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32                                           Memories of a Long Life

bread and pay the rent, so they left and came to town, Durham.  Well, they did right well when all got regular work.  I came and would stay with different ones for 18 or 20 months.  Then I got a room for awhile on Main Street, but it was very disagreeable.  The folks who lived there and those near were all good to me, but I got a room from Mr. Parson on Stokes Street.  It was small but comfortable, and all the near neighbors were just as good and kind tome as I could wish.  I was not feeling well.  The last of January I got in such a fix that Dr. Schuler came to see me.  I was carried to Watts Hospital, where I spent February.  I was treated so kind and was greatly improved, but I cannot even write of the next four weeks.  As I was not expected to do much more I was as some of the old preachers, just put aside.  But God has been good to me and I will still trust Him, for I feel that if I am to be called home soon I want to be ready.

 

            I will write about what I did in 1927.  I was in Durham.  I got a room on Main Street.  Mr. Will Smith had the house rented from Mrs. Cole, a room on the north bottom floor, where the water was for all in the house.  A Mr. Perry with a wife and two little boys had two rooms upstairs.  Wilbur Mansfield said if I could get a room he would pay a dollar a week.  That was in September, 1927.  I went to see Mr. Pope and he let me have bedstead, mattress, a heater and a resting chair.   It was a cold room and not much comfort, so I found I could get a room on Stokes Street where I could be more comfortable, yet there was no fireplace or closet for clothes.  A Mr. Parson had the house in charge.  My room had a porch on the back, with steps to go down to the ground.  A Mr. Ham with a wife and one child, a girl 4 or 5 years old, had two rooms adjoining  mine.  The little girl was with me a great deal and they were all good to me.  Mr. Parson put a glass in a window where one was out at his own expense, and paid light bill.  Mrs. Ham paid me several dollars while I was there for taking care of her little girl, while I spent some time with some of the people from the churches up in the city.  I was in what was Edgemont section, but at that time I did not know but few.  Dr. Lee Battle’s wife was a relative of mine; we were raised near each other and attended school, being in the same classes in most of our studies.  Her family were all of the M. E. Church.  As Dr. Battle was Baptist, she joined with him. When I came to Durham I often spent a few days with them and went with them to their church.  I think that is the cause of the people hunting me up, hearing that all my people were dead and I was afflicted.

 

The little verse I pray to practice says I must give a strict account of every idle word.