After £3 year* ot farming, which he laved, the

After £3 year* ot farming, which he laved, the young man came .m Washington and operated a harness shop for several years. , He then married Virginia Jackson Daniel of Rappahannock, and the couple lived at The Oaks for several years. In Man* of 1901, Mr. Slaughter went to Newport News to work in die ship yards. Hearing that the Jefferson Hotd in Richmond had burned the previous night, he hurried around to see the remains. The walls were standing, but inside wba a burned shamble.

Mrs. Slaughter joined her husband shortly, but due to her ill health, they returned to Washington. He farmed the Greenaway Farm, then known as “Willis Hill”. He also lived in what is now the Hugh J. Racer home, for 11 years, the Kinsey Farm, for 10 years, and at Mcadowbrook Farm for two years, as well as in Flint Hill briefly. (Mr. Slaughter did not just say “couple, several”—he gave the day, month and year, and we daresay, if we had asked the time of day, he would have had it on the tip of his tongue.) \ .From 1927-1939,1 the Slaughter family lived in the Wood house in Washington. After the death of Mrs. Slaughter, Mr. Allie moved into the D. G Updike home, where he made his home for 13 years. He then moved to the jail house, where he now boards1 with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Burke. (Many are his jokes about "being sent to jail” and finally being made a “trusty”.

For many years, Mr. Slaughter was a construction worker, 'building several bams in this vicinity, and doing extensive work on the Wade Massie home and on the Rappahannock School House.

This working with wood has grown into a love, which shows iftelf in the delicate masterpieces he has turned out, from shaping tiny monkeys out of peach seeds, to figuring a miniature grandfather’s clock, and on the larger scale, lovely coffee tables and sideboards.

Many of his friends have received the tiny monkeys. Since the first, made in 1895, he estimates,

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