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	“sri old wood.~chopping sons vchich is yet suns by rie~roes is:

tCome on baby, let us go down; Come on baby, let us go down; Ten~

pounder hammer above my head; ‘riough to kill my ‘body dead. ‚

	tti married E~osy Kennedy, a dau~hter ot Mose Kennedy, and had;,

five children, but only t~vo are now living. I have several ~rand~ children livin~ in Chester County. I worKed first on the Kennedy place.~ Their daughter, L~iss Julie, was good to us. Sbe married Robert Orr of Chester. She didn‘t have many beaux beThre,because her mother was so mean nobody ~antea to come around her. L~is$ Ju~Lie helped at :ay weddin~ Then my vviie wasn ~t aole to get breakt~st so 1 could ~o to work, L~iss Juliewould tell me to come to her house and eat. That was aiter her mother died.

	“I think Abraham Lincoln didn‘t do just right, ‘cause he~ threw all the ne~roes on the v~orld.v~iti~out any vvay oi getting alone. They ~as helpless. ~ie ought to ûave done it ~raduaiiy arid give ti-iem a

•chance to ~et on their ov.n. I think Eooker ashin~ton is a gre~at man anL has done great work, ‘oecause he says negroes must nave ec~uc~tion and learn to work, too, and riöt sit dov~n arid exoect more because he i.s educated.

	“~: joined the church because I b~elieve there is a ‘her~e~ after ‚ ‚ arid I wanted to learn more about Jesus arid get His ±orgive~ ness ±or what i~ had done~ wrong. We need Hirn always, because St . Ilatthews says the last state ot~ man is v~orse than the first.“


Source:	William Eratt (N.??), Newberry, S.C. RPD
Interviewer: G.L. Summer, Nevvberry, S.C. 9/9/37





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