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Slave Interview	.	 Page 1].
Rachel A Austin		. y~j~
Jacksonville, Florida



Waters College football tea~i goes, there “Parson“ wants to go also, Vflienever the crowd at a gans hears the scream “Come on boye,“ everyone knows it is “Parson“ Andrews.

	~rParsonfl has had two wives, both of whom are dead~ and is the father of eight children: VJilli8 (deceased) Johnny, Sebron Reece of Martin, Tennessee, Anxiie Lee, of Macon, Georgia, Hattie of Jacksonville, Ella (depeased) Mary Lou Rivers 0±~ Macon, Georgia, and Augustu~s eomewhere—at~sea.

	~	“P~.rson“ does not believe in taking med±cine, but makes a liniment with which he rube himself. He attributes hi~ long life to hie sense of “having quitting sense“ and not allowing death to catch him unawares. He asserts that if he reaches the bedside of a kindred in time, he wil]. keep hirn from dying by telling him: “Come on r~w, don‘t be crazy and die.“

	.	He states that he enjoyed hie slavery life and since that time life has been very Sweet, He knows and. re‘~~ mcrnbers most of the incidents connected with EemberS of the several Conferences of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Florida and. can tell you in what minutes you may find any of the important happenings of the past:~ 30 ~ oi~ 40 years . .
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