ARMSTRONG, MRS. SARAH (GRAY), fiddler, middle-aged; near Derry, Westmoreland County. See notes in Bayard HCT.
BAYARD, EDWIN STANTON, father of the editor. A recaller of tunes he had formerly heard, mostly from Greene County, and a retailer of traditions about them.
BERKEY, CHARLES, fiddler, under middle age; near Rockwood, Somerset County. BLAIR,
FRANK, fiddler, young man; Sigel, Jefferson County.
BRINK, CHARLES, singer and fiddler, aged 86 in 1948; near Smicksburg, Indiana County. At age 4 or 5, started playing the fiddle, with the instrument laid on a bed.
BRYNER, HENRY ELLSWORTH, fiddler, elderly; reared Connellsville, Fayette County, living in Greene County.
BRYNER, JAMES I., fiddler, aged 56 in 1960; near Dunbar, Fayette County.
CLARK, CHARLES, fiddler, singer, middle-aged; near Broad Ford, Fayette County.
CLARK, SYLVESTER, fiddler, singer, middle-aged; Hundred, Wetzel County, West Virginia. Learned tunes in West Virginia and Greene County, Pennsylvania.
CLEMENTS, J. RUSSELL, fifer, high school teacher; Pittsburgh. Middle-aged. Reared in Indiana County.
CLEVER, GEORGE, fiddler, elderly; Jefferson County.
CONANT, LOUIS F., singer, learned tunes in Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Middleaged, See Appendix.
CONNOLLY, MRS. SARAH CATHERINE (MEIGHEN), singer, penny-whistle player. In 80's. Littleton, West Virginia. Reared Pine Bank, Greene County, Pennsylvania.
COOPER, CURTIS R., fiddler, middle-aged. Elderton, Armstrong County; learned tunes at Rural Valley, same county, a few miles distant.
CORKERY, MRS. ANASTASIA F. (WARREN), singer, below middle-age. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born near Macroom, County Cork, Ireland, where she learned tunes. See Appendix.
CRIBBS, CLOUD, fiddler, age 48, Smicksburg; Indiana County.
DAINS, JAMES T., singer, middle-aged in 1930s; Greene County.
DUNN, THOMAS B., fiddler, elderly; Uniontown, Fayette County. Reared in same county, where he learned fiddling at age 7 and 8, from an old man.
DUNNINGTON, THOMAS F., fiddler, elderly in 1930s; Morgantown, West Virginia. Reared Greene County, Pennsylvania.
EDINGER, HOMER R., fiddler, elderly; Armstrong County.
ELLIOTT, HARRY P., fiddler, fifer, aged 72; Connellsburg, Clarion County.
FILBY, JOHN, fiddler, aged 71 in 1944. Jefferson, Greene County, where born and reared. Member of a musical family; his brother, Charles Filby, having been one of the great fifers of Greene County in his day.
FINNEFROCK, CHARLES, fiddler, aged 79; Knox, Clarion County.
FISHER, GEORGE J., fifer, young man. Confiuence, Somerset County; born and reared in Berlin, same county. Member of Berlin Martial Band, which at one time contained five of the name of Fisher.
FUNK, WELLINGTON L., fiddler, under middle age; western Greene County.
GANIEAR, CHARLES, fifer, young man, banker. Pittsburgh; born Greene County, where he learned tunes from older fifers.
GELNETTE, GLENN, fiddler, middle-aged, Jefferson County.
GILPIN, DAVID P., fiddler, elderly; Connellsville, Fayette County. Reared Dunbar nearby. See note in Bayard HCT.
GRAY, ABRAHAM, fiddler, elderly; Derry, Westmoreland County. Uncle of Mrs. Sarah Armstrong,
GRESSLEY, WILLIAM R., fiddler, elderly, Clearfield County.
GRIMM, LLOYD E., fifer, aged 54; Jefferson, Greene County. Reared about Greensburg, Mt. Pleasant, and Jeannette, Westmoreland County.
GRIMSHAW, BRADLEY E., fiddler, middle-aged; Coudersport, Potter County. Reared in northern New York State, where his tunes were learned. In 1958 had been resident nine years in Pennsylvania.
HALL, BROWN, fiddler, in 50s; near Ohiopyle, Fayette County.
HALL, JOSIAH (Sr), fiddler, elderly; Connellsville, Fayette County.
HALL, LEVI, fiddler, elderly, Connellsville; reared near Ohiopyle, Fayette County. Mediocre player, though boastful of his prowess at contests; but having a headful of tunes.
HALL, SANFORD, fiddler, singer. A young man encountered near Cameron, Marshall County, West Virginia. Itinerant among his kinsfolk in southwest Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia.
HEATH (pro. "Heth"), HAROLD, fiddler, in 50s; near Stony Point, Tioga County.
HOGE, THOMAS J., expert fifer and noter of fife tunes. Elderly when first encountered in 1944. Born and reared about Oak Forest, Greene County, living in Pittsburgh. One of the founding members of the Pittsburgh Pioneers Martial Band.
HORNER, HIRAM CLINTON, master fifer; Monessen, Westmoreland County. Born Hiesterburg, Fayette County. Son, grandson, and great-grandson of fifers, and had fifer uncles. In 1960, 80 years old. Had the greatest expertise and largest repertory of any fifer encountered.
IRELAND, WALTER, fiddler, middle-aged; Oak Forest, Greene County. Left-handed player without reversing string positions.
JOBES, WILEY, fiddler, middle-aged in 1930s; unlettered; itinerant in Greene County and adjacent West Virginia communities.
KESSLER, HARRY, fiddler, middle-aged; Donegal, Westmoreland County.
KING, EDWARD, fiddler, middle-aged in 1930s; near Aleppo, Greene County.
KING, FRANK, fiddler, fifer, under middle age; Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Reared in Latrobe, Westmoreland County.
KIRKPATRICK, JOHN F., fifer, in 80s; north of Indiana, Indiana County.
LLOYD, CLYDE, fifer, middle-aged; near Cherry Tree, Indiana County.
LOSCH, SAMUEL B., fiddler and singer, middle-aged in 1930s. Born and reared in Juniata County. Residing at Fillmore, later in State College, Centre County.
LOWRY, FRANK, fiddler, aged 77 in 1944; Greenbriar, Fayette County. One of a musical family well known in western Fayette County.
MARR, JAMES B., fiddler, aged 93 in 1949. Native of Missouri, visiting in State College, Pennsylvania, when tunes were recorded. See Appendix.
MARTIN, CHARLES NEWTON, fiddler, elderly; near Dunbar, Fayette County.
MARTIN, EMERY, fiddler, elderly; near Dunbar. Brother of Charles N. Martin. Learned tunes from his father and grandfather. See note in Bayard HCT.
MCCULLOUGH, HARMON, fiddler, aged 40; Clymer, Indiana County, reared at Glen Campbell, same county. Nephew of William Gressley.
MCCUNE, GEORGE, fiddler, middle-aged; Indiana County.
MCKIVISON, JAMES, fiddler, middle-aged in 1930s; living at Pine Grove Mills, Centre County.
MEIGHEN, JOHN, singer and fiddler, in 80s in 1930; Wind Ridge (Jacktown), Greene County.
MILLER, FRED H., fiddler, middle-aged; Jefferson County.
MOORE, JOHN C., fiddler, elderly; northern Indiana County.
MORRIS, ISAAC NEWTON, fiddler, middle-aged; Woodruff, Greene County.
MORRIS, JAMES LINDSAY, fiddler, elderly; Ruff Creek, Greene County.
MORRIS, WILLIAM, fiddler, middle-aged; Greene County.
MUNDELL, EDWARD T., fifer, middle-aged; Pierceville, Greene County.
MUNDELL, Guy, fife-tune-whistler, middle-aged; Pierceville, Greene County.
MUSSER, GEORGE, accordion-player; a youth met in 1930s in Centre County.
MUSSER, MRS. MARY ANN, elderly in 1940s; remembered tunes; reared in Baileyville, Centre County.
NEAL, WALTER, fiddler, middle-aged; near Mayport, Armstrong County, where he was raised.
NEAL, WILBUR W., fiddler, elderly; Jefferson County. His paternal ancestors came from "County Curk."
NICHOLSON, JOHN, fiddler, young man; near Ohiopyle; Fayette County.
PALMER, SAMUEL, fifer, middle-aged; born Fayette County. Living in Greene County near Mather, when encountered. Miner.
PARDEE, JOSEPH H., fiddler, in 70s; near Glen Campbell, Indiana County.
PATTERSON, EBEN, fiddler, elderly; Elizabeth, Allegheny County.
PATTERSON, THOMAS SHAFFER, fiddler, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, the Pennsylvania State College, now The Pennsylvania State University. Born and reared at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, where he learned his tunes from his father, Eben Patterson.
PAXTON, MRS. GEORGE, singer, elderly in 1930s; Houston, Washington County.
PHILLIPS, SCOTT, singer, fiddler, fifer; Wetzel County, West Virginia. Reared partly in West Virginia and partly in Greene County. Middle-aged when encountered in 1930s.
PROVANCE, FILLMORE PETER, singer, former fiddler. Reared at Dunbar, Fayette County; living at Point Marion, same county. Middle-aged.
QUEER, HARRY (TINK), fiddler; near Ligonier, Westmoreland County; born Stahlstown, nearby. Aged 50 in early 50s.
REED, D. GEORGE, fiddler, elderly; Pine Grove Mills, Centre County. Partly paralyzed, but "dee- dled" tunes off to collector as he had formerly played them.
ROGERS, DAVID and ROGERS, MRS. MARY ANN (PIERSON) wife of David Rogers. Both elderly; both reared in vicinity of New Freeport, Greene County where they lived; both fiddlers and singers.
SAPP, FRANK, fiddler, singer, middle-aged; Wetzel County, West Virginia.
SHAPE, WILLIAM L., fiddler, elderly; Waynesburg, Greene County.
SIMMONS, LORIN P., fiddler in 40s; Cambridge, Massachusetts; reared Prince Edward's Island, where tunes were learned. See Appendix.
SMALLEY, DONALD A., fiddler, Professor of English, Indiana and Northwestern Universities. Native of northern Indiana, where he learned his tunes from his father, also a fiddler. See Appendix.
SMALLEY, JAMES D., fiddler, middle-aged; Donora, Washington County. Born and reared in mountains "behind Greensburg," Westmoreland County, where he learned his tunes-many of them from his father, also a fiddler and fifer.
SMITLEY, ADAM, fiddler, elderly; Fayette County. One of a musical family.
STANFORD, THOMAS, Irish fiddler, elderly; Pittsburgh. Learned tunes as performed by players at Hibernian socials in Kennywood Park.
ST. CLAIR, FRANK H., fifer, aged 80; near Davistown, Greene County.
STEAR, ALBERT, fiddler, middle-aged; Rural Valley, Armstrong County.
STROSNIDER, GEORGE G., fiddler, aged 69 in 1928; near Waynesburg, Greene County.
SUTTON, JAMES T., publisher, Waynesburg, Greene County. Cousin of the editor. Recalled fife tunes and fifing lore.
TAYLOR, JAMES B., fiddler, fifer, middle-aged; Spraggtown, Greene County. Born near Wileyville, Wetzel County, West Virginia.
TAYLOR, JOHN M., fiddler, middle-aged; central Greene County.
THOMAS, AMASIAH C., fiddler, elderly; Jefferson County.
THOMAS, FRANK, fiddler, elderly; near Somerset, Somerset County. Blacksmith.
TUSTIN, JOHN L., fiddler, middle-aged in 1944; Rogersville, Greene County.
WAUGH, HARRY, fiddler, elderly; Jefferson County.
WEIMER, OTHO L., fiddler, middle-aged; near Uniontown, Fayette County.
WHITE, HIRAM H., fiddler, singer, aged 69 in 1928. Born Spraggtown, living near Waynesburg, Greene County.
WHITE, JOHN, fiddler, middle-aged; Spraggtown, Greene County. Brother of Hiram H. White.
WILTROUT, SAMUEL A. (BERT), fifer, middle-aged; South Connellsville, Fayette County. Reared in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties.
WINGROVE, HARRY W., fiddler, middle-aged; near Oremines, Westmoreland County. Member of a singing and playing family.
WOLFORD, JOHN WESTLEY, fiddler, singer, aged 83 in 1944; living at Mount Braddock, Fayette County. Reared in that vicinity.
WORK, EDGAR, fiddler, middle-aged; Indiana County.
WRIGHT, WILLIAM, fiddler, singer, middle-aged; living in Marshall County, West Virginia. Born and raised in Greene County.
YAUGHER, IRVIN, JR., fiddler; Mount Independence, Fayette County. Born in "Yaugher Holler," nearby. Middle-aged when first encountered in 1943. See note in Bayard HCT.
YEAGER, HENRY W., fiddler, singer, middle-aged; Moshannon, Centre County.
YODERS, MARION M., fifer and fiddler, middle-aged; reared Rices Landing, Greene County. Learned many tunes from his father and grandfather, both fifers, and from other local players. Miner. Was accustomed to play for local dances in Rices Landing, Jefferson, and Carmichaels, in eastern Greene County.