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This is an interview with Jeffries Mead, part of an oral history project entitled "Patchwork of Dependency: The Effects of WWII on Edwards County, Kansas" conducted by the Kinsley Public Library. The project was supported by a Kansas Humanities Council Heritage Grant. Jefferis talks of his family, education, military career, and the home front during WWII.
Creator: Mead, Jefferis Michael
Date: October 30, 2009
Item Number: 227252
Call Number: 2010-176.01
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 227252
Agriculture - Family farming
Agriculture - Implements and machinery - Tractors
Collections - Oral History - Kansas Veterans of World War II - Kinsley Public Library
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Dust Storms
Date - 2000s - 2009
Home and Family - Daily life - Farm chores
Home and Family - Families
Military - Service - Air Force
Military - Wars - Korean War
Military - Wars - World War II
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront - Rationing
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Transcript
Places - Cities and towns - Lewis
Places - Counties - Edwards
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Transcript
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/227252