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Ex-31~v, Stories (Texas)






	“Ibr)ut four year ~ft~r that war peppy took me to Harrison Cou.ntv and I‘ve lived here ev r since and ~v!in~‘~rva1s p~y moves fron the F1anni~.n plwe to a ‚~1iin‘ farm ‘bout that time nrid sev‘ral yeer5 1~ter we w~s rnarri~d. It was at heer house and she h~d a blue serge suJt and I wore a cut~w~y Prince Albert suit an9. they was ‘bout 200 folks at our weddin‘. Th~ next ~y they give us an infair aM a big di~iner. ~Te raises sixteen chu1I~n to be growed. and six of the boys is still livin‘ and workiict‘ in Marshell.

Iti been pr~achin‘ the Śospel r~nd f~r~nin‘ since sl~ery time.

I ji~d the church most 83 y~r ~o wh‘n I was ~ajor G~aud‘s s1~ve and they ba~ti5es inc in the spring branch clost to where I finds the Lord. Whei~ I starts preachin‘ I couldn‘t rec~d or write and h~d to pre~ch what massa told. me and he S~J tell them nig~ers i~fen they‘ obeys the m~ssa they goes to Heaven bu.t I knowed there‘s eorrtethin~ better for them, but daren‘t tell them ‘cept on the sly. That I done lots. I tells •~iii iffen they kepps prayi~‘ the Lorl will set ‘em free. But since them days Ps done studied some and I preached all over Panol ~. a»d Harris OR County and I started the Edwprd‘~ Ghnpel over there in M~rshall ~nd p~tored lt till a few year ~o. It‘s nc~rned for me.

	III	don‘t preach nxu~ch now, ‘cause I ean‘t hold out to walk far and I got no other way to ~o. We has a $14.00 pension and lives on th~t

a~d whet we can raise on the farm.