(c) 2001 Barb Wise (wisebarb@home.com)

EXHIBIT "M"

DEPOSITION TAKEN BEFORE A FIELD EXAMINER OF THE VETERANS AMDINISTRATION

DATE: 17 MARCH 1954

DEPOSED BY:  A. W. HENDRICKS

PERSON DEPOSED:  	BENNIE SELFE

Bennie SELFE:   I am white, male, married, age 60, reside at R. R. 1, Paoli, occupation, farmer on 258 acres.  I am not related to Inice HOLLEN or James DAVIS and have no interest in the outcome of this claim.

Q:  How long have you lived here?
A:  In 1919, I came back here from the Army, lived here a few years, then went to Indianapolis and worked there 10 years or so then came back here about 18 years ago.  In fact, I was born here and, with the exception of my time in the Army and my ten years in Indianapolis, have spent my entire life in this house.

Q:  How far was the HOLLEN home from your home?
A:  About a mile.

Q:  When did you first meet Inice HOLLEN and James DAVIS?
A:  I knew Inice when she was married to HOLLEN and I have known DAVIS since we were in school together as children.

Q:  Did you ever visit in the community before you returned to live here?
A:  We came down a couple times between 1934 and 1936 and stayed in this house two weeks at a time and we met the DAVIS' then. My wife and I, that is.

Q:  When were you married?
A:  On April 23, 1934.

Q:  Before that, did you come down here yourself?
A:  Yes I came down from time to time all the time I was in Indianapolis, to see my father, who lived about a half mile up the road.

Q:  Did you have occasion to see or visit Jim DAVIS in his home?
A:  No I never visited him in his home.  Sometimes I met him on the road.  He was always walking.

Q:  Did he during the years 1929 thru 1936 ever work for you or your father?
A:  I know he didn't work for me.  I don't think he worked for my father.

Q:  Do you know of his having worked during that time for anyone else?
A:  I don't know.

Q:  Do you have any knowledge as to how he supported his family during those years?
A:  I don't know.  I suppose he worked.

Q:  How about after 1936?
A:  He worked out, a little, and he farmed a little.

Q:  After 1936, did Woodrow ever live there?
A:  Yes, he came to stay a few days at a time.  I suppose he was working somewhere.  He changed jobs whenever they ran out, and farm jobs keep running out.  He was there at the time he went into service.

Q:  I have no further questions.  Do you have anything to add?
A:  No.  I am a WW I veteran, C-540 183.  

I certify that I have read the foregoing and my statements are true, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

				/signature of Bennie SELFE/

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17 day of March 1954; and I hereby certify that the foregoing statement was read by the affiant before signing.

				/signature of A. W. Hendricks/
				Field Examiner

(c) 2001 Barb Wise (wisebarb@home.com)