On January 11, 1939 Albert Burks of the Library of Congress interviewed A.L. Reynolds, Sr., and other Negroes, on the subject of American Folklore. A.L. Reynolds was sixty-six-(66) years of age. With regard to his father, Rev. John T. Reynolds, who was raised as a slave on the R.J. Reynolds tobacco plantation, A.L. Reynolds said, "I have been in church work all of my life. Even my father before who was slave used to hold church service from plantation to plantation."