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FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
NAME OF WORKER Ruby loam ADDRESS L a itif Frant N. putts
DATE Jon. Is. mg SUBJECT Femme
1.
Name and address of informant
2. Date and time of interview
3. Place of interview
4. Name and address
informant
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
!4,44, Bel' .qttioon or ilatinon
E 10 A:. Platte. Nebr.
Jear IC 1$300.4
of pAln?fi'irq,'drga '10,fon
w p you in touch with
6. Description of room, hcuse, surroundings, etc.
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F0131 B
iveassalilistery
!WE OF it),K Ruby E. Uilson ADORESS 4 -71 q Fr-nt
DATE
NILEA ADjaESS OF INFOZ: -re. Sell 1-..attisoa• E.' 10 Platte, Nebr.
SUBJECT Folklore
1. Amoostry
3. Place sod date of birth 40 '64
3. Family Twioe married 3 Waldron born Filmore Co., and 3 in Frontier
Co., only raised 2 ohildren
4. Place and date of birth
E. Edueation, with dates
S. Ooounationo and asosaplishmonts, with dates 0, Perm a laboring woman
7. Special skills and interests 0* Pesos to have he4 no time for suSh
developmont.
8. Ccvanity and religious a3tivitios 0. very ligitod but enjoys old
friends has lived 50 years or more as noighbor to rood family.
9 iAreoription cf informant Smell worn out looking trensparent big-
knuokled heads were idle while she rested.
10. Other points painted in interview
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Text of Interview (Unedited)
ITAII OF 7TORICER..ytatlegi oinieen
DATE..jan4.28 gUBJECT Folklore
ADDRESS 112-w; Mot
Hip Platt*, 14br
71.2-13-172 AND ADDPESS OFT.770711•2:ET• item' Nal stitttioye ot•gatteett•
It was •,)retty toudh in thaw tizes. e ougio to F 1L,:ore Co. 'GO.
::.other had died and uy rotor had remarried. We howl an awful hard
time.
e never had sdhc,a1 for don't kiiMbasit loos then we had 3 tio.
3 mi. away. we had a s2ellinl book, never had no reader or rittymetie1
just s. ohm and me walked 3 mi. a yak,- walk. I fross rxy finders end
froze r7 toes and I'm tellin, you the truth I novas hod a pair of
Ohmic on my feet for 3 years, winter, nor sumer. My, dress one eumr;ber
woo rade out of an umbrella and it was the only thing I had to wear,
therewainft a thread for undershirt or !Ambles or another stit0h.
.41 had oorn meal one year, o rn s1 ravy, corn meal 2orrldge,
acorn sal A.xad with soda and water and baked corn weal roasted boiled
for coffee and it ens that wu,- about a year there just 'snout a sck
of anythinc to eat unlecc !t was a blc old jaok rabbit.
I over butted oaAdy until I -was about 14 or pretty near1r grown.
it was sttok (mak
i had a corn obb doll, a corn Qob with a rag wrapped around it.
we never Went nowbra„ alwa44 stayed at hams. uur Agooet onjoyuent
mat 7,0 set out OU the rairie and hold to a ro-Ao on the old *ow so
she could eat.
:4 father mowed to Seandy„ sans., mhen my atepnother took sick
and died. Father had piloved up on his homostead and mortgaged it and
the mortgage took it.
I went book to rilmore Co. to work. I made ay own way from about
tho tie y at.? mother died whorl Iawas 130
1 .:ot to going with a follow after i went boa to Ii1i4r Co., that
1 mot at a danee hall and we Imre :A:vied in 'l sad went to farming.
ie oame to Proatier Co. and took a homestead in '83, It VOA better
settled than When ay folks oame to Panora Co., a fanny on ovary
quarter it seemed like. lie had good step* and rot *long good but
didn't rake nothinr only a good living, only loft Frontier Co, 11
years ago, we weft there a to time, ifs eane bask to N. ?lats. In W.
an I've aeon hop or so thick on tbe ground that you could
scoop thom up with a scoop shovel.
'hen wo put in wheat in Filmoro Qo. we tied brush together to use
for a harrow to color the wheat with, any way to got along. I can
eaoy old dad yet with a cook on his beg& sowing *oat. broadcast.
Put 12 ponnios in a oup of vinegar let it stand 24 hours and
wash your hands in it to heal that emdemno
Usk", Nom, save too and put in a chunk th siva of a cherry for
a gargle. i've cured drytheriawith it.