Old People in Pulaski County

"Out in Pulaski County, going west out the Nineteenth Street Pike till

you strike the Saline County line, there are quite a few old colored

people. I guess you would find no leas than twenty-five or thirty out

that way. There is one old man named Junius Peterson out that way who

used to run a mill. If you find him, he is very old and has a good

memory. He is a mulatto. You could get out to him by going down till you

come to a place that is called the Henderson Lane. You turn to the right

and go off the pike less than a mile and you come to a big one-story

house settin' on a hill where Peterson lives. Right on beyond that about

three-fourths of a mile on the right side of the road, you come to

George Gregory's. The mother of my church is about eighty-one years old

but she is over in Saline County. Her name is Jane Joyner.

"There are quite a few old persons around Woodson that can give you

information. But that is in Saline County, I think. Sweet Home,

Wrightsville, Toltec--all of them have a few old colored persons on the

farm that was here in slavery times."

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