Pike County GaArchives News.....A Rich Negro October 12, 1893
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The Marietta Journal October 12, 1893

A Rich Negro.

In the western portion of Pike county, a few miles from Molena, Ga., there 
lives a remarkable negro. His name is Jake Knight. He is remarkable for 
several reasons, the chief of which is possibly, that he is rich, for some 
estimate his wealth as high as $30,000. He is a farmer and makes about one 
hundred bales of cotton each year. He owns his own land, several hundred 
acres, runs a public gin, has a good home, owns fine stock and cattle and is 
able to live like a prince. He hires other negroes to work for him and stands 
for them, just as any white farmer would. He makes them work too, and does not 
tolerate idleness. It is said that you never see a crowd of negroes collected 
around his home, as you see them at other negro homes. He has little or 
nothing to do with politics but is a business man. Any merchant is glad to 
sell [to] him and he can get any amount of money that he wants from anybody or 
any banker who knows him. He is polite to white people, and is respected by 
them. He has a school house on his plantation for the children of his 
laborers. While he dresses neatly, he does not dress extravagantly at all, and 
is making money. He is constantly buying lands around him. We are told that 
his property was worth from $20,000 to $30,000, and he is in all probability 
by far the richest colored man in Pike county - Barnesville Gazette


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