To this day I have never met anybody else names Yarnell, white or black.

NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

Yarnell and his family lived just below us on some land he rented from the bank.

NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

Yarnell was a good man, thrifty and industrious, and he later became a prosperous house painted in Memphis, Tennessee.

NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

Before Papa left for Fort Smith he arranged for a colored man named Yarnell Poindexter to feed the stock and look in on Mama and us every day.

NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

Chances are hampered by unavailability of longtime partner, Yarnell.

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