Ood.e No.	~. ~  ~ ~ ‚
P~rojeot, 1885.(1)	Red~oed f~r~‘~worde
Pz~.par.d~ by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten bf~
P3aøe, Marion, S.C.	____________________ 187
Date, Lugtzst 4, 1937	Fige ~ ~


8YLV~IÀ OAK1~ON
	b~:~$1ave, age 85.	39~2 r
	Plorenee, 8.0.	  ~„



	“i: lives here by myself oauee my huebaM been dead three yeare. Moved here fore my ohl].lun went to de war. I go to work en buy dli here home en get whe‘ I eau‘ pay tax en people tel]. me not to move. $ay, rent me bed. en catch me a dollar, if it sin‘ a ein to rent your bed. for a doUar. One of de big officere of de town tell me dat last week en he die next day. Goverzmient take my house en when dey carry sick peoples from de jail, dey bring em here fore dey die, It alu‘ but one night journey. Lin‘ gwine le t dem be I ive enough to ran away. Lin ‚ got no kin to leave de house to en dey tel). me stay on here. Dey say I work 80 hard. to get die houae dat dey alu‘ gwine make me leave here.“

	(Aunt 8ylvis has a aign in her front yard. It seeme ehe took the frame of a large picture and. inserted a pieoe of pasteboard into it. 8he explained that thie sign is a warning to evil doers not to molest her. She says that they mast not come past this ~ sign. The words on the sign are somewhat illegibly written. The interviewers were able to make out these words : “This te a house of the Lord. Don‘t go pass. Thie is a house of the Lord.....................“ Sign is d*ted. Maroh 1, 1937).