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Matilda Benson

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Hattie Anne Nettles, a freed slave, living in Opelika, Alabama at the time of the interview. It is indicated she is 80 years old, this would make her birth date approximately 1857. She was born in Tallapoosa, Georgia. Her father and mother were Archie and Matilda Benson. She had eight brothers and sisters; Charlie, George, Abraham, Mose, Lucinda, Mandy, Margaret and Queenie. She married Bill Lockhart, they had 15 children.

You can access the full Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration 1937 interview with Hattie Lockhart at this address:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.010/?sp=303
Mother of:

Hattie Anne Nettles, a freed slave, living in Opelika, Alabama at the time of the interview. It is indicated she is 80 years old, this would make her birth date approximately 1857. She was born in Tallapoosa, Georgia. Her father and mother were Archie and Matilda Benson. She had eight brothers and sisters; Charlie, George, Abraham, Mose, Lucinda, Mandy, Margaret and Queenie. She married Bill Lockhart, they had 15 children.

You can access the full Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration 1937 interview with Hattie Lockhart at this address:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.010/?sp=303


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