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Lirs. &enevleve ~.. Chandler
Murrells Inlet, S. C.
Ge orgetown County





i~~ethodist church founded In Murrells Inlet community by colored leaders shortly after Mancipation. .

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III	too thank you.

(soon she began to rerninesce)

UYou could hear em over there slammingand banging. The

Yankee tear up the Dr. Flagg house but they didnt come Sunnyside. Bright day toL Old man Thomas Stuart lead em to Hermitage. Had team they take from ~ Betts and team they take from i)r. Arthur to Woodland. Free everywhere else and we wasnt free Sunnysi.de till June thirdor second. Sunday we-got our Freedom. Bright day too. Our colored people fare just like the white; wearing, eating, drinking. I wuz raise on the cream of earth. ~

They wuz glad. 5ign a contract for your boss you would

work the same and get pay the end of the year- - and tend you when you sick all the same. ~ (The same medical attention to be given that was given before Freedom ) Big guns shootingL House jar to Sunnyside and one day water shake out the glass~ ~ Su~an take her spyglass and stand behind one them big posses (posts) and spy them big boats shootingL And boss say, Donut get in front of them posses - they might