What year was Tempe Herndon Durham born?

In 1937, Travis Jordan interviewed Tempe Herndon Durham in Durham, N.C. for the Works Progress Administration slave narrative project. She recollects, "I was thirty-one years ole when de surrender come." It appears, then, that she was 31 years old in April 1865. She might have been referring to the April 9, 1865 surrender at Appomattox or the later April dates when General Johnston surrendered to General Sherman at Bennett Place, a Civil War site that was only a few miles from her home. This would mean that she was born in approximately 1834.

To see Tempe Herndon Durham's recollections of slavery go to the University of Virginia on-line collection called American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

Tempe Durham's recollections of her experience of slavery can be found at this link:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/wpa/durham1.html