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Frank M. Smith	Mahoning County - Dist. #5
	Youngstown, Ohio


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	Mrs. Angeline Lester lives at 836 ~ieit Federal 3t~eet, on U.S. Route j422, in a very dilapidated one story structure, which once was a retail store room with an addition built on the rear at a different floor level.

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Angeline lives alone w4.4~ her‘several cats and chickens w~h~tc~-4-4ve in the
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house with her. She was born on the p1antation~of Mr. Wornble, near Lumpkin,

Stewart County, Georgia ~bout 1847, the exact date not known to her, where she liv ed unt il she was about four ye ars o id ~ Then he r f at he r was so id t o a Dr. Sales, near Brooksville, Georgia, and her mother and a sister two years younger were sold to John Grirnrs, who in turn gave them to his newly tarried daughter, the bride of Henry sagen, and was taken to their plantation, near Benevolence, Randolph County, Georgia.

	~Vhen the Civil ~Yar broke out, Angeline, her mother and sister were turned over to Robert Smith, who substituted for Henry Fagen, in the Confederate Army.

	Angelirie remembers the soldiers coming to the plantation, but any news about the war was kept from them. After the war a celebration was held in Benevolence, Georgia, and Angeline says it was here she first tasted a roaSted piece of meat.

	The following Sunday, the negroes were called to their master‘s house where they were told they were free, and those who wished, could go, and the others could stay and he would pay them a fair wage, but if they left they could take nnly the clothing on their back. Angeline said “We couldn‘t tote away much clothes,