Avellar G. Hansley 

I moved up here to make more money. Down there in North Carolina the only way for a woman to make decent money was to clean houses or work in the turkey factory which was only open in the summer months.

My children and I were living in the projects on Myrtle Ave for nine years. In 1967, I bought a house on Linden Street and we moved there.

Eddie Murphy, his Brother and his Mother, Lilian Lynch, moved into my house as tenants in 1967. Eddie was a house boy. He liked to stay in the house more than outside. He had his reasons: He was reading books and practicing his jokes.

July 29th 1977: I lived on Linden Street, it was the 2nd house from the factory. The factory was burnin’ down. They had to rip the walls all the way down because they were all burnt. They sprayed my house so it wouldn’t catch on fire. The house next to me had a lot of damage. The roof caved in.