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the freighter Wilmington . He worked there three years, when he wus drowned. After his death I married David Augustus and ~rnmediate1y carne back to North Carolina and my white folks, and we have been here ever sinee.~ I am a member of several Negro Lodges and am on the Committee for the North Carolina Colored •3tate Fair.

	“There are only a few of the old white folks who have always been good to me living now~ but Ο wn still working with their offsprthg, among whom I have some mighty dear friends. I wus a~bout eight years old when Shermants AIW carne through. ~uess I am about ei~hty years of age now.1~ ~
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