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FL-7
February 7, 1939
Bob and Anne Franklin (white)
Hicoria, Florida
Country store proprietor
and farmer.
Barbara Berry Darsey, writer
Veronica E. Huss, reviser
good needs cutting

ALBERT AND ANNE DENMAN

"Anne, my wife," said Albert Denman, "she has gone to town this mornin
with another lady. They ain't come back yet. I'm sorry she ain't here,
and I hope she come back before you gets gone; she'll be plum glad to see
you."

We were sitting on the front porch of Mr. Denman's home near Hicoria,
Florida, when he made this statement. He was out of breath from hoeing in
his garden and sat panting. While he panted, he wiped his brow with a
dingy bandanna.

"She don't get to go to town much fer we ain't got no car, nothin
'ceptin my old truck, but I always lots her have it whenever I gits the
chancet. It's a right nice change for her too, and gives her a chancet
to get away from things. She works so hard."

Upon my arrival I had found Mr. Denman in his little vegetable garden
between the front of his house and the back end of his grocery store which
faces the main highway. I had told him what I wanted, so he laid his hoe
aside and insisted on coming to the porch, adding that he needed a rest any-
way.

He was a tall, thin man, with light hair and clear blue eyes. He
assumed a serious attitude toward the interview, but talked freely of him-
self and his family. His manner was pleasant and friendly.

"Talkin about Anne though, makes me think of how she's been sufferin
lately. She has a lot of pain in her side. I think she works too hard,
tryin to keep us all clean and fed right.

"Sometimes she washes as much as twicet a week, especially when the
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