678 BAY FA 435.01 MMY 68 1B: b. Bay. Mayor, furniture finisher, logger, farmer; Methodist; 8th gr. Worked in Memphis 3 yr., lived in Trumann 10 yr. Mother: b. Lowry City, Mo.; 4th gr.; hw. MGP: Lowry City, Mo.; Dutch and Scottish ancestry. Father: b. Johnson City, Tenn.; 3rd gr.; farm and timber work. PGP: Lowry City, Mo.; Irish ancestry. First wife: b. West Tenn. Second wife: b. Bald Knob, Ark. A splendid, talkative, and uninhibited folk speaker. Widely traveled. Considerable conversational information. Clearly a South Midland dialect, although some Delta features are observed by the informant himself. MMc/75:LP/78 7 hr.