Jenny Proctor, 87, was born in Alabama in 1850. She was enslaved by the Proctor family and was forced to begin working as a young girl. As soon as she was old enough, she was forced to labor in the cotton fields alongside adults. She and her husband John Proctor moved to Texas after emancipation and settled in Leon County near the old town of Buffalo. They worked as sharecroppers. After her husband’s death, she moved to San Angelo with her son.

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