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~e was the only one kept th box. It waa a wooden box nailed up end a alit in the top. A. E. Eowe and Captain Howe was two sore Yankee white men there watching round all day. Ozan wa. the sheriff at Sardis, Mississippi soon attei‘ the war. Some more colored folke con. up to vote. We stood around and watched. We saw D. Sledge vot•; h oined half of the county. We knowed he voted Democrat no we voted the other ticket so it would be Republican. I voted for President Grant. I don‘t believe in women voting. They used to have the Australien Ballot System. It‘i a heap more the man that‘s elected then it 18 the party. We all voted for Hoover; he was a Rept~blican and foe he got one term Berved out we was about on starvation. I ain‘t voted since. That President claim to be a Democrat. He ain‘t no Democrat • I do‘ t know what he be.

I been farming and preaching. I started preaching in Mississippi.

I joined the coneerence in Arkansas in 1886 and started preaching at Surrounded Hill (Biecoe ) • I ccme here in 1884 from Pinola County, Mississippi. I had 80m5 stock and they was fencing up everything over there. I had no land so I come to en open country. It wasn‘t long before they fenced it in. I come to ~inkley and worked tor ~in end Black saiinill and I been here forty ox‘ titty years. I don‘t know Jens how long. I couldn‘t starve to death in a whole year hers. The pso~ pie wouldn‘t let me. I got lot of friends, both black and whites h•re.

	I married December 1?, 1874 in the Baptist church. Glance Wilson was the preacher married me. My wife died here in dis house nine years ago. We had ten children but jes two livin now. MY girl n.rried a preacher and live at Hope, Arkansas. My son preaches in Parson, Kansas.