Lia~7nflIy did before hindecades ago in the slave quarters of Colonel Rupertts plantation. .

	Despite his years, he is well able to take care of himself. He carries his nine decades lightly, and his kindly face is topped by a wealth‘of snow white hair. Though he lost money in the bank failure that made hin a Democrat in politics, Abe owns 14 acres of land, part of which he farms. He has cleared a portion of it for a baseball diamond which is rented to Negro teams, who play there frenuently. The fee is always collected before a ball is thrown.

	Several years ago he donated a part of the acreage to be used for a public road which opened up a portion of Douglas~Tille, the suburb in which he lives, where a number of ~Jegroes had developed a residential section. His people named him then and since “Mayor of Douglasville,“ without office or emolurnent, but Abe wears the title with a dignified content forhis remaining years.