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?liby Mosley
Sun 4,ncelo
(w,r-urrt Or PI 4.11 DAYS)
°I woe bora in Eurleson County 02 years ego," to too
1:1,p. axoh Chrieptmen Armstrong of on Ancelo, Texas.
Ao_not—epre obout pioneers end relating foots per-
toininc to the eorly doyse 1 am modern 'and llvoo modern
life and lilte it., I do not pit Ond -relate long °tortes
that ho7pened 11 Me poet; thet's,vhot mokoc people groW,
old. I try to .toy young and in keeping _with the times
end iorget-the peat.
".11 father, (norotio ChriectEon) yea 6tephen F. Aus-
tin's Purveyor. re purveyed 'kurleson County end rimy
14,
others betveen iutin, oucton cod Lon Antonio. That woo
before I vas barn, havever 1 remanter hearing htm relate
different obstaclec they mot vith.
"Fetter had several cloves but they never ran avay.
,e veep farmer, and ne'slaves ond ty to brother° lid
the Mat utalo father did the general menacing. Other
runaway slaves would clamp to our slave quarter° to harbor
during the &yet, sleep and get resod, and travel betvecn
suns.\.Ltuclly they tare caucht before they cot very for.
Hemmers, come escaped entirely.
"Py father in the civil Carl No, he vas too old,
but contributed hie part by vending two pansy 'One vas a
border guard end the other was in the army.
"1 did a little spinning end,vcaving durtagthe war,
for the.coldiers; everyone did vhetevor they °mad to help
the cause. I remember food vas hard to cot and hard to
,koop after we 7ot it.
"InOicne: 1 vac most too young to remmber anything
about them. 1 eau plenty tcAna ones. 3.;,nd &y mother wee
stoadin,7.ia the door with her babe in arms, when a young
chief tried to scare her co that she would take us children
and leave out so that he could steal e-,;erything we hod.
Men the old chief came by, mother told him what had hoppen...-A
cd and he ,surely did reprimand the young chief for the un-
bind cot. Lothor stood still and shoved him that she
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would not run from Indians end no further harm woo done.
rly father woo in nany Indian fights but I don't !mow any
particulars.
"I moved to Z.en Ancelo 55 years cco. It vac c very
moll town at that time, in foot the fort end necro soldi-
ers were of more attraction than Lon AnCelo. soon the
citizens boon to realize that the location woe most idea
for c city end thus boon trying to interest cmiczontd with
noney to lacate in this section. Lbst of the old pettier°
.cc:Le here tith•noney end node =re Loney, that's why they
hove ouch good footiac."
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nzrzr-Lnal- rrs. C,crah Chriestmen Armstrong, an Angelo,
Texas. Interviewed October 24, 1938.