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FEDERAL ~RITERSt PROJECT
	~	American Guide,(Negro ~riters‘ Unit)
		     Jacksonvillé, Florida
Rachel A. AuBtin	Slave Interview
Field Worker	October 27, 1936
Complete	John A . ßimms
2,616 Worda	Editor
11 Pagea ..	.


Samuel Simeon AndZeWB


	~	ForS almost 30 years Edward Waters College, an African Methodist Episcopal Schàol, located on the nor1~. side ~ Kings Road. in the western section of JackeonviLke, has employed as watchman, Samu~1 Simeon Andrewe(affection-~ ately called “Parson“ ) ‚. a former slave of E J . Lane ~ o! Georgia, Lewis Ripley of Beaufort, South Carolina, Ed T1I1-~ man of Dallas, Texas, and John Troy of UniOn.Springs, Alabai~ra, . ~

	“Parson“ was born November 18, 1850 in Macon, Georgia, at a place called Tatum Square, ~where slaves were held, housed and sold. “Speculators“ (persons who traveled froi~ place to place with slaves for sale) ~ had houe ed 84 elavee there-. many of whom were pregnant women. Besides “Parson, u two other slave-children, Ed Jo.nee who now lives in Sparta, Georgia, and George Bailey were born in Tatum Square t~t night. The morning after their births, a woman was sent from the nearby A.J. Laxie‘plantation to take care of the three mothers; this