• Age: 73
• Interview Date: 11/11/1980
• Interviewer: Shirley Marshall, University of Illinois at Springfield
• Interview Length: 245 minutes Sit Down Interview
• County: Sangamon
• James Ray (Bud) Nuckols was born in 1903 in Glasgow, Kentucky. Bud grew up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky and recounts living most of his life in Auburn, Illinois, including teaching, World War II, rural electrification and government policies.

Mr. and Mrs. Bud Nuckols