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ELIZIBETH JONSON By Rachel Buick

Elizabeth Jonson was born in Agusta,Georgain 1867.Which whos parents hade been slaves.She married a man named Jacob Walker Harrisin in 1883 when she was 15.Latter she was the mother of 9.She lived untill 1942.She was very reiligous and spent most of her time at church. She very much valued education,as well as her children.over the years several of her poems and vignettes published in the newspaper.some of these where in her manuscript of her life. which she wrote at the age of 55.sHE Wrote a book about her child hood and one about her adult story Shew split these in to two books one with her adult and the other with her child hood.All though she died in 1942 she holds a place in all of us!!!

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