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Interviewer Bajmice Bowden.
Person Interviewed Shepherd Rhone
10th and Kentucky
Age 75 Pine Bluff, Ark.
"Yes ma'am, I was bred and born in 'sixty-three in Phillips
County, Arkansas, close to Helena, on old Judge Jones' plantation.
Judge Jones, he was a lawyer. Remember him? I ought to, he whip-
ed me enough. His wife's name was Caroline Jones. s he used to
smack my jaws and pull my ears but she was a pretty good woman.
The old judge was a raw one though. You had to step around or
he'd step around for you.
"I stayed right there till I was grown. My mother was named
Katie Rhone and my father was named Daniel Rhone. My mother was
horn in Richmond, Virginia and my father in Petersburg, Virginia.
"Judge Jones brought em here to Arkansas. My father was a
bodyguard for old Judge Jones' son Tom in the War. My father
stuck with him till peace declared - had to do it.
"They was thirteen of us chillun and they is all gone but
rne, and I'll soon be gone.
"I know when the Yankees come I run from em. When peace
declared, the Yankees come all through our house and took every-
thing they could get hold of to eat.
starved em.
"The only reason the Yankees whipped the South was they
"I know one time when peace declared I caughtafire and I
rim and jumped in a tub of water and I had sense enough not to