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MISS ANNA doesn’t know how old she is. “I couldn’t tell you. I can’t say exactly. But I reckon they put me up between a hundred years old. When our Mother and Daddy died, you see, they did not have our ages put down. And I was a way young girl child when they raised me up, so I could not know.
“I was born and raised up to little Washington, on a great big rich man’s place. His name was Mr. William Gern. He’s been dead now for a long time. He was a rich man. He was about like Mrs. King up here, about like that,” Miss Anna laughed. Mrs. King owned Ben Venue. ‘‘That’s the big house on the road up there, all pretty.”
‘‘They about raised me up. Mrs. Hernon King’s daddy raised my daddy, when he was a little boy,” she said. Miss Anna said she was about 14 years old, and living at the Kings’, when her father died. ‘‘Papa was, along before he died, getting towards a hundred years old. My Mama, she died before Papa.
“After my Mama and Daddy died, I used to work up here for Mrs. King. This big farm up here at Ben Venue. I helped in the kitchen. I helped all over the
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