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	I married in~~ia)Co. ‚ state of Virginny, in de county seat. Dat was in 1883. I was married by a methodist preacher in Leesburg. I did not get drunk, but hed plenty to drink. ~e hed. singin‘ aM music. My sister was a

religious woman and would not allow danein‘.
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	:i have fourteen chillun. Four boys are livin and two girls. All are mar-

ned. George, my oldest boy graduated from grade school and de next boyl I have 24 grandehillun snd one great grandson. J~obn, my son is sickly and not able to work and~ my daughter, Mamie has nine chillun to 8upport. Her husband doesn‘t have steady work.

	The grandchillun are dom‘ pretty well.

	I think Abraham Lincoln was a fine man. It was put in his mind to free d.e colored people. Booker T. Washington was airight.

	Henry Logan, a colored man that lives near bridgeport, Ohio i~ a great man. He is a decon in de Mt. Zion Baptist church. He is a plasterer and liked by de colored and white people.

	I think it wuz a fine thing that slavery was finished. I don‘t have a tuiing more than my chullun and dey are all poor. (A grandchild nearby said, “We are as poor aschurch mice“.) My chillunare my best friends and dey love me.

	i: first joined church at Upperville, Virginny. L was buried under de water. I feel dat everybody 8hould have religion. Dey get on better in dis life, and not only in dis life but in de life to cum.

	My overseer wuz just a plain man. He wasn‘t hard. I worked for him since the 8urreuder and since I been a man... I was down home bout six yares ago and met de overseer‘s son and he took me and my wife around in his automobile.

	My wife died de ninth of last October (1936). I buried her in Week‘s cemetery, near&Br~idgeport, Ohio. ~e have a family burial lot there. Dat where I want to be buried~ 1f I die around here. .