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APR 1 7 1937
Redfield Georgia B. 4/16/37 700 words
May Corn Marley.
"I am May, the second daughter of my father's marriage to
Julia MoVicker. I was married to Ot.A4 Marley March 4, 1906. Ve
have a son and had a daughter Inez who died two years ago.
"There has been much discussion about who set out the
trees on oswell's old land-mark and place of interest -Lover's
Lane -about five miles south-east of Roswell. I know who set
them out and who cared for them for many years, and it should
be written now as one of the important subjects to be preserved
in the records of Chaves County.
"Soon after my father settled on the old home site of the
Corn family south of Lover's Lane John Chisum came to him
one day and stid 'Corn I'll make you a proposition if you set
out trees here along this ditch I'll get the trees. We need
trees, lots of em on these hot dry prairies/.
"My father said he would plant them and care for them
so Chisum sent two exwagons to Alpine Texas in the Davis Moun-
tains and got the cottonwood and willow trees. My father set
them out and he my sister Mary and the old darky we called "Nigger
Dick" whom every one knew, would watch trim those trees
and set the trimmings out. They grew fast and soon made the
beautiful lane which has been a favorite drive for young
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people, ,:especially lovers, for nearly sixty years.
Oregon Bell set some of the trees out on his land on the north
side of the la*
"J.P. White told me just before he died that every time
he started to drive cattle through that lane my father would
say -be sure to keep the cattle from destroying any of those
trees VhitAlls White said he would always promlie to watch
them and all of the thousands of cattle he drove through the
lane, not one ever touched those trees that my father and
John Chisum loved and tended so carefully.
When my father and family came to New Mexico they brougbt
three or four hundred head of cattle and a hundred head of
horses -Ire loved horses. He raised the horse that Billy the Kid
made his escape on, when he broke jail in Lincoln after killing
Brady. It was a black horse. Pat Garrett bought him from my father
and named him "Black Marto after my father.
My father loved his Eden Valley Ranch home, where he died
and is buried.
All of his sons like ranch life and have ranch homes
scattered overall south-east New Mexico.
I am like all the rest of the Corn children, prefer my
ranch home and only aaae for short visits to this nice home you
see here in Roswell.
Given In Interview 4/16/37
By May Corn Marley- (daughter °Mart° V. Corn)
102 N. Kentucky Ave. Roswell
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