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hy father 3.0.Wisglas, mother and four obildron, two girls
sod two boys, and Wed Taylor, wife and two Waldron* lift Weerees..
hero, Tonnesseo, in September 18$6, for Orapsigne, Toms, twelve
miles north of Dallas. They chartered a railroad emigrant train
emesisting of a south sad several her can. The We twill** UV,
id to the Gooch which had a Gook stove and pieces for le to *Uwe.
They furnished the wood for the coot et410,4, Our Mowing top
two span of mules, game chickens and some blood hosed peps wote
the bar oars Nod Taylor was a reboot teasher in Tennesimo and was
going to arapovine to locals as his brother OW thaler livedtthese
end owned a big stook farm. When we arrived In Dallas it was rate..
legs We bad to oroas the Trinity swaup and it was four silos sew
roes it. We were in wagons drawn by tour largo mass and it wet
all they could do to pull us through the Swamp. We west to Sse
fsnor's fare where we saw our first cotton and silt binding reap*
or cuttiag wheat and our first jack rabbits, *ailed nolo eared
rabbits, in theme days. We lived to Grapevine for tee year* ,It.
father ran a stations?)' engin* for a cotton gin. We children at.
tondod ambles/10ton sobool 'tile in Orapoviae. We left that. in
Ocverod wagons for Wolaborford, Texas, when Fitter farmed for
two years. IS sold this farm and we went to Dusk Creek, 'Arty
miles north of °marine. Testis. While here rather worked as a
sweater, building bridges for a. Railroad CoPotrwittos 0•100/07•
4lig Nola woo butlttag a aini railroad fres ilroostillo Is lallas•
It slossed the Santa rs Railroad at Dunk Oreek• The Seats Ye
ran mortis and south ami the :my Gould road ran east and west.
We lived here eix months and while father was wartime in the
sonetruntien oamp they bed an epidemlo of Grippe and Iwo or the
workmen died. Mhos was ens of the men **looted to sit with
the bodies of these men who were laid out in a tent.
The amp was composed of teats for the laborer* and they
were very close together. *bile sitting up with ttese bodies
litter heard some one is the next tent 'meet of GUM* W.
scats, who was my mother.* brother, whom Ow Ma net heard trite
in twenty years. rather went is to the teat and asked who in
the: knew Charlie Sefaoats. A. man by the name of Red DM
said that he knew his and that he was living in esing,
Father came home the next day and told mother what be
had beard, she wrote him a letter but did not bear from Um.
In the meantime me moved to ante. Texas, where MU,
farmed and we ohildren went to a subtoriD,10* 114010111, We bit
Duet Creek in a savored wagon drawn by two of the mules that
we hod left Tennessee with. We had eel4 evorrthisilmtow0 Us
mules and wages. We seeped out in the open at night. POW,
and the two boys did the sooting aver the low firs as mother
was silk and ratter was ahead we girls would eatob our dregs.
es on fire as we were rather young. we used wood for tool as we
were traveling through a densely wooded oountry. Mother bed us
lay the table cloth an the ground and lay stones on the corners
I. keep it from blowing away. We lived to lots two years. While
la Saida seassato teitt ay Palm *bat listbei$s lOtetbsso
Obastitt 31Ofeeats, was Wring on a ham sixty alias *NMI Of sods.
VO est in tomMb with his and be was getting ready to go -beet to
New Walee as be liked that oftetry very much. Re sold out and
went to Little Creek, Mew Mamie,, taking few bead of oattle and
some basses with his. Me wrote best and told Mother about its
beentitel and healthy sown and wanted us to owes on wet as be
bee a *Laos picked out for us. Father began at moo to trite loll
his tan but it took sometime to dispose of it. In the asaattas wa
homed Oasts* of the /adieu etill being on the **rent)/ in
WO *Wee, and Mother was afraid to make the trip.
le started for Jew aisle. torn 10, 18910 leaving Bowie,
Teems, in a **verse wagon drawn by two horses. Father had hired a
mai to take us to New Mesioo but when we get to Plainview, Terse,
he deolded that be did not want to go on so be turned bask end
Witus there. Father VAIN determined to go on so be borrewed
saddle borne from the Lang S outfit, which was a big oattle eon.
paw owned by the Slaughter Brothers. He rode his horse to the
next side vamp and there got another bores and rods on to the
next camp. Me did this until be ?seabed Roswell, low Meal**.
Thee* side.emeps were about thirty or forty miles apart, *sob hay.1
isle sod shook, windmill and watiring tanks, with one cowboy in
ebarge to look after the windmills and the immense horde of oat.
tin that would water there.
Father hired an old freighter in Baum to some to Plain-
view after es. We were living in sod boas* that rather bad
Witt fir we before he left Plainview* To Wild this been be
had dug dews is the ground shout 912 feet, gelling this up
with beards to the level if the grafted, this building up with
sod bleste(Mbout the rise of a large adobe) ant treatise
ground shore there was grass prowls,* We bad two wisdom it
the shask sad it had a sod reef. WO lived in this bases about
two weeks sad this rather came from %melt with the freight.
ar for us* We traveled ia a earned wages and **aped out* We
bed to use *ow ehips for fuel es this last lap et our joursey*
The old freighter showed us how to eat inseam like they did
is the west, whist* was to help your plates free the dateh
evens and pets* Our first stop after leaving Plaisview was the
Lenge oattle remake, where we sew our Met white fees' Were.
ford Cattle* The cowboys were burning eow *hips for feel end
ay brother and I were so embarrassed when we ems thee put them
In the stove. The next stop wee at aXITside samp and the
*whey there entertained us by singing (weber sifts whisk we
children thought were the grandest songs that we had ever
beard* On our third day out we were approaehing Fort gunner,
and saw our first view of the Capita* Mountains by field glass.
es. We camped out in the open in the X T pasture. The ante.
lope were so nmaerous in this pasture that the young ones came
up to our Gasp. The men folks killed one sad *cooked some in a
dutch oven for our supper that night. The rest of the fresh
aest that ve had on this trip was given us by the ofrOboys at
the side *amps. We eroseed the Pecos River just above Rossell,
wide& was net a very big ton at that tine. WO twirled north and
traveled up the Rondo River and eloped that sight Nat below
Piespho. The only exeitisent that night was the howling of the
oeyOtes and wolves. We ease on up the Rondo Willey through
Tolman sad on to little Creak1 where we found a new two room..
ad leg °tibia in a beautiful pipe grove sweltlag us. Our hearte
were tilled with delight at em r new hoes. This was in Way 1691.
Two day, altar our arrival a beautiful, sure fell on the pins
trees.
We had left Tennessee on seems* if uy notherte health
arid that te the mum we lingered along as we 414. Rather vas
very week afraid of the Indians in Sew Wexies. Oerentue was
still en the war path.
NARRATORI lira, Anna Drexel, Oarrtneae, W.V. Aged 64 roars.