Scott Mitchell (abt. 1855 - 1938)

Born about 1855 in Christian, Kentucky, United States

Died 14 Mar 1938 at about age 83 in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Scott Mitchell is a part of US Black heritage.

Scott was born into slavery, owned by Captain Hester of Christian County, Kentucky. He tells the story of his life in an interview with Margaret Bishop conducted about 1936 in Breathitt County as part of the Slave Narratives project.^[1]

Mitchell recalls being traded in 1861 along with sister before Captain Hester removed to Mississippi. At the age of twenty, he married and began working in coal mines. "I worked at Jenkins. I worked right here at the Davis, the R.T. Davis coal mine, an at the Bailey mine; that wuz a-fore Mistuh Bailey died."

When Mitchell worked for Davis, he was provided a house. He says he liked Mr. Davis, and was sorry when he died.

Sources

1. ↑ Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 7, Kentucky, Bogie-Woods with combined interviews of others. 1936. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn070/.

• https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.070/?sp=81
• "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSW8-JJ7 : 2 March 2021), Scott Mitchell, 1938; citing Death, Breathitt, Kentucky, United States, certificate , Office of Vital Statistics, Frankfort; FHL microfilm 1,913,343.
• http://coaleducation.org/coalhistory/coaltowns/coalcamps/breathitt_county.htm