Project #1655
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	.	  HENRY D. JENKINS
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	Henry D. Jenkins lives in a four-room frame houße, which he owns. His wife, two single daughters, his son crid hie 80fl0 wife and three small children live with him. The houße la constructed on a tract of 1a~id containing four hundred and eighty (480)‘ acres, ~hich Henry also owns.

He does not suffer with an inferiority complex. He is self-
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re1i~nt and thrifty, with a pardonable pride iz~ his farm and4rise from slavery to a position of respectibility as a church member, citizen, and tax payer. He i~ weil preserved physically, for his age, 87 years, alert in his movements arid animated in converaat ion.

	His plantation and home is in the SOuth western part of Fairfield Courrty, aix or seven hundrod~ yards east of State highway #215.

	t, Yea air, tho‘ I am a ‘speetable colored citizen, as you see me; I pa~rs ta~ea and owns my own plantation. I was once a slave on de Reese place, in Sumter County,below Colunibiao Just when I come to b‘long to Mr. Joseph HOwell, I don‘t know. I recollects dat Marss Joe had ‘bout twenty families of slaves and der. was six hundred acres in his planta— tion.

	N ~ miatreBs was his wife ‚ Miss Sara. They had four ckiillun. Misa Mattie ‚ married Oscar Chappell. Jo}innie ‚ married a Mie s Lever • Thomas ‚ mar— riad sone lady in Columbia, disremember de fazi‘ly usas. Misa Jeseie, married Rev. in, a Baptist preacher ‚ though her folks waan ‘t pf dat ‘s~ion; they was ~sthodist • Us niggera was ‘atructed early in ‘ligion. Took to Ce— dar Creek and camp ineetin‘. MY white folks had a fine carri~g.. A mulatto