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with a prayer. Mother told me and I have heard ~r te].1 othex~ hundreds of times, that one time a slave of old man Cockey was seen oomin~ from her home early in the morning. He had been there for treatn~ent of an ailment whioh Dr. Ensor had failed to cure. After being treated by my mother for a tinte, he got well. ~When this slave was searched, he had in his possession a sinai). bag in ‘which a stone of a peculiar shape and several roots were found. He said that mother had given it to him, and it had the power over all with whom it osiue in contaot.

	“There were about this time a nwnber of white people ~io had been going through Cookeysville, some trying to find out if there was any concerted move on the part of the slaves to run away, others oontlaoting the free people to find out

to what	extent they had ~ ~..t news of the action of the .r~ egroes • The Negro was
who h&c1~ ~een~ seen coming from mot~1er ‚ s hoene ran away. She wa8 iirnnediately accused

of Voodooism by the whites of Cookeysville, she was taken to Towson jail, there confined and grilled by the sheriff of Baltimore County the Cockeye, and several other men, all demanding that she tell where the escaped slave was. She knowing that the only way he could bave escaped was by the York Road, north or south, the florthern Central Railroad or by thô way of Deer Creek, a small creek east of Cockeysville. Both the York Road and the railroad were being watched, she logical‘y thought that the only place was Deer Creek, so she told the sheriff to searoh Deer Creek. By accident he was found about eight miles up Deer Creek in a swamp with several . other colored men who had run av~ay.

	“Mother was ordered to leave Baltimore County or to be sold into slavery. She went to York, Pennsylvania, where she stayed until l8~35, when she returned to her home in Gockoyeville; where a great i~.hy of her descendants live, now, on a bill that slopes west to Cookeysville Station, and is known as Foote‘s Hill by both white and colored people of Baltimore County today.