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Combined Matches: Control Number: NRFF-75-53A-11604
Unit of Description: Item Record
Group Number: 75
Series ID: 53A
Item ID: 11604
Title: Enrollment for Ran Lovely
General Materials Designator Record Type: Textual Records
Reference Unit: National Archives--Southwest Region Agency Name: National Archives
and Records Administration
Facility Name: Building 1, Dock 1 Address: 501 West Felix Street
City: Fort Worth State: TX Zip Code: 76115
Telephone Number: 817-334-5525 Fax Number: 817-334-5621
Organizational Code: NRFF Creating Organization: Commissioner to the Five
Civilized Tribes, Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Scope and Content: Tribe: Cherokee
Type: Parent
Census Card Number: FR134
Personal Name Reference: Ran Lovely
Item Count/Item
Type: item(s) |c 1 Source Project: Kiosk

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Database: Full Context of Slave Narratives
Combined Matches:
State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chaney, Richardson
Pretty soon I married Ran Lovely and we lived in a double log house here at Fort Gibson.
They my second husband was Henry Richardson, but he's been dead for years, too.
We had six children, but they all deed but one.

State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chaney, Richardson
I didn't went slavery to be over with, mostly because we had the War I reckon.
All that trouble made me the loss of my mammy and pappy, and I was always treated
good when I was a slave. When it was over I had rather be at home like I was. None of the
Cherokees ever whipped us, and my mistress give me some mighty fine rules to live by to
git along in this world, too.

State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chaney, Richardson
The Cherokee didn't have no jail for Negroes and no jail for themselves either.
If a man done a crime he come back to take his punishment without being locked up.

State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chaney, Richardson
None of the Negroes ran away when I was a child that I know of. We all had
plenty to eat. The Negroes didn't have no school and so I can't read and write, but they
did have a school after the War, I hear. But we had a church mede out of a brush
arbor and we would sing good songs in Cherokee sometimes.

State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chaney, Richardson
I always got Sunday off to play, and at night I could go git a piece of sugar or something to
eat before I went to bed and Mistress didn't care.

State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chaney, Richardson
We played bread-and-butter and the boys played hide the switch. The one found
the switch got to whip the one he wanted to.

State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chaney, Richardson
When I got sick they give me some kind of tea from weeds, and if I et too
many roasting ears and swole up they biled gourds and give me the liquor off'n them
to make me throw up.

State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chaney, Richardson
I've been a good church-goer all my life until I git too feeble, and I still under
and talk Cherokee language and love to hear songs and parts of the Bible in it
because it make me think about the time I was a little girl before my mammy
and pappy leave me.

State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chaney, Richardson
(Oklahoma Writers Project, Ex-Slaves)

State: Oklahoma Interviewee: Chessier, Betty Foreman
Chessier, Betty Foreman