Malinda (Collins) Hadley (1861 - 1942)

Born 12 Apr 1861 in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States

Wife of Dan H Hadley — married 13 Oct 1881 in Monroe, Mississippi, United States

Died 12 Jan 1942 at age 80 in Arkansas, United States

Biography

Linley (Collins) Hadley is a part of US Black heritage.

Malinda was born in 1861. She passed away in 1942.^[1][2]

Linley Hadley was interviewed in Madison, Arkansas in about 1937 about her life and her time as an enslaved person.

"I was born the very day the Civil War started, April 12, 1861. I was born in Monroe County, close to Aberdeen, Mississippi. My papa was named Dave Collins. He was born far back as 1832. He was a carriage driver. Mama was born same year as papa. She was a field hand and a cook. She could plough good as any man. She was a guinea woman. She weighed ninety-five pounds. She had fourteen children. She did that. Had six or seven after freedom. She had one slave husband. Her owners was old Master Wylie Collins and Mistress Jane. We come 'way from their place in 1866. I can recollect old Master Collins calling up all the n----rs to his house. He told them they was free. There was a crowd of them, all sizes. Why all this took place now, I don't know. Most of the n----rs took what all they have on their heads and walked off. He told mama to move up in the loom house, if she go off he would kill her. We moved to the loom house till in 1866. One night some of the n----rs what had been Collins' slaves come and stole all of mama's children, toted us off on their backs at night. Where we come to cross the river, Uncle George Tunnel was the ferryman. He had raised mama at his cabin at slavery. He took us to his white folks. We lived with them a year and then mama moved on Bill Cropton's place and we lived there forty years. All the Croptons dead now. We come to Arkansas in 1891 close to Cotton Plant. In 1898, I come to Madison. Been here ever since. Grandma belong to Master Rogers were we knowed George Tunnel. Mama, named Harriet, and Aunt Miller was sold."

"I got a boy what works. We own our house and all this place (one-half acre). I don't get no help from nowhere."

Slave Owners

1. Wylie Collins

Interview: Linley Hadley was interviewed in Madison, Arkansas by Miss Irene Robertson as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #143796912 (accessed 6 July 2024)
   Memorial page for Malenda Collins Hadley (12 Apr 1861-12 Jan 1942), citing Scott Bond Cemetery, Madison, St. Francis County, Arkansas, USA; Maintained by Melissa Joy TRP (contributor 47982086).
2. ↑ Death: "Arkansas, Death Certificates, 1914-1969"
   Arkansas Department of Vital Records; Little Rock, Arkansas; Death Certificates; Year: 1942; Roll: 1; Certificate Number: 1076
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61777 #482543 (accessed 6 July 2024)
   Malinda Hadley death 12 Jan 1942 (born 12 Apr abt 1861), daughter of David Collins & Harriet Collins, in Madison, St Francis, Arkansas, USA.
3. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Linley Hadley - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 3; pages 127-128, images 128-129 of 394.

• "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V28Q-9QH : 14 February 2020), D. H. Hadley, 1881.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKVB-NRL : accessed 23 January 2023), Malinda West Halley, Madison, St Francis, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 124, sheet 18A, family 268, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 63; FHL microfilm 1,374,076.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDFF-DX9 : 31 January 2021), Malinday Hadley, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMGX-TY7 : accessed 23 January 2023), Melinda Hadley, Madison, St Francis, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 20, sheet 2B, line 100, family 56, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 93; FHL microfilm 2,339,828.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ2W-RXK : 8 January 2021), Mallenda Hadley, Madison, St. Francis, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 62-21, sheet 3A, line 28, family 54, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 171.

Possible Enslaver

"United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKLR-D2N2 : 16 October 2019), Wiley Collins, 1860.

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GF-JDC : 18 February 2021), Wilie Collins, 1860. [In her interview, Malinda said Wylie's wife was Jane and that he only had daughters.]