Results for subject term "Mittie Hall Boarding House, # 50 McClellan St.<br />
Mittie Hall was born 1869, Raleigh, North Carolina, to parents recently freed from slavery, came to Northampton age 17 through an agency providing southern black women with domestic work in private homes. She was abused in her Northampton household and made her way to Amherst where she worked as a housekeeper in several private homes and purchased her McClellan Street home by 1909. With the Goodwins across the street, she helped found and fund the AME Zion Church, wielding the first shovel to break ground for the church building. In 1912 she married Alexander Anderson, a mason’s tender, who had been boarding next door with his two sisters. She died age 83, having lived in Amherst for 60 years, survived by a son, sister and 7 grandchildren. <br />
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