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	“My father was a pre ache r. He cotild wo rd. any hymn. ±io w cou. id he do ~ it, I don‘t know. On his Suzi~iay, when the circuit rider wasn‘t there, he would have me read the Bible to him and then he coudd get up and tell it to the people. I don‘t knOw how he managed it. He didn‘t know how to read. But he had a wotherfui. memory. Re always had his exhorting license renewed and. he exhorted the people both Methodists and Baptists. After freedom, when I went to school I knew and always helped. him.

	“My father vot ed. on the election days all the time. 1~e was a ±~epub1ican, and he rallied to them all the time. Before the war, my father farmed. He commenced in the early fall hauling the cotton frOm Abbeville, Stuth Carolina to Augusta, Georgia. ~hat was his business ~- teamster, hauling cotton. He never dia talk like his owners were so mean to him. (if c~rse, they weren‘t mean. When her master died and. the property had to be sold, his master bought her and her babies.

	“My father met my mother befo7 the war started.. Colored people were scarce lii the locality where she lived. These white people saw my father and liked. him. And they encouraged her to marry hirn. She was only seventeen. ;~r father was imich older. He remembered the dark ~ay in Ma~ï and when the stars fell.

	“He didn‘t show his age much thoagh till he came to Little Rock. ~e had. been used to farming arid city life didn‘t agree with hirn. He left about
seven years after coming here.	.	.	~

	“My father and. mot1~r met and. married in Missis8ippi. He came from South i~arolina arid she came from Alabama. /mey had nine children. All of them were torn after the war. /i am the oldest. l~ee McCoy is my youngest brother. You Ici_0w him, I‘m sure. He is the president of î~ust College. I was born right