Phoebe Mitchell Day Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Q, Oh, not the rioters?
A. I don't know, I don't know, There was taken . . . 1 don't know who
ad It, but T guess it was the soldjlem, because we was out in the boxcar.
Q, Oh, now Ihn getting it, (laughter) Okay. I1m just trying to get
the sequence of thbgs, here.
A, Yes, they was gone; there was very Uttle they left out of there,
Q, Now, how long-you spent one night in the boxcar?
A, Yes, until that mom. It was smetlme early that morning we come
on back home.
Q. The trunk that you . . .
A, It wasn't disturbed.
Q, . , . took and put in the cornfield-it wasn't disturbed?
A. No, no.
Q o
JW, all the other things in your house was?
A, In the house was. They taken our food. So I don't know whether
it wakit wai pone; there was just very little left there. M e
was hams and bacon and sausages and like of that. We had our own cow there.
They allawed that at that time to raise here, you know, in the cfty.
Q. All right, is there Whhg else, now, you remember of the riot?
A. Well, my sister, she worked by the week, too, and Mr. Llgghs, he