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- 17 - All of those are very pleasant memories to me because^[[,we were a]] [[strikethrough]] there was [[/strikethrough]] family. Aunt [[strikethrough]] Lizzy [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Lizzie, and Aunt Annie]] lived with us, Aunt Mamie would come ^[[to visit]], and in the summer, my Aunt Mannie would quite often come visit us from Dallas, Texas. They would all stay at our house. [[strikethrough]] It was [[/strikethrough]] ^[[We were]] just ^[[one big]] family, [[strikethrough]] there that you felt[[/strikethrough]]. I think that's the trouble with ^[[the world]] today, [[strikethrough]] it's [[/strikethrough]] ^[[family life has]] just gone. Education of Thomas family: [[strikethrough]] Catherine [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Fanny, Kathryn]] and I went to ? ^[[Claflin School. Fannie]] school in the first and second grades [[strikethrough]] before we came here [[/strikethrough]]. Alma went to Sixth Avenue School which was the grammar school. As I remember, both girls and boys attended the ^[[same]] school^[[s]]. [[strikethrough]] It was public school. [[/strikethrough]] We had to pay a little something for our books. The reason I have that book now^[[,(Cyr's Second Reader)]] [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] because it was quarantined with us when my sister^[[s and I]] had diphtheria. The entire house was fumigated after my sister ^[[Fannie]] passed and the book was along with [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the fumigation]]. [[strikethrough]] Catherine [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Kathryn]], Alma, and I were partly educated in Columbus, Georgia [[strikethrough]] those two years [[/strikethrough]]. ^[[Alma had completed the ninth grade.]] Then momma began to think [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] what [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] ^[[she and father]] should do ^[[about their children's education]]. [[strikethrough]] We [[/strikethrough]] ^[[They]] decided that we would [[strikethrough]] come [[/strikethrough]] ^[[move]] to Washington. My aunt ^[[Sally]] was living [[strikethrough]] here then [[/strikethrough]] ^[[in D.C.]]. [[strikethrough]] She [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Aunt Sally]] prevailed on momma^[[, and Pappa]] to move here with [[strikethrough]] us [[/strikethrough]] ^[[her family]] to this house^[[,]] and to buy it [[strikethrough]] together with them, which [[/strikethrough]] ^[[with she and her husband, we did buy with them, but it ]] did not pan[[strikethrough]]ned[[/strikethrough]] out. [[strikethrough]] So, we bought^[[,]] it^[[,]] again when it [[/strikethrough]] ^[[The house]] was sold at auction^[[, we bought it at auction]] [[strikethrough]] again [[/strikethrough]] and started all over again. My Uncle Willie had just moved to Atlanta. He and Henry Lincoln Johnson were working at the Custom's House in Atlanta when the riots broke. [[margin]] This is on the riot in Atlanta [[/margin]] [[strikethrough]] Mr. Johnson was the husband of the poet Georgia Douglas Johnson. They lived at 15th and S Street at the Northeast corner. [[/strikethrough]] At that time, you ^[[riots in Atlanta]]
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