Ex~S1ave:	Emanuel Eirnore
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	“The man who got killed was named Alex Go1ié~ht1y. He taught the boys ray a~e how to swim, fish and hunt. his death was the worst thins that had h~ppeaed in the community. The man who worked at the foundry, made Alex a coffin . It had to be made long and thin because he was nia~hed up so bad. In those days-cofîins were nothing but boxes anyway, but Alex‘s coffin was the most terrible thir~g that I have ever seen. I reckon ii th~ had. had pretty coffins then like they do now, folks would have bought them to sleep in.

	“Hundreds went to Alex‘s funeral, white and black, to see that lon~ narrow coffin and the grave which was dug to fit ~it. On the way to the graveyard, negroes sang songs, for Alex was a good man. They carried hi:~ to the Cherokee graveyard on the old Smith Ford~ Road, an~ there they buried ~ini. ivLy father helped to build the coffin at1d he helped haul him to the graveyard. Pa worked at the Iron Foundry until he was very old. He worked there before I was ever born.

	“My Lather was sold Lour ti~es during slavery. When he was brought to Virginia he was put on the block and aůctioned o~E~ for $4,000. He said that the last time he was sold he oâly brought ~l,5OO. He was born in Alabama. When he was bought he w~s carried from Alabama to Virginia. It was Col. Elmore who took him. He wanted to go to Alabama again, so Col. Elmore let a speculator take him back and sell hirn. He stayed there ~or several years and got homesick for South Carolina. He couldn‘t é~et his marster to sell him back here, so he just refugeed back to Col. Elniore ‘s plarita.~ tiori. Col. Elmore took hirn back and wouldn‘t let anybody have him.

“Pa married twic~e, about the same time. He married Dorcas