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AL ROSBORO

EX~‘SLkVE 90 YEARS OLD.
Project #1655
w.	w. Dixon Winnsboro, s. C.
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	A]. Rosboro, with his second wife, Julia, a daughter, and six small grandchildren, lives in a three~room frame house, three hundred yards east of
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the Southern Railway tracVj,~S ~ about two miles south of Woodward, S. C., in Fairfield county. Mr. Brice cives the plot of ground, four acres with the house, to Al, rent free. A white man, Liz‘. W. L. Harvey doea the ploughing of the patches for him. Al has cataracts on his eyes and can do no work. since this story was written he has received his first old age pension check of eight dollars from the Social %-~elfare L~oard in Columbia, b. C.

	“Does I know what a nonecenarian is? No sah, what dat? Old folks? Well ‚ dats a mighty lone name and I been here a m±(~‘hty long time • Glad you say it ‚ s a ~ honor and a privilege by de mercy of de Lord. I‘ s thankfult You wants to know where I was born snd who my white folks then?

	tu was bornjust one end a half mile b!low Vthite Oak, S. e•,0~ de

old 1J)arse Billie Brice plaoe. ~r pap~y b‘longto old i~1±ss Jennie ~ but rnaE)lny b‘lon~ to Marse William Brice. Her name Axm• ~y old mistress name Liary,

daughter of de Sirriontons, on Du~pers Creek.	S tIYOU wants de fust thing I ‘members, then travel t10~ de years ‘tu

I come ‘t;o seltin‘ rig5ht here in dis chair. \~ell, reckon us git through today?

Take a power1~u1 si~ht of dat pencil to put it all dcvwn• .	S ~ . “Let me see. F~st thing I ‘members well, was a big crowd wid. picks


~ç,. ~ and shovels, a buildin‘ de-railroad track right out de other side of de bi~

road in froat of old mar~terts.,house. De ~same ~çailroad dat is dere today. When defust eugine come ti‘irougii, pui~f~in‘ am~ tootin‘, lak to soare ~ everybody to






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