Skip to Content Skip to Navigation

Gray Herndon

Gray Herndon

Age: 87
Interview Date: February 1972
Interviewer: Bobbe Herndon, University of Illinois at Springfield
Interview Length: 655 minutes Sit Down Interview
County: Sangamon
Gray Herndon was born in New City, Illinois in 1885. Raised on a farm, Gray talks about farming, rural life, and law practices through the Great Depression.

Edit:

80s

BioID: 53

County: Sangamon

Gender: Male

Interview Decade: 1970s

Transcript:

application/pdf icon

HerndonGray_1.pdf

application/pdf icon

HerndonGray_2.pdf

Image Gallery:

Interview

File Label: UIS Collection H-I, Segment 3

SEGMENT: LIVESTOCK, FARM BUSINESS, & CHILDHOOD WORK: Audio duration 12:44

Corn to the Hogs & Hogs to Market: duration 00:42

SEGMENT: FARMING METHODS & LAND: Audio duration 08:37

Hired Man from Kentucky Every Year: duration 01:09

SEGMENT: FARMING METHODS & FARM EQUIPMENT: Audio duration 09:45

The Binding Machine: duration 01:43

Cutting, Sweeping, Grabbing, & Bundling: duration 02:11

SEGMENT: FARMING METHODS: Audio duration 10:15

The Threshing Machine: duration 01:27

SEGMENT: FARMING METHODS: Audio duration 11:32

File Label: UIS Collection H-I, Segment 4

SEGMENT: FARMING METHODS & FOOD & MEALS: Audio duration 07:13

SEGMENT: LAND, HEALTH, & PESTS: Audio duration 14:09

Settle by the Timber for Timber: duration 00:44

Flat Prairie Required Special Plow: duration 01:14

Deer Flies Draw Blood: duration 01:20

SEGMENT: HAZARDS & DRAINAGE: Audio duration 09:26

SEGMENT: FARM FACILITIES: Audio duration 12:08

Principles of Tiling a Field: duration 00:56

SEGMENT: LAND, CONSERVATION, & CROPS: Audio duration 11:22

Timber Soil Erodes: duration 00:45

Grass Waterway Prevents Erosion: duration 01:28

SEGMENT: FARM FACILITIES: Audio duration 07:59

Growing an Osage Orange Hedge Fence: duration 02:44

File Label: UIS Collection H-I, Segment 5

SEGMENT: FARM FACILITIES: Audio duration 07:20

File Label: UIS Collection H-I, Segment 7

SEGMENT: inaudible: Audio duration 44:56

SEGMENT: GREAT DEPRESSION: Audio duration 17:36

Hoover Thought Depression Would Be Over in 90 Days: duration 00:46

SEGMENT: FARMING DURING GREAT DEPRESSION & CHILDHOOD ACTIVITIES: Audio duration 16:00

"Pay your note!" Says the Receiver: duration 01:51

Why Banks Had No Money: duration 01:04