"I dont know but I was a man long afore it all started, lady, and I was thirty-three years old when I married 'bout a year after the surrender."
When asked why he waited so long to get married, Uncle Charlie said:
"Didn't you know in slavery days they wouldn't alow a man to marry unless he could split a hundred rails a day?"
The writer smiled and said:
"Now, Uncle Charlie," and then he chuckled, and said:
"Well, I guess the right one didn't come 'long till I met her."
When asked if he had a regular wedding feast, he replied.
"Yes, lady, it took $50.00 to put me on the floor."
Charlie and Theresa had "five head of children", as Uncle Charlie expressed it, of which three are dead and two living, but he claims his children do not look after him, but his church folks and friends give him the helping hand. He is a member of the St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church, of Mobile.
Uncle Charlie says he has his religion from the foregone prophets, that he "don't understand this day religion", that he came along when people were serving Daniel's God, and when people had to be born again, now they serve a sanctified God and jump from one religion to another.