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FRANK ~EAGWOOD

	It1 was born in Fairfield County, South Carolina, neai‘ the town of Ridgeway. Ridgeway was on the Southern Rail.. road from Charlotte, N. C. to Columbia, South Carolina. I was born Oct. 10, 1864. I belonged to Nora Rines whose wife was named Emma. He had four ~girls Franc es ‚ Ann, Cynthia, and E~nma and one son named George. There was about one thousand acres of land inside the fences with about two hundred acres cleared. There were about seventy slaves on the place. My mother and father told me these things. Father belonged to a man by the naine of John Gosey and mother belonged to oie man lUnes. My father was named Lisbon Magwood and my mother was named Margaret Magwood. They were sold and resold on the slave auction block at Charleston, South Carolina, but the families to whom they belonged did not change the ir names until ‘ s name was changed when she married father in 1862.

	‘~There were twolve hildren in the family, three boys and nine girls. Only two boys of this family are living, Walter and myself.

	“Mother and father said at the beginning of the war that the white folks said it would not last long and that in the first years of the war they said one southern soldier