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Notes Most major archival collections documenting Harry Kroll and his work are divided between institutions. Harry’s surviving book manuscripts are among the Special Collections holdings at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson, Mississippi. The Kroll papers themselves are divided between personal and family correspondence at the University of Tennessee at Martin, and his short-fiction literary manuscripts at the University of Memphis, each of which has duplicates of the other’s holdings. The Jesse Stuart papers represent a special case. A collection of Stuart’s letters is at the University of Louisville and others exist among the papers of individuals to whom he wrote, others are in the holdings of the Jesse Stuart Foundation in Ashland, Kentucky, but the bulk of Stuart’s papers were given by the author to Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. However, in 2008 that institution signed a long-term loan agreement for the Stuart papers with Morehead State University. At the writing of this book the collection is at Morehead, but because title to the collection legally remains with Murray State University, it is cited there in the notes. Chapter 1 • A Poor-Man’s Boy, 1888–1920 1. Unless otherwise cited, biographical data from chapter 1 is taken from I Was a Share-Cropper (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1937), 251–63, 276–302; “Looking Back,” Author and Journalist 32, no. 11 (Nov. 5, 1947): 5–7; Harry Harrison Kroll (hereafter, HHK) to Dear Boys, May 13, 1962, Robert T. Kroll papers, Martin, Tenn. (hereafter cited as RTK Papers). 2. “My Father,” Esquire 5, no. 1 (Jan. 1936): 72; Pedigree Resource File, disk 9, PIN 118299; Twelfth U.S. Census (1900), Dyersburg city, district 16, sheet 4; Natalie Kroll Piske interview by Harry Kroll Jr., ca.1975, transcript in the untitled Robert T. Kroll autobiography, RTK papers. He questions the accuracy of his aunt’s memories. 3. The description quoted is from I Was a Share-Cropper, 64. Being of German extraction, the family thinks that Caroline’s family name, Cripe, may have been spelled Kreipe by earlier generations. Twelfth U.S. Census (1900). 4. Roger E. Sappington, “Church of the Brethren,” Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, ed. Samuel S. Hill (Mercer Univ. Press, 1984), 163–64. Cf. Yearbook of American Churches (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1933). 5. Natalie Piske interview, 3. Her memory seems to be the only record of Jimmy’s birth. In the 1900 census the number of children born to Caroline and the number living are both listed as four. Family tradition lists HHK’s birthplace as near Vincennes, in the toe of Indiana’s boot; a contemporary biography 218 Notes to Pages 4–14 for which Kroll supplied the data specifies the Blackford County location. “Harry Harrison Kroll,” Wilson Library Bulletin 19, no. 5 (Jan. 1945): 308. 6. Soddy to Hatch, n.d., Kroll papers, Martin. 7. J. Wayne Flynt, Poor but Proud: Alabama’s Poor Whites (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1989) charts the changes in some detail; Jacqueline Jones, The Dispossessed: America’s Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 81–89. 8. James M. Neff, Southern Almanac and Hand Book: Containing Valuable Information Concerning the Climate, Soil, and Resources of One of the Best Portions of the Great South (Fruitdale, Ala.: Brethren’s School Company, [1896]); N. R. Baker, The Southern Almanac and Hand Book for the Year 1897 (Fruitdale, Ala.: Brethren’s School Company, 1897); Announcement of the Brethren’s School Company and Catalog of Schools, Third Year, 1897–1898 (Fruitdale, Ala.: Brethren’s School Company [printed: Citronelle, Ala.: Citronelle Call], [1897]), 2–3. The only recorded copies of these brochures exist in the collection of Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pa., and I am grateful to Peter DePuydt for research help. N. R. Baker served as the State Supervisor of Rural Schools after 1911. Alabama Dept. of Education, Annual Report, 1911, 16–17. 9. Share-Cropper, 3–50; Baker, Southern Almanac, 36; Roger E. Sappington, The Brethren in Tennessee and Alabama (privately published, ca. 1988), 85–88. 10 “I Was a Share-Cropper,” manuscript, Univ. of Tennessee Special Collections, Knoxville; Twelfth U.S. Census (1900). 11. Dyer County tax book, 1898 (dist. 4), p. 79; 1899, p. 92; 1900 (noted “over age” in “total taxes” column), microfilm, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. 12. Flynt, Poor But Proud, 192. 13. Share-Cropper, 84; “Good, Solid Work,” Tennessean Magazine (May 1...

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