562 MCCOOL DO 359.04 FMY 85 2B: b. McCool, now lives in Kosciusko. Hw.; Methodist; 10th gr. Family historian. Travel in Calif., Colo., Tex. Mother: b. near McCool; little education; hw. MGP: Ca.; less than 8th gr.; farmer and hw. Father: b. near McCool; little education; farmer. PGP: Stone Mountain, Ca.; less than 8th gr.; farmer and hw. Husband: d.; mercantile business, sawmilling, livestock trading; Methodist; elementary school. Remarkably broad range of knowledge through reading and travel. Relaxed and comfortable with old-fashioned folk forms. Mixture of South Midland and Upcountry Lower Southern lexical and phonological forms. A fine example of a rural, elderly IIB. MB/80:LP/80 8 hr.