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	~		NETTlE HENRY
		.	Meridian, Ißiaaissippi

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	Net-tie Henry, ex-slave, 19th Street, Meridian, Lauderdale County, is 82 years old. She is five feet tall and weighs one hundred pounds.

	“De ~ 1‘ s place was at Livingston, Alabama, on Alarnucha Creek. Dat‘s where I was born, but I jus‘ did git borned good when Mies Lizzie — she was Marse Chil‘s girl ~ married Marse John C. Higgins an‘ moved to Mer-ree-dian. Me an‘ my mammy an‘ my two sisters, Liza an‘ tempe, was give to Miss Lizzie.

	“I amt no country Nigger; I was raised in town. My manmiy ‚~‚ c3oked an‘ washedan‘. ironed an‘ done ever‘thing for Mj~8 Lizaie.

She live right where Miss Annie • she was Miss Lizzie‘s daüghter lIve now. But den de house face Eighth Street ‘stead o‘ Seventh Street, let it do now. Dey warnt any other houses in dat block. ‘Fore de Surrender, dey turni de houes to face Seventh Street ‘cause de town was growiri‘ an‘ a }~eap o.‘ folks was buildin‘ houses. I tell you somp1int-~ -‘-bout Seventh Street in a minute . Couldn‘ nobody dat lived in Msr‘ree-dian right after de Surrender ever forgit Seventh Street an‘ where it head to.

~	~ ~ ~ *My~ pappy didn‘ • go wid us t o i~er‘ree-dian • He b“ lo~iged to

one set o~ iiiltepeople, you see, an‘ my m~mniy b‘longed to another.

HOld:	~ to see us till de War started, den his folkS jus1 ‘kinda ~‚
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