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July 21, 1973

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MINNIE EVANS

N.H.S. You do don't you?

M.E. Oh, yes, I go. Mama can't go to church. She have to almost wear diapers. That hemmorroids get her bowels. She had to go keep medicine in her to keep her bowels open. So she don't worry about it now. This coming tomorrow, the pastor and the members will come and give her Holy Communion.

N.H.S. Oh! Good.

M.E. Every fourth Sunday they come and give her Holy Communion.

N.H.S. Oh! that's marvelous.

M.E. She looks forward for that. 

N.H.S. How many come? How many people?

M.E. Oh! it's according to how many the officers you know and some of the other members of the church. Sometime she has a lot of them about 10 or 12 or something other like they come and sing songs and pray and then give her Holy Communion. Then when I moved home back with her I take Holy Communion with her or something like that.

N.H.S. That's nice.

M.E. Oh, yes. So she's looking forward to it for tomorrow.

So I'm telling you Miss Starr it's getting so bad here in Wilmington. Here last week it was, what date? I didn't know any of them but George knowed and Gary he knows one or two of the man. A woman came to another woman's house with a cup of lye and throwed it in this woman's face 

N.H.S. No, Minnie.

M.E. And ruin her face and her eyes. I don't know how they understand or what it was but anyhow when her husband came home or her son he went to this woman's house, shot her and her son and another one in the family, killed two of them and one of them is wounded and in the hospital and the one where they threw the lye in the face she's in a critical condition with her face. But he ran away and got away day before yesterday, Gary told me. When he shot them he run but they got him. And three weeks ago, not far from where George live, man was