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EUa B°yd’ Nearing 100, Lives Up To Teaching Of Jesus mama somebody's here?” asked Mrs. Ella Lynch Boyd in a snappy style that belies her advancing age. She is somewhere near 100 years old or just under that age. but she says no one knows just how old she is. She doesn’t know. ‘‘People used to come to your house, I think they call it census now, and they would see children and give them ages and 1 was in that bunch,” she says. "That's how the welfare people came up with me being 100,” Mrs. Boyd said. According to Mrs. Boyd, the courthouse in Elmore County, Alabama where she was born burned down and her date of birth went up in smoke. In an exlusive interview with the Charlotte Post this week, Mrs. Boyd talked about her life and the things that have made her happy and sad. "It’s hard to remember what I did as a child," Mrs Boyd said. But, she remem-' bered the one room school house she attended and learn ed how to read. She still reads now, sometimes without the aid of glasses, and the number one best seller on her list is the Bible. * rememoer tnat some body was smart enough to get a house for that school,” Mrs. Boyd said. She recalled that children of all ages were plac ed in the same room. “I don't remember the book we used, but it was a big blue book and we wrote on slates instead of paper,” she said. “When we went out of the schoolroom we went into the cotton patch to work,” Mrs. Boyd recalled. “I remember having to walk two to three miles to school,” she said. Growing up at the tail end of the prohibition of legal slavery was a trumatic time for all blacks and Mrs. Boyd said her life was no exception. White Mob She remembers vividly horror she felt when she saw of her own cousin, a 13-year old boy burned at the stake by a white mob of Ku Klux Klan smen in the churchyard of an Alabama church she-and other blacks attended. “Some little white gal had told her daddy that the 13-year -old boy and his 14-year-old uncle had looked at her a long time and in a funny way and the girl’s daddy got the people stirred up and they put the 13-year-old in jail.” “The mob got the boy out of • . jail and brought him to the courtyard. They put poles in , the ground. The boy was cry ing. He was scared to death. I remember their names were Zeb and Claude,” she said. Mrs. Boyd said one of the members of the boy’s family said a prayer for him and the Klansmen set fire to him and he was burned to death. She said the following morn ing, one local white man saw . the heart of the burned youth and said "there’s that Nig ger’s heart," and stomped it. The man who did that went home that evening and died, she said. _ “It was bad then, colored people were getting killed and beat up so much, the white folks were acting like they were enjoying so much. They were even stopping colored men coming from church and they would beat them and rape the women. It was only after a local crack down on the acts of brutality being commited by whites that the terrorism eased up, Mrs. Boyd said. "One day in court the judge almost cleared the court house,” by sending to jail several white men for their admitted roles in several kill ings. There were some black her oes around when Mrs. Boyd was young but the one she recalled was Booker T. Wash ington, founder of Tuskeggee Institute, in Tuskegee, Ala. - “We didn't know nothing a-, bout presidents and governors — nor more than what the white folks told us," she said. Mr. Boyd never voted in Ala bama, but after coming to Charlotte in 1944 to live with daughter, Mrs. Annie Kosie Poole, she has voted. Mrs. Boyd knew the late Or. Martin Luther King Jr., but if you ask her who gives her inspiration, she will tell you "Jesus.” "My knees are bent from serving the Lord. I don’t be lieve that's why I'm still here, I’ve been born again!” she declares proudly. At the Mount Moriah Prim itive Baptist Church, where Mrs. Boyd is an active mem ber, she tries to live up to the teachings of Jesus. “I like the part in the Bible where Jesus told Nicademus 'yea must be born again.' ” she said. When Mrs. Boyd is not read ing the Bible or at church, she likes to sew. She was a seam stress when she was younger. She lives at 3060 Ridge Ave., . with her daughter and grand daughter, both named Annie Rosie Poole. She has a total of three children, two boys and a girl and she has two grand children and two great grand children. ” D—_Tourney Will Pull 10,000 Fans To Hampton hosting the Central Intercol legiate Athletic (CIAA) Bas ketball Tournament mean to Hampton, Virginia? Well it means bringing the nation's number one black basketball tournament to the port city and all the reward that are associated with it. I More that 10,000 fans will -converge on Hampton, Vir ginia Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 26-28,1976 for the 31st Annual CIAA Bas ketball Tournament. These people will come to the city to see some excellent basketball, reunions with old friends, attend social events, visiting shopping centers and other interesting attractions in the area. It is estimated that tnese persons will be in Hamptom for three to four days and will spend on the average of $50 a day. thus Hampton and the : * surrounding area economic coffers will swell by more than a million dollars. The CIAA tournament spends money on food, lod ging. mercantile and the bev erages associated with world class sporting events.In addi tion. the host city will spend a wad of money entertaining? visiting friends and long-time? buddies. Tickets and housing for the tournament can be claimed by contacting the CIAA Tourn ament Office, 413 Mercury Blvd. Hampton, Virginia. - 1 1 "■ MOTHER ELLA LYNCH BOYD ...Somewhere near 100 years old USE YOUR BANKAMERICARD OR MASTER CHARGE To buy your subscription of The Charlotte Post Subscriptions may also be purchased at all Mechanics & Farmers Banks 101 Beatties Ford Road 2101 Beatties Ford Road 951 East Independence Blvd. Now Serving The Best In HOME COOKED MEALS BREAKFAST-LUNCH-DINNER Whole Cakes & Pies Delicious Candy Apples j - WEST BOULEVARD DRIVE-IN 2604 W. Blvd. - Next door to Elder’s ■} Mr. William “W. J.” Jant - Owner Mrs. Mildred Caldwell - Head Cook t £ ALL DOUBLEKNITS 1 J If Regular • 1.00 yd. I Brushed Denim $1,50 yd, $ ftPoIyester & Cotton Prints ftll« Ytl. r ' 3lU0% Polyester Doubleknit Prints-1 U_$1.95 yd. 3 | Men’s And Ladies Double Knits f • I._$1.50 yd. | PRICES!-3 The first time you buy it for its reputation. 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