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Robert W. Ray, 22 years old when recorded in 1939, was a native of Jefferson City in Jefferson County, Tennessee. He probably had six or seven years of formal education and was a truck driver and Joseph Hall's fieldtrip assistant

My name is Robert William Ray, I was born in Breathitt County, Kentucky, I am twenty-two years old, I went to school at Alton Park for three years, I went to school at Tampico, Tennessee, for three years.

[transcripption copyrigh Michael Montgomery and Paul Reed, 2017]