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a Co~8t1~t~ition reporter who called. upon her
recently.	.

Aunt Edle was born in 1791, jus~ eight years betore the death of George Washington oceurre&. She was a mother when the war o~ 1812 took place. The establishment of Colwnbus as a city was an event of her mature womanhood. The Indian War of the thirties she recalls very distinctly. She was setting old. when the Mexican War took place. She was an old woman when the great conflict between the states raged, She was seventy—five years o:t age when she became free.

It is quite needless to say that Aunt !die was a slave all her li~~ u.p to the yearl866. She was born in • Eancook County, Georgi a between M.tlled~geville and Sparta. She was the property of Thomas Sohiatter. She came to Coluinbu.s j~xst atter the town had been laId off, when she was a comparatively young woman. She becanie the property o:t the ~ainily o1~ J~id~ge Hines Holt, the distinguished. Coluznbu.a lawyer. She says that when she first came here there was only a small collection of houses. Where hex‘ present home was located was then nothing bat swamp land. The present location ot the court house was covered with a dense woods. No event in those early years impressed itself more vividly upon Aunt 8 mind than the Indian War, in the thirties. She was at the home of one of the Indians when she first heard of the uprising against the whites, and she frankly says that she was frightened almost to death when she listened. to the oold..blooded plots to extermi~te the white people. Not much attention was paid to her on account of her being a negro. Those were very thrilling times and Aunt Edle confesses that she was exceedingly glad. when the troubles with the red rien were over. Another happening of the thirties which Aunt Edie recalls quite distinctly is the falling of the stare. She says quaintly that there was more religion that year in Georgia than there ever was before or has been since. The wonderful manner in which the stars shot across the heavens by the thousands, when every sign seemed to point‘to the destruction of the earth, left a lasting impree8ion upon her brain.

Aunt Edle says that she was kindly treated by her masters. She says that they took interest in the spiritual welfare of their slaves and that they were called in for prayer meeting regularly. Aunt Edie was such an~ old woman tien she was freed. that the new condition meant very little change in life for her, as she had about stopped