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	~	Rev. L B. Allen, ~c-~$1ave
	~v,	425 ~- Second Ave. •
~s#	Colwińus, Georgia.
	(June 29, 1937)





In ~ second interview, the submission of which was voltintarily soa~ht ~y hi!~nself, this very interesting specimen of a r~pid1y vanishin~ type expressed a desire to amend his previous inter~ view (of May 10, 1937) to incor~porate the fo1loviin~ facts:

?tFor a nwnler of years before frečdom, my father ~Goa~h~~ his time from his master and traveled a‘~out over Russell County (iia~arna) as a journey‘man blacksmith, doin~ work for various planters and. makin~, good money— ~ as ~oney went in those ~days — ~ on the side. At the close of the war, however, thoa~h he haci a trunk full of Confederate money, all of his ~ood money was tone.

Father could neither read nor write, ~ut had a good head for fi~ures and was very pious. His life had a wonderful influence upon me, thou~h I was ori~inal1y worldly ‚- that is, Idrank ~nd cussed, ~ut haven‘t touched a drop of s~irits in fort~r ye~r~s aiid çuit cussin~ ~efore I entered the ministry in 1879.

I leariied t~ pi~ay \:hen very yuun~~ and kept it up even in my uns~v~d days. Ky v~hite master‘s folks knew me to ~~ee a prayin~. ~rooy, ~mnd ~ sked me ~‚- in 1865 ~ when the South was ajout vń:ipped and Gene:‘al wilson was headed our way ‚- - to pď~ay to God to hold the Yankees. ‚ack. Of ocurse, I didn‘t have a:~ love for any Yankees -‚- and

h8ven‘t flow, for that matter ~— ~ut I told my white