eek endJ.fl6 Sept.~ 1937.	‚ ~	i~iary ~. Poole,	39~ ~
	~-2OO	. ~	~ I	Identification No.0149-4366
	~-2EO	: :	•	‚ ;	Federal Writers‘ Project,Dist.2.
	~:. :~‚	VŒi:~ Project 3609, Mobile Ala.
~.	IT TOOK ~5O.Oo to put I~CLE CHÀ~RLIE ON DE FLOOR“I

(WrItten by Mary A. Poole. )

~n oie. colored men ‚ named. Charlie Van Dyke ‚ livi ng at 713 S • Lawrence ~ street, Mobile, Ala. claims to be 107 years old, but has no authentic record of his birth. He told the writer he was born in North Carolina, and ~en he was ten years old, Mr. William Martee King, who owned his mother tti‘ellie Drisb“, moved to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where the King reiaily rernß~1ned about a year,moiring then from Tuscaloosa down into Dallas County, near Selna, ~la.

	ihile i~‘ir. and Mrs. King and their family remained in Tuscaloosa, Cjiarlies mother Nellie Drish met and married~r~~~i Dykex, who belonged to the Van Dykes, who owned the neighboring plantation.

	Charlie assumedhis step-father‘s natue, but knew little of him, or of the Van Dykes to whom his step-father belonged, because, as Charlie explained to the writer, i~fter the Kings moved down in Dallas County, (as Charlie always referred to his home in Llabema ) and brought his mother ~e1lie &ad her family with them, his stepf~ather could only visit them nce a year, and that privilege was given him on Christmas Day. He had to ‘tart back the next day, as he had to make the trip to and fro on horse ack.

	uncle Charlie said. the Kings owne d. about a thousand acres in Dallas ounty end had about a hundred head of slaves, but with all their riches
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~~ey lived in a plain plank house.

	i~e saLlIed end said “Now-a-days folks passing such a house, would ay t~o1ored folks live there,,‘“

	The slave quarters were the regular log wood cabin, said Uncle Charlie, lth space between each row and a little polt Of groUtid to separate each bin to itself.‘