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Rob~naoii said he would keep it. Reuben whI-be went to his brother‘ s and died. . The~r brought Ithi baok here and kepb his body in the Firsb Bap11a~ Church a whole v~reek. J. P. oari‘ied on the mein1 and themt sisters ~as fightin‘ ~ Th~j went on terrible. He starbed oui~ of bhe ~huroh and me and ‘~ther woman stopped lthn. Ab 1as~b the~r voted twice, and finally the~r elected J. P. JI~ was a good pasior, btrb he hurrahed the people and they dic3xtt~b like that.

	“Reuben YVhite didii‘t oc~ne baok when they buried him the second time. They were letting the eoffin down in the grave when they buried him the first time, and he knocked at it on the inside, knock, ]~iook. (Here the old lady rapped on the doorsill with her knuokleß—.sed.) They dreg that coffin up and opened it. How do I 1~iow? I was there. I heard it and aeon it, They took him out of the coffin and carried him back to his hcme in the ambulance. He lived about three or four years after that,

“I had a m~nber to die in n~r order and they seirb fox‘ the undertmker and

he found that she waan‘t dead, They took her dowu to the undertaker‘ s shop, and found that she wasntt dead, They said she died after they embalmed her. That lodge work ran n~r nerves down. I ~as in the Taberxiaole then, Gooth‘ioh and Dubisson was the undertakers that had the body. Lucy Tucker was the woman, ~: guess she died when they got her to the shop. They say the under.‘ taker out on her before he found that she was dead,

HI don‘t know how many grades I finished in school. I guess it was about three altogether. I had to git up and go to work then.

ttAf4~er I quit school, I nursed mighty nigh ai]. the time. I cooked for

c~ovornor Rector pare of the time. I cooked for Dr. Linoolr9~~odrtiff. I cooked for a whole lot of white folks, I washed and ironed for thoen An•bhoi;ra dovrxi hero, She like to had a fit over me the last time she saw me.