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 daddy was living with the fellow. He named it with that

 man, you know.

I: Your grand-&S was a sharecropper?

D: Yeah. He was a Joe Denson, so he called that little baby

 Joe Denson too.

I: I see.

D: That's where we start Denson.

I: I see. The family name, then, came from the white man

 who owned the farm, the property, where your grandfather

 was sharecropping?

D: That's right.

I: I see. So it's a borrowed name, really.

D: Yeah, yeah. 'Borrow, he give it...

I: Did your grandpa know English at all?

D: Yeah. I don't know why, but all Densons talk pretty good

 English. Can't read or write, things like that, but they

 can...

I: But he could talk it all right.

D: Yeah. Except me.

I: Your grandpa was named Joe Denson?

D: Yes, sir.

I: And he was named that after this white man called him

 that.

D: Yeah.

I: But he also had a Choctaw name.

D: Yeah.