Personal History of Informant
1. Ancestry—Father, Lewis Mitchell; Mother, Rhoda Mitchell
2. Place and date of birth—Oak Log Bayou, White River, near Arkansas Post, Ark.
3. Family—Wife and one grown son.
4. Places lived in, with dates—Taken to Texas by his young master and sold in Marshall during the war. Lived in Tyler, Texas until forty-eight years of age; came back to Arkansas in 1897 and stayed until 1922; went to Chicago and lived until 1930; back to Jefferson County, Arkansas.
5. Education, with dates—Two days after twenty-one years of age. No date.
6. Occupations and accomplishments, with dates—Farmer, preacher, common carpenter, cobbler, public work on streets in Chicago, farmed and preached until he went to Chicago in 1922. The he worked in the maintenance department of city streets of Chicago and of Lincoln Park, Chicago.
7. Special skills and interests—Asphalt worker
8. Community and religious activities—Licensed Methodist Preacher. No assignment now.
9. Description of informant—Five feet eight inches tall; weight, 165 pounds, nearly bald. Very prominent cheek bones. Keen intelligence. Neatly dressed.