... told me this following things as I grew up. I asked her questions about my grandmother, as I never saw any of my grandparents. My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. They owned a lot of slaves. After the slaves were freed, my grandfather was out of work, so he ... of canned peaches, plums, berries and apples, which we had an abundance of. In the summer time, I would go to the woods and pick wild blackberries which she would can and make jelly from. Sometimes we would have blackberry cobblers. I also picked wild huckleberr...

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