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Miss Anna Wood says she’s never been lonesome and she’s never been bored.
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David Batchelder
house. I didn’t work out in the yard, didn’t" work in the garden. I kept the kitchen clean. I kept all the rooms in the house clean.”
Miss Anna never married. “Ho, I’ve never been married. I’m single,” she said with a sly grin. “I could have married in my young days, if I’d wanted to marry, but I wasn’t caring so much about marrying. My Mother and Daddy took care of me right nicely. My Daddy wasn’t caring so much for me to marry either,” she said, and laughed.
“I had brothers and sisters, but they are dead. Some of them were older than I am, but the youngest baby child, I am next to him. He died, too.
“I had a sister who didn’t live around here in this country. She lived down in Washington city. But I heard here about a year ago that she took serious sick and died. She had married a man from Washington city. Her name was Kitty; she was older than I am.”
“I USED to go to church. I used to go way up here to the Poles Road church. Don’t go anymore. Hard on your legs walking back and forth. And I ain’t joined no church. I’m a sinner,” she grinned again. “I ain’t joined the church, so I don’t have to go no more than I wants to go. A lot of people who joined the church have to go to one, whether they wants to or not. No, I never did join the church.” Miss Anna Wood hasn’t always lived alone. “Not the whole outfit I didn’t. I used to help around for white people and live with them.
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