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low raurniir or rolling sound like distant ±hunder, immediately followed by the swaying of the church and a cracking sound from the joists and rafters of t~ie buildi.ng. The women folks set up a screamin~. The men folks set up a hol].erings ‘Oh LordyL Jesus save meL We believeL Come Almighty Kingi‘ The preacher tried to quiet us ‚ but we run out the church in the moonlight ~ men and women crying and praying. The préacher, Rev. Charlie i~ore, continued the services outside and opened the doors of the church,and every blessed soul come forward and joined the

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	“I married Fannie Irwin, and God blessed us all the days of her life. Lly daughter, iñaggie, married a Collins and lives in the Harlem section of New York City. L~r daughter, Salue, lives also in 1-larlem, Greenville Village. Lialinda, named for ir~ mother, lives and works in Columbia, S. C.

	‘tOn the death of i~r wife, Fannie~ I courted and married the~.dow Lizzie Williams. The house we live in is her own property. She had two children~when we married, a boy and a girl. The, boy got killed at the schoolhouse two years ago. The girl is working in Coluiri~bia, S. C. I ~tt a superannuated minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church~and receive a small sum of money from the denomination, yearly. The amount varies in different years. At no time is it sufficient to keep me in food and clothing and support.

	“I have taken nothing to do with politics all niy life, but my race has been completely transformed ‚in that regard, since Mr. Roosevelt has been president. Left to a popular vote of the raoe ‚ Mr • Roo sevelt would get the sol id. South ‚ against any other man on any ticket he might run on. He is God Mmighty‘ ~ gentleman. By that, I mean he is brave in the presence of the blue-bloods, kind in the présence of the conunon people, and gentle to the lowly and despised isregro.“