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Dr. Swann finished [[strikethrough]] Maharry(sp?) [[/strikethrough]] ^[[M'eharry's]] Medical School in [[strikethrough]] Memphis [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Nashville]], Tennessee. He married [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] of Mr. [[strikethrough]] Cherry's [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Terry's]] daughters ^[[- Iola]] They had no children. They built [[strikethrough]] their [[/strikethrough]] ^[[a beautiful]] home at 611 Third Avenue. The house [[strikethrough]] has been [[/strikethrough]] ^[[is now]] torn down. A church is [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] ^[[built]] now. ^[[on the site of the Swann's home]]

I remember an undertaker named Toole^[[s]]. He has a son name^[[d]] Ed Toole^[[s]] who is a lawyer in Chicago. His daughter was a librarian. The only colored dentist that I remember is [[strikethrough]] Carl. His[[/strikethrough]] ^[[Dr. Cobb and his]] family lived on Fifth Avenue.

In 1906, there was a colored Young Men's Christian Association located at 1313 First Avenue. When George Foster Peabody, the great financier returned to Columbus for the sesqui-Centennial in 1978, he built a very imposing marble YMCA for the Whites on Eleventh Street. For the Negroes, he built a brick YMCA on Ninth Street.

^[[I remember]] there [[strikethrough]] were [[/strikethrough]] two ^[[colored]] methodist churches in Columbus -- [[strikethrough]] the St. James' [[/strikethrough]] ^[[St. James A.M.E]] Church and the [[strikethrough]] St. John's [[/strikethrough]] ^[[St. John A.M.E]] Church. We attended St. John's Church on Fifth Avenue between 15th and 16th. We were Methodists then. When we moved to Washington we became Episcopalians. There were also Black Baptist churches in Columbus, but I don't [[strikethrough]] know any of [[/strikethrough]] ^[[remember]] their names.

After the Civil War^[[,]] in March 1865, Congress established the Freedm[[strikethrough]] a[[/strikethrough]]^[[e]]n's ^[[Freedmen's]] Bureau as a temporary agency to care for the freed men and the abandoned lands. ^[[in Georgia]] The ^[[Free]] Freedm[[strikethrough]]a[[/strikethrough]]^[[e]]n's Bureau was to teach the freed men skills, give them some work,