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Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 10, Number 2, November 1982

Description: The newsletter of the Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas contains information related to the activities of the society and its members as well as genealogical notes and history for the Dallas County, Texas and surrounding areas. Index starts on page 43.
Date: November 1982
Creator: Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas
Partner: Carrollton Public Library

Oral History Interview with Ernest Griffith, November 4, 1982

Description: Interview with Ernest Griffith, owner and operator of Griffith's Independent Ginner. The interview includes Griffith's personal experiences about education in Texola, Oklahoma, part-time employment as cotton picker, and being involved in building cotton gins and operating drug stores. Griffith also talks about his family background, the operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin, buying cotton and retaining cotton seed, variations in cotton prices, sale of coal to farmers, buying grain for Kimb… more
Date: November 4, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Griffith, Ernest
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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