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	G, R. McLean	June 16, 1937	District
	District Supervisor		Sunmilt County
			240i‘Folklore
	Wilbur Ainmon, Editor
	George Comi, Writer
		 SARAH MMN


	Mrs .‚ Mann places her birth scmetime in 1861 during Uie first year of the Civil War ‚ on a plaůěbation owiied by Dick Beicher, about thirty miles SoUthWe8t of Riohmon, Virginia.

	Her father, Frederick Green, was owned ‘by Beloher and her mother, Mandy Booker, by Race Booker on au adjoining plantation. Her grandparents were slaves of Race Booker.

	After the s laves were freed she went with her parents to C lover Hi 11, a small hamlet, where she worked out as a servant until she married Beverly Mann. Rev. Mike Vason, a white minister, performed the ceremony with only he r parents and a few friends pres eut • At the o los e of the .c e remony ‚ the preacher asked if they would “live together as Isaac and Rebecca did.“ Upon rece lYing a satis faotor~ reply ‚ he pronounced them n~.n and wife .

	Mr • and Mrs • 1~t1ann were of a party of more than 100 ex-s laves who left Richmond in i88o for S i iver Creek where Mr. Mann worked in the coal mines. Two years later they moved to Wadsworth where their first child was born.

	In 1883 they came toAkron. Mr • Mann ‚ working as laborer ‚ was able to purchase two houses on Furnace Street, the olde8t, and now one of the poorer negro sections of the city. It is situated on a high bluff overlooking the Little Cuyahoga River.

	Today Mrs . Mann, her daughter ‚ a son-in-law and one grandchild occupy one of the houses. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. M~im, but only ~ ~rne is living. ~ Mann, a deacon in the church, died three years ago.