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FOLXIJORE		Edited by:
Spart anbur€ ~ Dist • 4		Elmer Thraage
May 16, 1937

STOR I ES PROM EX~SUVES

	“White folks,I sl~io fluff did ride wid de ‘Red Shirts‘ fer i~iarse Hampton. Dar was two other darkies ~ivhat rid wid us. Dey is bof daed now. One was Jack Jones, and de t‘othern I does riot re.. collect his name. Ham and Jack is both daed. Dat leave me de oriliest liVing one what rid in de company.

	“I rid in de company wid i~arse Jimmie Young and he was de Cap‘uri. He live out yonder at Sardis Church. ~v‘ybody know Marse Jimmie. He ain‘t quite as aged yet as I bees. i~ir. J.T. Sexton, he rid from uo around Cross Keys. I~e ~ot cie ‘hole in de wall‘ and I calls on Ïini ylt, and us talks over de olden days. Miss I3obo‘s hus.. band, he rid in Liarse Jimmie‘s company. (:~r. Preston B. Bobo) Our company camped at de oie Brick church out whar de rn~insion set now. lEt has alius been called de Lower ~air~orest Baptist Church, whar de wnite iolks still goes, ‘cet de done move de church down on de new road, further from de ~nansion arid de oie graveyard. I lows dat you knows 1 is speaking o‘ de new mansion .... ~r. Emsiie Nicholson‘s house on de forest at de Shoals. I is ~ot memory, but I ain‘t got rio larninE~ di&t 3 is proud oi, kaise I is seed tolks wid laming dat never knowed nothing worth speaking aoout. ~ii de way ‘~ru‘, I is done tuck and stucs to my white folks ~.. de ~ernocrat~c white folks, d.‘ t X is.

	“Sho was a pretty sicht to see ‘baut a hun‘ded mens up on fine horses wid red shirts on. I still sees dem in mp mind clear as day. Our red sr~irts ±~astened vvid a strong band ‘round de waist. Dar wasn‘t nar‘y speck o‘ white to be seed no whars on ‘em.