Week e ndin g Aug • E ‚ 1937 .	Mary L. Po oie,
S~26O	Identification No • 0149-4366
S—200	Federal Writers‘ Project,Dlst.2.
	.WPA Project 3609,. Mobile, Ala.

OEIARLi~ ~ÂR0NS ‚ EX-SlAVE ‚ SAYS I~

LOVED YOUNG MARSTER JDB~N.

(Compiled by Mary A. Poole.)

me ‚ end I juat had to watch over that boy, and be caine through ~1l right.“

	Uncle Charlie said. when they were told the Yankees were coining tI~rough from their headquarters In Meridian, Mississippi, and warned of their raids, they ail made to the SWamps and staid until they had passed on, but that the Yankeea did not disturb t1~ Jason Harris plantation.

	After the Surrender Charlie cane to Mobile and worked at the Yankee Camp, 1ivix~g in the quarters located in Hollyls Garden. Ee drove their wagons and was paid ~l4.0O a month and his keep. ~fter his discharge he worked on steamboats and followed different lines of work, bein€ employed for several years at Mr. M.L.Davis‘ saw mill, end is at present living on the Davis.p].ace at Oak Grove, ~.1a,, an old Southern hori~, with quarters originally built for the eraployees of the null and still known as the “quarters“, and like other ante-beilu, homes they have their private burying ground on the place.

	Uncle Charlie was married four times, but now a widow~. He had four children, two boys who are dead, and two girls, one Carrie Johnson, a widow, living in Kushla, Ala., and the other, Ella s~arons, a gr~s widow, living in Mobile ‚ ~1a.

	Uncle Charlie says he saw Jeff. Davis as &i old man, after the war at Mississippi City Miss. ‚ and then his face lit up, end he said; “Wait a minute, Madam I saw another president, ie4e