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	who owned a large plantation and torty slaves adjoining ~Lr. Cannon‘s plantation where mother and father stayed. I~r grandmother on my mother‘s side lived to be 114 years

	old, so they have tole me.

‘Il ran away from home at the age of twelve years and

	went to Charleston, South Carolina. I worked with a family there as waitin‘ boy for one year. 1 then went to Savannah, Ga. I had nc particular job and I hoboed every~ where I went. I would wait all day by the side of the railroad to catch a train at night. I rode freight trains and passenger trains. I rode the blind baggage on passenger trains and the rods on freight trains. The blind baggage is the car between the mail car and the engine. The doors are on the side and none at ~the end. I hoboed on to Miami over the Florida East Coast Railroad. I next went from Miam~i to Meniphis, Tenn. after staying there a few days and working wIth a contractor, I again visited Charleston, S. C. I had been there only two days when I met some Yankees~ from Minnesota. They prevailed on me to go home with them, promising if I would do so they would teach me a trade. I went with them. We all hoboed. We were halted at the Blue Ridge mountains but we got by without going to jail. We then went to ~ N. J. ~~cm N. L to Chicago ‚ Ill. ‚ then into Mi‘~Çwaukee,