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1. Name and address of informant--J.H. Curry, Washington, Arkansas
2. Date and time of interview--
3. Place of interview--Washington, Arkansas
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with
informant--
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you--
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
Personal History of Informant
1. Ancestry--father, Washington Curry; mother, Eliza Douglass;
grandmother; Malinda Evans; grandfather, Mike Evans.
2. Place and date of birth--Born in Haywood County, Tennessee in 1862.
3. Family--
4. Places lived in, with dates--Tennessee until 1883. From 1883 until
now, in Arkansas.
5. Education, with dates--He took a four-years' course at Haywood after
the war.
6. Occupations and accomplishments, with dates--Minister
7. Special skills and interest--Church work.
8. Community and religious activities--Preacher
9. Description of informant--
10. Other points gained in interview--His father was a slave and he
tells lots of slavery.
[HW: Master Educates Slave]
Text of Interview (Unedited)
"I was born in 1862, September first. I got that off the Bible. My
father, he belonged to a doctor and the doctor, he was a kind of a wait
man to him.
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