2.	364~

H:. was born a slave in northern Misaisaippi nar the email toma of Rod Benka and Byhalia, was the ‚ property of his owner, ~dmond Turner, end wae brought to ~i11ipa County by “hia ~hite to1k~“ aom~ months bstors the war. ~L‘urner, who owned ac~ie fifty other 1avea besides Henry, settled with hi. f~ti1y on a large acreage of land that he had purchased about fifteen miles west of Helena near Trenton. Both Tu.rner and his wife died aOOn atter taking up residence in A;rkanßaa leaving their estate to their two eons, ~zt and Nat, who were by

that ti~ grown young ~n, end being very capable and indnatrioue soon	I developed their property into one of the moat ~a1uab1s plazitations in th

County.

	As “Uncle“ Henry recalls, the Tamer place was, it might be said, a world within itself, in the confines of which was produced practically ev.rythin~ essential in the life of it. inhabitants end the proper and eucceasfu.1. conduct of its operations. Large herde of cattle, hogs, sheep, end goats provided a bount~fu1 aupply of both fresh and salt meats and fats. Cotton and wool wae carded, spun and woven into cloth for clothes, fast colored dyea were made ‘~y boiling different kinds of roots and barks, various colored berriea were also used for this purpose. Medicine was prepared from roots, herbs, flowere, and leaves. Stake and rider fences enclosed the fields end pastures and while most of the houses, barns and criba were constructed of logs, some lumber waa manufactured in crude samnifla in which was used what was known as a ‘alash saws. This waa 8O1flOthifl~ likS the crosacut eawa oX today and wee operated by a crank that gave the saw an alternating up and dom motion. Wheat was ground into tlo~ir and corn into mea]. in mills with atone ~irra almilar to thoas used in the ru.ral districts today, and power for this operation was obtained through th use of a trea&tll that was givsn its motion by horses or mules walking on an inclined, endless belt constructed of heavy wooden slats.