One day at Titusville, Pennsylvania, while Burke, the business agent, was registering our names and making arrangements for our accommodation, several of us started for the billiard room; but were met by the landlord, who stopped me and said that there was a party of roughs from the lower oil region who were spreeing, and had boasted that they were staying in town to meet the Buffalo Bill gang and clean them out.

The production of petroleum for commercial purposes began in 1859, when Mr. Drake drilled his well near Titusville, in Pennsylvania.

The city of Titusville now stands on that farm and those Pleasantville wells flow on, and that farmer who had studied all about the formation of oil since the second day of God's creation clear down to the present time, sold that farm for $833, no centsagain I say "no sense.

"When we livin at Titusville, I see my old mammy comin up de road jus as plain as day.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Interview with subject, Matilda Brooks; "Rooster-Town", eastern part of city, Monticello, Jefferson County, Fla. FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Alfred Farrell, Field Worker John A. Simms, Editor Titusville, Florida September 25, 1936 TITUS I. BYNES

He was prevailed upon while very ill to enter the Titusville Poor Farm where he has been for almost two years.

While there she married Lonny Hilyard who brought her to Titusville where she now resides, a relic of bygone days.

Henry and his parents resided for a while longer in Lownes County, and in 1880 they came to Titusville, with the two younger children, Solomon and Sonnie.

He is said to be worth around $250,000 and is Titusville's most influential and respected colored citizen.