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BOUGHT Mammy Pig when she was a little bitty suckling pig. I got her from old Mr. John Trapp up here. The other baby pig I got died. “Everybody would come here to my house to look at Mammy Pig. They had heard about me having a pig of _ thi& _ size. A whole lot of white people came in cars to see it. They were overwhelmed,” she said proudly and threw back her head and laughed. “They tried to buy Mammy Pig from me. Mr. Latham kept trying to buy Mammy Pig.
“A colored man, Boyd Brown, I got him to do her up.” Miss Anna Wood paid Brown in cash, instead of sharing part of the meat with him. “He couldn’t get none of Mammy Sow’s meat. Nobody could.”
“Boyd Brown killed a lot of hogs himself. Killed up at his place. He owns a right smart bit of land his own self. All the land he’s got is near to two farms. He raised stock, cattle and hogs and things, and sold them. That’s
ROBINSON VISIT
J. Kenneth Robinson, Congressman from Virginia’s Seventh District, will be at the Chester Gap Fire Department’s Carnival Friday, July 4 from 8 until 10 p.m.D
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