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Genilnen~, dis ~oy is 85 fin~kki split sIlk~1.J Then, wti•n ~‚. George A]lsn had bought all ths Allen eleveu, It dawned upon them, Rfld they apprseiited, why he had mutated on t~heir belug 801d In ~~1abama, r‘ather than in ~1outh Ciirolinn.

J3etore be w~e six yvars of age, little “Wash“ lost his mother and, frorti then until fre•dom, he mie peraon~lly eared for r~n~ looked after by L~. George Allen; nz~ the old man wept every tinte he !fle~flj~ed her n~ime.



During the ‘6O~s, ‘uncle ~~aith ‘s“ father drove a ru~Ll and passenger 8tage between Cu!~ieeta ~nd La)?ayette, Alabena ~ ~tnd, tinall7 dIsd t~nd was buried nt L~J?ayette by the i~ide of t~ii wife. “Uncle Wash“ “drifted over“ to Columbus abotit fifty yeara ago and le now living with his two sui‘viving o~ildren.

lie ~ been married four time8, iill his wives dying “naohul“ deaths. lYe haa also “buried four oI~Illwi“.

~	w1~a t~u,~ht to read ~xid write by the ions anti dau~htera of Mr. George Allen, nn~ t~ttended church where a one—eyed white preaohsr nr~r~ed ~fr. Terrentlne ~— preaehed to the 8lavea each ~3unde~y ‘~evenin‘“ (afternoon). The an]~iry of‘ tUa pre~ot~er was paid b~y T1x‘. Ceoz‘ße Allen.

hen asked whRt t}ia pre8cher~Suaually preached about, “Uncle ~i98h“ r~nawered: “1~• w~u~ a one—eyed r~n an‘ ecw.ldn‘ s.. good: so,