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him. He rais3d bis gun twice to shoot but he kept dodgin around the house an he didn‘ want to shoot when he might hit s~eone else. When he ran from the house

he shot him.

	“Yes sah, them Confederates done more things around here than the Yankees did. I remember once during the war they came to town. It ~s Sunday morning an IW~8 sittin in the gallery of the ole brick Methodist church. One of them came to de door and he ~ pointed hi s pi stol right at that s head. The gallery had an outside stairs then. I ran to de door to go down de stairs but there was another un there pointing hi s gun and they say don ‚ t. nobody leave dis building. The others they was a cleanin up all the hosses and wagons round

the church. The one who was guarding de stairs, he kept a lookin to see if dey was done cleaning up de hosses, and when he wasn‘t watching I slip half ~ay

down de stairs, an when be turn his back ~ jump down and run. When he looks he jus laugh.

	fl~y father he lived to be eighty nine • He died right here in this house and he‘s btjried over by the church. His name was Sam. They called my mother Willie Ann. She died ehen I was small. I had three brothers and one sister. My father married again and had seven or eight other children.

	ni ty0 had eleven children ; five livin, s ix . I‘ vo been preaching for forty years and I }mve seen many souls saved. I don‘t preach regular anymore but once in a while I do. I have preached in all these little churches around here. I preached six years at Sugar Loaf Mountain. The presidin elder he wants me to go there. The man that had left there jus tore that church up. I went up there one Sunday and I didn‘t see anything that I could do. I think I‘m not able for this. I said they needs a more experienced preacher than me.

But the presidiil elder keeps after me to go there and I says, ~ell, I go for one year. Next thing it ~as the s~e thing. I stays on another year and so on for six years • When I left there that church was in pretty good shape.

	UI think preaching the gospel is the greatest work in the world. But folks don‘t seem to take the interest in church that the~ used to.“