[C] [HW: J. C. Corbin appointed state superintendent of public instruction in 1873—served until the end of 1875.]
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed: Ellis Jefson (M. E. Preacher),
Hazen, Ark.
Age: 77
"My father was a full blood African. His parents come from there and he couldn't talk plain.
"My great grandma was an Indian squaw. Mother was crossed with a white man. He was a Scotchman.
"My mother belong to old man John Marshall. He died before I left Virginia.
"Old Miss Nancy Marshall and the boys and their wives, three of em was married, and slaves set out in three covered wagons and come to Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1867.
"Blunt Marshall was a Baptist preacher. In 1869 my grandma died at Holly Springs.
"I had two sisters Ann and Mariah. Old Miss Nancy Marshall had kin folks at Marshall, Texas. She took Ann with her and I have never seen her since.