Project #1655
w. W. Dixon	~ ~
~j~sboro, ~ o.
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JACK JOBIISON	‚

EX—SJ4VE~84 YEARS OLD.


	“You see me right here, de sin of both races in my face, or was it jU6t de sin of one? ~j ~arster was n~i father, h18 ~ wa~ Tom Reed, and he lived six miles from Lancaster Court House. Dats where I was boru. My mammy name Jane ‚ ‘ t know where she come from. My ~rster wss kind to us. I done no work nnich, just picked peas azid sich like during de war • I was n~r rnaxim~r‘ e only child ‚ and when de ~a~‘ W~8 over, and I grow up, I. left dere and come to Cedar Creek, low part of Fajr~ field County. I marry a gal, Bella Cook, and ~s had sixtbau chilltm, thirL~een of them is a livin‘ now. I then marry Hannah Dubard, a widow. She and me have had no child.“

	“1 b‘long to de Sanctified Church, and you have to go dowu into de water and come up straight way out of de water to b‘long to dat chureh. liliere is it ? Its on Little Cedar Creek in dis county. ~ho de preacher? Eis name is the Reverend ~dmunds. U8 sings spirituals, one is ‚ ‚ Dat Heavenly Railroad i&, another ~8 ‘Dere is a Rook in n~r Heart ‚ ‚ another, ‚ So glad I ‘ni ‚ but I‘ d rather be up yonder Lord‘ • Some colored churches ‘sinuate a child born out of wedlock ce.n‘t enter de king— dom of heaven. Our church say he can if he ain‘t a druxikard, and is de

husband of one wife and to belieie on, and trust in de Lord as your Davior, and live a right kind of life dat he ~proves of. Dat seem reason to me, and I jine aucl find peace as long as I does right.~‘

“Never ‘was sick a day in n~ life, can plow yet, eat three meals

a day, but can‘t sleep as im.ioh as I use to, six hours plenty for me now.

8 just here today fincUnt out ‘bout dat old age pension date a comm.
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iTill you kinda keep a eye on it for me and let me tend to de ox and de

grass at n~r ho~ on Little Cedar Creek? A short 1088 is soon curried, so dats tbo~ all I kin ‘member to tell you now.“