~‚ ~ .~ ~ .~‚ ~ ~ir‘~ ~ ~ • ~ ~ . -~ . ~ ~ ~.. ~.„ ~ ~ 73‘ IntervieWer~~ 3~uej. LTay).~oi~ Person ix~terviewêd Côra Weather& ‚ . ‚ . ~818 C1~iiteiStreeÇ ~ittiï~ I~1c,~ ~ Age ?9~~ — — I ~ ~ ~ ~ — ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ — — ~ ~ — ni have been right on this spot for aixty~three years. ~ I married when I wa~ sixteen arid he brought me here and put me down and. I have been here ever since . No ‚ I don‘ t mean he deserted me ; I mean he put me on thia spot of ground . Of course ‚ I have been away on a. visit but I ~ haven‘ t been uo-. whores else to live. ‚ “When I Carne here ‚ there was only three houses—~o~~ . . Winstead lived on Chester and Ei~hth Street; Dave I~via lived on Ninth and Rin~o; and George Gray lived on Chester and ~ighth. ~ Rena Lee lived ‚ next to where old man Paterson stays now, 906 Chester. Rena Thompson lived on Chester and Tenth. The old people that used to live here is mostly dead or moved up Lorth0 “on Seventh and Ringo there was a little store. It was the only store this side of Main Street, There was a little old house where Coffin‘s Dru~ E~tore is now. The branch ran across there • Old. xnan John Peyton had a nursery in a little log house. You couldn‘t see it for the trees. He kept a nursery for flowers. On the next corner, old man Sinclair lived~ That la the southeast corner of Ninth and Broadway. I~ext to him was the Hall of the SORs of Ham, ~That was the first place I went to school. Lottie Stephens, Robert Lacy, and Œt8 Richmond were the teacher, Rollins was the principal. That ~~as in the Sons of Ham‘s Hall. gQ~34~ ~ ‚ ~ ~