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Oklahoma Writerst Project
	I joined the A. M. E. Methodist Church in 1874. 1 love this song better than all the rest:

	.‚ “Am I a Soldier of the CrossV‘

	Abraham Lincoln was a smart man, but he would have done more if he was not killed. I don‘t think his work was finished. I‘ll tell you the truth about Booker T. Washington. He argued our ~eople to stay out of town and. stay in the country. He was a Democrat. He was a smart man, but I think a man should live wherever hechoose regardless. I never stopped work whenever I‘d hear he was coming to town to sDeak, You know they wasntt fighting for freeing the slaves; they was fighting to keep Kansas from being a slave State; so when they had. the North whiDped, I mean the South had. tem whipped, they called. for the Negroes to go out and. fight for his freedom. Dont know nothing tbout Jeff Davis. I‘ve handled a lots of his money. It was counterfeited after the War.

	.	I‘ ye b een marri ed four t me s . I had one wi fe and three . I mean the three wasnt t no good, My first wife1 s name: Amanda Nelson. 2nd:

Po‘~‘ahuntas Jackson. 3rd:	Nannie Shum~ard. We livea together 9 years. She tried to beat me out of my home.