"Never did nothin' but farm work. Worked on the shares till I got able to rent. Paid five or six dollars a acre. Made some money.
"I heered of the Ku Klux. Some of em come through the Clemmons place and put notice on the doors. Say VACATE. All the women folks got in one house. Then the boss man come down and say there wasn't nothin' to it. Boss man didn't want em there.
"I went to school a little. Kep' me in the field all the tims. Didn't get fur enuf to read and write.
"Yes'm, I voted. Voted the Republican ticket. That's what they give me to vote. I couldn't read so I'd tell em who I wanted to vote for and they'd put it down. Some of my friends was justice of the peace and constables.
"I been in Pine Bluff bout four years—till I got disabled to work.
"I been married five times. All dead but two. Don't know how many chillun we had—have to go back and study over it.
"Some of the younger generation is out of reason. Ain't strict on chillun now like the old folks was."