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	“The first school I attended was after the war closedG The school was located in Chapel Hill, North C~arolina, and wa~ taught by a Yankee white womaii from Philadelphia. We remained in Chapel Hill only a fr~w years after the war ended when we all moved to Raleigh, and I have made it my home ever since. I got the major part of my ed.ucation in Raleigh under Dr. h.M. Tuppe~who taught in the second Baptist Church, located on Blount Street. Miss M~y Lathrop, a colored teacher from Philadelphia, was an assistant teacher in iJr. Tupper‘s ~3chool. I went from there to ~haw Collegiate Institute, which is now Shaw University.

...	UI married aaron Stallings of ‘~arrenton, North Carolina

while at c~haw. He diedand I married Rev. I~iatthews ~gady of Monrovia, west coast of Africa, Liberia, Pastor of First Chtkrch. I helped him in his work here, kept studying the

works of different author‘s, and lecturing and reciting.
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Lily husband, the Rev. I~tthews Anngady, and I gave a lot of
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my time to the cause of Charity, and while on a lecture tour of I~iassachusetts in the interest of this feature of colored welfare for Richmond, Va., the most colorful incident of my eventful life happened when I met Qu~iigo Hennadonah

~/P	Perceriah, an Abyssinian Prince, who was traveling and lecturing on the customs of his country and the habits of its people. Our mutual interests caused our friendship to ripen fast and when the time of parting came, when each