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[[top margin]]reviewed May 8 +20th '89[[/top margin]]
PEOPLE
LANG, PROF. CECIL, 1820 Edgewood Lane, Charlottesville, Va. 22903. M.E. told me about him April 1970. He sent M.E. a book about William Blake. Mrs. Lang is French.
GILAM HORTON is Wadell Crobett's son in law. He lives in Oleander part of Wilmington. (3/1/71)
DR. SCHWARTZ: It was Shirley Schwartz, his wife, who first showed me in 1960, the five M.E. crayon drawings that they had bought in Wilmington earlier that year. (See my photo copy of M.E. letter to him, dated June 15 1960). She was a fellow graduate student in art at the U. of F. at that time. Since then they may have been divorced for M.E. told me in 1971 that he had visited her in a big trailer"in June" (which would be 1959) with his wife and six children. M.E. told me it was not the same wife who had been there in 1960. Of course M.E.  may have been wrong about that. The correct information could be had from U. of F. records of former graduate students. M.E. told me that he was teaching in a great University in Florida when he came in 1959.

WITCH. A man came to her in gate house and told her she was lucky to be living now, because in past centuries they would kill her as a witch

TEACHERS: 3rd and 4th grade teacher was Miss Mamie Knight. 5th grade teacher was Miss Alice Jackson, later Mrs. Armstrong; "she loved to hear me read".  M.E. moved to Wrightsville while in 5th grade.  Miss Ellen Story the Wrightsville teacher wanted her to come to school, but M.E. had to go to work. She never went to school in Wrightsville.

ANNIE MAY DAVIS, Mrs. F. E. Davis.  I visited her in her home in 1975 in Greensboro, and have photographs. She is, was, a dress designer, and professor at N.C. College in Greeensboro. M.E. told me (3/3/71) that Mrs. Davis (now prefers to be Anne, not Annie May) had been to Paris, England and Germany.  M.E. also told me that Anne has a picture of Great Grndmother Rachel (possibly Anne's grandmother) painted by Uncle Robert, Rachel's son.  Robert was "a real artist and Musician". He taught himself to play the organ. He had an organ in his house, and also played one in his church in Wilmington (Ebenezer Church).  Robert died in 1933. Anne's brother, James Lamb lives in Harlem, now a friend of mine. Another brother was named Taft.  Their father was William Lamb, Grandmother Mary's brother. Anne has a daughter who lives in Brooklyn.

Wayne - M.E.'s great grandson,  George's grandson, Jackie's son, "draws very well" (3/3/71)

JACKIE: daughter of M.E.'s son George: While M.E. was sitting

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