Harriet Evans Paine

Harriet Evans Paine (c. 1822-1917) ta kasance mai ba da labari na Texas kuma Masanin tarihin baki. An haife ta a matsayin bawa kuma an san ta da "Aunty Harriet".

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haifi Paine a matsayin bawa ga Jim da Rebecca Evans a Tennessee, a kusa da shekara ta 1822.  Swan da Jerusha Hardin ne suka mallake su. Hardins sun bi 'ya'yansu maza zuwa Texas a 1828. A Texas, Paine ita ce "yarinya mai ka'ida," da ke rataye allurai ga mahaifiyar Jerusha. A shekara ta 1834 ta zama bawa a gidan Benjamin Franklin Hardin. Hardin ya zauna a wani shuka a waje da Liberty.

Paine ya shiga cikin Runaway Scrape; kuma a lokacin 1836 da 1837, ya yi wa jami'an Mexico hidima da aka kama a Yaƙin San Jacinto kuma ya zauna a gonar William Hardin.  An ce ta bi da fursunoni da alheri.

A cikin 1839, ta koma tare da iyalin Franklin zuwa Seven Pines, gidan da ke cikin garin Liberty.

Paine yana da 'ya'ya tare da wasu bayi biyu, Henry Rowe da Mr. Green. An kira 'ya'yanta Henry Rowe Jr. da Calvin da Melinda Green. Ba a san abin da ya faru da dukkan 'ya'yanta ba kuma ba a rubuta auren ba, kodayake an lura cewa "ba a yarda ta zauna tare da mijinta ba".  Ta kuma zauna tare da' ya'yanta a bayan babban gidan.

Bayan Juneteenth, 1865, lokacin da aka 'yantar da bayi, Paine ya ci gaba da aiki ga Hardins, mai yiwuwa ya " sanya hannu kan kwangilar 'yanci tare da Franklin Hardin".  Ta yi aiki a Seven Pines har zuwa 1916, lokacin da akwai wuta da ta kusan lalata gidan.  Paine ya ceci wasiƙu da takardu na iyalin Hardin. Paine ya mutu a shekara ta 1917.

Iyalin Hardin sun adana labarinta da tarihin baki kuma an ajiye su a cikin Hardin Collection a Cibiyar Nazarin Yankin Sam Houston.

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