Iffen he cotched us we sho' gits a hidin'. We is slippin' 'long quiet like and a paddle roller jump out from behin' a bush and say, 'Let's see your pass.' We didn't have none but I has a piece of paper and I gives it to him and he walks to where it am more light, and then we run, right through old burdock bushes with briars stickin' us and everything. "I 'members once I slips away come dark from de plantation, with some others. She was sister to Marse John McNeel, what with his brothers owned all de land hereabouts. I's born in Fort Bend County, up near Richmond, and my old marster was Marse Dave Randon, and his wife, Miss Nancy, was my missus. "They named me San Jacinto 'cause I's born durin' de San Jacinto war, but they calls me Cinto. We come long way and we goin' to die together. She and me marry right after 'mancipation. That's Lucy over there, she my wife and I calls her Red Heifer, 'cause her papa's name was Juan and he was a Mexican. Although Uncle Cinto claims to be 111, he says he was named San Jacinto because he was born during the "San Jacinto War", which would make his age 101. Greenville McNeel, who owned the plantation before Marion Huntington. Miss Kate Huntington says the cabin occupied by the old couple is part of the old slave quarters built by J. He lived in a brick cabin with his wife, Aunt Lucy, on the Huntington Plantation, in Brazoria Co., Texas. Unclee Cinto Lewis, ex-slave, claims to be 111 years old.
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