"She had a loom half as big as this house. Lord a mercy, a many a time I went dancin' from that old spinnin'-wheel.
"They made all the clothes for the colored folks. They'd be sewin' for weeks and months.
"Miss Fannie and Miss Frances—that was her daughter—they wove such pretty cloth for the colored. You know, they went and made themselves dresses and the white and colored had the same kind of dresses.
"Yes Lord, they had some folks.
"Miss Frances wore hoops but Miss Fannie didn't.
"During of the War them Yankees come down the river; but to tell the truth, we run and hid and never seen 'em no more.
"They took Mars John's fine saddle horse named Silver Heels. Yes ma'am, took saddle and bridle and the horse on top of 'em. And he had a mare named Buchanan and they took her too. He had done moved out of the big house down into the woods. Called hisself hidin' I reckon. And he had his horses tied down by the river and the Yankees slipped up on him and took the horses.
"Yankees burned his house and gin house too and set fire to the cotton. Oh Lord, I don't like to talk about it. Them Yankees was rough.
"Right after freedom our white folks left this country and went to Missouri and the last account I heard of 'em they was all dead.
"After freedom, folks scattered out just like sheep.