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~‘rhich ivirs. ICing paid as long as the child remained. with herr At eighteen :re~rS of age the girl had~ ac‘quired. sufficient education to qualify to teach in the publIc schools for Negroes. • After three years of teaching ~1ie married Jim Casey; an ex~slave, who took her to his “three~plow° farm in south Georgia.

	“No man ever lived who was finer than ~ said the old woman.

°:ïy daughter used. to say that I loved. him ffii~rethan God, and that GOd. was jealous and. took him away from rne.~

	After her only daught er ‚ s death itt 1919 ‚ ~ Esther was brought to Birmingham by her grandson who has kept her cOmfortably ever since . Her hair is just turrThng gray, though she was born in 1856. The little briar pipe, which she endeavors to conceai:from strangers, is the only outward evidence that she has anything in common with other5of her gene~

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