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ST. LOUIS
. ~-SI4VE STORII~
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HA~ ~AND B]!ART~ AT 119



	Charles Gabriel Anderson, 119 years old, lives at 1106

Biddle Street in St. Louis alone. Hé~is 5. feet, 3 inches in height ‚ has mixed gray hair and weighs 145 pounds .

	He is s1i~ht1y bent, but does not have to wear glasses, and is able t• go anywhere in the city without assistance. ~He has a good memory, and cheerful attitude. Seated in the church of God in Christ, a store front church, next door to his home, where he attends because of the convenient location, he tells the writer the following
	story:	.	~

	“1 was born January 5, 1818 in Huntsville, Alabama de son of

Saille McCrea and George Bryant. My ow~iei‘s naine was Miss Margaret
	Tony. She sold me to Edmond Bryant while I was quite		young.	I
	soinet mies go by de name of Bryant . • .				. ~.

	“I was just big enough to carry water and help a bit with farming while Miss Tony had me, but I jedge I was ‘bout 14 years old when MTo Bryant got nie, ‘cause I was old enough to plow and help with de cotton and I donè a man‘s size work in his field. I was his slave ~r1~eu dewar broke out. I joinedde army in 1864. I used togit a

•p~rtsion of ~65. a morrth, now I only git~56 a month but last month I

&I~dU‘ t git no cheek atall . ~ I a‘ t know why . WI Sb 1 could ~ find out ~ : • ~