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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 pracher, 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, iaggie, 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 prsence of the conunon people, and gentle to the lowly and despised isregro.