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	. Person Interviewed	Henry~Green~ Barton,~ Arkanaaa
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Uncle Henry Green, an ex.‘alave ninety years of age, is affectionately known thro~ighout a large part ot Phillips County as ~Bappy DayR. This nickname, acquired in years long past, was giTon him no doubt partly on account ot his remarkably happy disposition, b~tt mainly on account ot his love for the old religious song, ~Happy 1~y“, that Uncle Henry has enjoyed so long to sing and the verses of which his voice still carries out daily over the countryside each morning prcmptly at daybreak and again at sun.~ down, Uncle Henry and his old wife, Louisa, live with Uncle Henry‘s sister, Mattie Harris, herself seventy-~five years of age, on a poor forty acre farm that Mattie owns in the Hyde Park coirnunity just off the main highway between Walnut Corner and West Helena. Henry acts as janitor at the bitherian Church at Barton and the three do ~ch farming as they are able on the thin acres and with the few dollars that they receive each month train the Welfare Board together with the wppliea furnished them at the Relief Office these three old folks are provided with the bare necessities sufficient to sustain them.~ Uncle Henry, his wire ax~d sister Mattie ars the most interesting of the several. exislave Negroes in this county whom it has been my pleasure and good fortune to interview. As I sat 11th them on the porch of their old~.

rambling log house the following incidents and acc*znt ot their lives