Year: 1876

call those words for the sake Of my life


They made me recall il and say it wal
not him.


They came there together, and sat uI
the first night-Whitehead and two oi
three other gentlemen-and they did
nothing but use profane language all the
time, and abuse the Northern people
They said that they would show them
that they were fully armed now and
ready for war at any time, and that they
could not rule over them or do as they
pleased with them.


They would not allow me to have a
coffin for him at all. Colonel Griffin. for.
merly United States Senator here-at
least so they told me-he came and said:
I Mrs. Haffa, / regret this very much.
Says he, 4 cannot get any coffin for you,
for they won't allow it,
Do you want to know anything about
the other men that were fascinated the
same day2'


She was told to go on with her sad sto-
I ry.


"Well, this was the 9th Of September,
/ 1875. After Mr.. Haffa was gone, the col
ored people who were there said: We
have lost our best friend. / would like
to see any one come to my house and
kill me in as brutal a manner as they
did the Squire. The names Of the peo-
pie who said this were Stevens. His
wife said i must go home He says
to her Yes, you had better 90 home, for
| will be the next one


Mr.. Whitehead said: Dole, you had
better be careful how you talk, or the
men will be after you


So about o'clock these men came
back to see il Mr.. Haffa was gone. and
they were looking like hungry wolves
the most fendish-looking men / ever
saw. They said:


Amy colored people secreted about
your premises hereY


Says /, No, sir


There was nobody in the house then
but my children and Mr.. Haffa's corpse.
| said: There is nobody here; but you
are privileged TO come in and examine
the premises and look up the chimney.


Two of them alighted and came in and
looked around, and they said that was
all that they wanted to know.


They went over to these colored peo-
Piles houses and took the Stevenses-
father and son-out and stood them on
a stump and shot them. and killed them
instantly. They did not give
them any warning any more than they
did Mr.. Haffa, when they came in the
house and took him out


They said they had large days work
on hand, and that they had to commence
early, and during that day they perpe-
trated a number of murders. They were
after Senator Caldwell, but don't know
whether they got him at that time OF
not


The Stevenses were Republican lead
ears, and so was Caldwell, who was bru-
tally murdered some time afterward.


Mr.. Whitehead then gave me ten days
notice 20 leave, and so the colored peo-
pie harbored me.


Mr. Haffa was buried in a rude box,
and yet the white people and my son
went along. He was just wrapped up in
a sheet-they would not allow IL in any
other way.


Mr. Whitehead said must leave, that
we were looked on as spies here. The
colored people harbored me until got a
conveyance to take me to the depot


They disarmed all the colored people
through the county there-took their
arms from them, and would not allow
them to have any; and before / left the
depot they made the colored people
break up their Republican clubs, and
every one of them joined the Democrat
ic clubs-they compelled them to do so
at peril of their lives.


| had no money; | was obliged to leave
everything / had not even a change of
clothing"


She said no more. J. II.