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241.‘Smity Hodges, Ex-‘slave, Pike County
FEC
M~ra. W. F. Holmes
mayor of de town.~ey worked me hard. Me‘n .Take‘e had some hard

tz1~s an‘downs. Ihad to‘ chullun, none of dem livin‘ dat I know of.

/1 U~1ght have some grandchulluna but if I do, dey live up North.

;	“I‘m old an‘ can hardly git about. I‘se got a cancer. De ~ doctor done cut my let‘ brest clear offen me, but dat hurts me somtirries ~yjt.

*x niver jined any church ‘tIl ‘bout 20 year ago, right here


in Borglundtown. My church is flowery Mbunt Bapti8t Church, an‘ my Brudder Washin‘ton 18 ~7 pastor, an‘ he is~ de beet preacher what ever lived. ~o, M8.rse ~assedy didn‘t have no church fer de slaves. Dey went to de white folks‘ church.

. ~	“How do I live? Well I~ gits a pensiou of fo‘ dollars ein‘ I try to wash a leetle fer de colored folks, an‘ den I beg. stay here long but God WQfl‘t low me to starve. Bless God, he‘s

‚-~ fer me some day.»
a month, I can‘t comm4
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