Pike-Lamar County GaArchives News.....What A Colored Man Has Done November 27 1890
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The Barnesville Gazette, Barnesville, Ga.

What A Colored Man Has Done

It is all nonsense to say that a colored man can not prosper and accumulate 
money in this portion of our country. There are numerous examples to sustain 
this assertion. Henry Purifoy is a colored man living some miles from 
Barnesville on the Yatesville road. He owns a good plantation, mules, horses and

cattle. He is worth about $2,500. He is out of debt and lives well. He has good 
credit in Barnesville, Thomaston, Culloden and Yatesville, and his best friends 
are among the white people. He never had any trouble. He behaves himself, 
attends to his own business, labors hard and he is prospering just as every man 
will do, who does this way.

Henry Purifoy is a negro that deserves to do well.

(Transcribed 12/4/02 Lynn Cunningham)
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