Parris, Kenneth
unknown – unknown
- Name variants
- —
- Record count
- 2
- Sources
- life_events
- Places seen
- Dexter, MO; Dexter, Missouri (Stoddard County)
- First event date
- 1977-10-24
- Last event date
- 1977-12-07
Timeline — 2 events
- 1977-10-24 Kenneth Parris and L. T. Busby joined the DeKalb Yieldmasters Club for producing 183.72 bushels of corn per acre (yield verified by Harry Busby, First State Bank of Dexter). Parris farms all his life, operates the 'Old Walnut Lane Farm' east of Dexter with the help of Busby, the landowner; his father Robert Parris farmed the family farm. Parris and his wife have two children: Eric, 11, and Jessica, age 9 months. Record from a DeKalb X-72b test field.
- 1977-12-07 Named to the Dexter American Agriculture Farm Strike Movement steering committee at the Dec 6 meeting in Dexter Senior High cafeteria (120+ farmers present); committee to open a Dexter strike office.
Dates and spellings are preserved as found in the source records; contradictions are kept, not smoothed over. See the methodology for how this archive handles uncertainty.