757 LAKE PROVIDENCE FQ 507.02 MMY 55 2B: b. Mo.; came to Lake Providence as an infant. Cotton gin operator, police juror; Baptist; h.s. graduate. Two yr. army. Six mo. in Tampico, Mexico. Sharecropping and roadwork. Mother: b. E. Carroll Par.: 5th gr.; hw. MGP: probably local; Scotch-Irish ancestry. Father: b. Miss.; little education; railroad worker. PGP: Miss.; Irish ancestry. Wife: b. W. Carroll Par.; 56; telephone company worker; Baptist; 7th gr.; mother's family from N.C., father's family from Miss. A talkative Type II with good awareness of differences in usage and dialects. Transition area idiolect, combining features of Upcountry and Lower Southern. BR/75:LP/78 5 hr. 5 min.