de Fourth 'o July since,-no'em, ah ain't." "Ah seen two presidents, Grant an Hayes. I voted fo Hayes wen I wuz twenty-two yeahs old. General Grant, he were runnin against Greeley when ah heard him speak at Louieville. He tol what all Lincoln had done fo de culled man. Yes'em, fine lookin man he were, an he wore a fine suit.
I was 90 years old the 25th of last month." Hall resides at 1225 High Ave., S.W., Canton, Ohio. Miriam Logan Lebanon, Ohio MRS. CELIA HENDERSON, aged 88. Born Hardin County, Kentucky in 1849 "Mah mammy were Julia Dittoe, an pappy, he were name Willis Dittoe. Dey live at Louieville till mammy were sold fo' her marster's debt.
She were a powerful good cook, mammy were an she were sol' fo to pay dat debt." "She tuk us four chillen 'long wid her, an pappy an th' others staid back in Louieville. Dey tuk us all on a boat de Big Ribber evah heah ob de big ribber? Mississippi its name but we calls it de big ribber." "Natchez on de hill dats whaah de tuk us to. Nactchez-on-de-hill dis side of N' Or'leans.
Ah cum heah to Lebanon about forty yeahs ago, because mah mammy were heah, an she wanted me to come. When ah wuz little, we live nine yeahs in Natchez on de hill. Den when de wah were ovah Mammy she want to go back to Louieville fo her folks wuz all theah. Ah live in Louieville til ah cum to Lebanon.
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