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	T~O I S the oldest ex—slave In Wilkes County? This question was answered the other day when the quest ended on the sunny porch of a little cc~ttage on. Lexington Road in Washington-‘Wilkes, for there in a straight oldfashioned splitbôttcca chair sat “Aunt“ Adeline WIUIs basking in the waz~n Oç~tober sunshine. She Is remarkable for her age - she doesn‘t know just exactly how old she I s ‚ fran ail she tells and ~iat her “white folks“ say she is around a huxith‘ed. Her general health la good, she spends her days In the open and ~ tires only on the days she cannot be out In ~ her place In the sun. ~he has the brightest eyes, her sight is so good she has never had to wear classes; she gets around in the house and yard on her cane. !Ier memoi~ I s excellent ‚ only a time or two did she slowly shake her head and say apologeti cally - “~Śietresa ~ ‘ s been so long er go, I reckon I done

forgot“..

	PrOEn her long association with white people she uses very litUe• ~gro dialect and always refers to‘ her Mother as “~other“, never as Ma c~ Mami~iy as most negroes do. This is very noticabl~.,

	Her mother was MarinaRagan, “cauae she belonged to the Ragane,“ ex— plained Aunt J~dellne ‚ “end she was born cii the Ragen ~~antatlon right down on Little River in Greene County“ ( ceoi‘gia) • When Marina‘ s ‘young Ml strees“ married young ~fr. Mose Wright of Oglethorpe County, she took Marina to her new home to be her own servant, and there is where Adeline was born. The place was known as the Wright Plantation and was a very large one.