I have had five children. Three are livin'. Two are dead.

I never worked until after he died. He left me with five little children

to raise.

He was the only man I ever 'knowed' in all my life from girlhood up.

[Footnote 8: The Synagogue has no clock on the exterior, but Isabell

persisted with her name of "Clock Church."]

N. C. District: No. 2 [320017]

Worker: Mary A. Hicks

No. Words: 738

Subject: Ex-Slave Story

Story Teller: Essex Henry

Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt

[TR: Date Stamp "JUN 26 1937"]

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