SALLY MALENA BERRY, was the daughter of Wiley p.
and Ida Ann Wilson Berry
January 7,2008
Sally Malena Berry was born July 20,
1908. She
was known as Malena to all of her family. 
The grade School was located very close to her home and was known as
Meridith School. Later she went to
Caldwell school and then she went to High School in Hillsborough NC.
She graduated from Hillsborough High Scool on May 4th 1928.
Clyde was living with his sister and her husband in Hillsborough.
Click on the small image to view Her High
School Deploma
Clyde's brother in law was a Baptist minister and the paster of the
Baptist Church in Hillsborough. Malena met Jessie Clyde Henderson and
dated him in High School and through the summer of 1928.
Thirteen years
to the day of her graduation from High School on May 4th 1941 her
mother was hit and killed by an automobile.
The picture on the right is of Harold, Malena, and
Woodrow Berry .
Harold Berry is on Malena's left and this picture must have been taken
about 1915/1916 because Woodrow was born on April 3rd 1912 and Harold
was born on March 9th 1914.
The picture on the left above is the first home Clyde and Malena built.
On September 22nd 1928
Sally Malena Berry married Jessie Clyde Henderson who was born in
Gaffnee South
Carolina on September 19, 1905. His Parents were William Jackson and
Mary Jane Horne Henderson 
After they were married they moved to Raleigh North
Carolina
where they lived
for a while with Clyde's Sister and her husband.
This was right in the start of the great depression. Clyde landed a job
as caretaker of the Barrow Farm just West of the N C State fairgrounds
near Raleigh. They had everything furnished and $50 a month salery.
Clyde and Malena Henderson had two children born while living on the
Barrow farm. The House on the Barrow Farm was Built by Dr. Merdith the
founder of Meridith College in Raleigh. 
It served as a hospital during the Civil War. It was built out of heart
pine and there was not a nail
in the house. It was built with pegs.
Clyde and Malena moved from
the Barrow farm in 1936 and in 1938 they built their
first home.
Click On the 1948 English Ford on the right to VIEW a larger image. This was Clyde and Malena's first new Car.
Jessie Clyde and Sally Malena Henderson lived a very interesting and varied life. Clyde Henderson worked as Caretaker of the Barrow Farm, Refidgerator Repairman for a local Dairy, Large appliance repairman for a major retail company, Carpenter, Self contacted seven houses, Caretake of a Girlscout Camp, Caretake for a private family estate. Malena could manage money better than almost anyone I have ever known. Jessie Clyde Henderson died in Forsyth County NC on June 11th 1984. Malena lived another 18 years and died in Wake County on March 19th 2002. She lived by herself up until the last 15 months of her life and managed her own affairs. She would have been 94 years old if she had lived three more months.
CHILDREN :
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Benjamin Berry Henderson
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Living Female
