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Form A
Federal Writers' Project
Circumstances of Interview Works Progress Administration
OREGON FOLKLORE STUDIES
Name of worker Sara B. Wrenn Date December 12, 1938
Address
505 Elks Building, Portland, Oregon
Subject Social Life
Name and address of informant
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Cor. Oak Cornell. Oswego, Oregon
Date and time of interview Deo. 7, 19:38 lIZO to 51Jaa r.-.
Place of interview
Hoze.,_Above address
Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant
1.1. MID .1•1
Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
none
Description of room, house, surroundings, etc. Comfortable two-story house,
attractively furnished. The usual suburban garden, with shrubs and flowers,
looking as Oregon greens do in the month of December somewhat barren.
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and the number to which the material refers).
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Form B Federal Writers' Project
Personal History of Informant Works P1 -ogress Adninistration
OREGON FOLKLDRE STUDIES
Name of worker Sara B. Wrenn Date December 12, 1938
Address 505 Elks Building, Oregon
Subject Social Life
Name and address of informant Mrs. Margaret Weizhtman
Cor. Oak Cornell, Oswego, Oregon
Information obtained should supply the following facts:
1. Ancestry G. Occupations and accomplishments with dates
2. Place and date of birth 7. Special skills and interests
3. Family 8. Community and religious activities
4. Places lived in, with dates 9. Description of informant
5. Education, with dates 10. Other points gained in interview
1. Irish.
2. Oswego, Oregon August 29, 1884.
3. Father, Wm. Stock Halliman, b. Dublin, Ireland; Mother, Katherine Margaret
DeLashmutt, b. Burlington, Iowa.
4. Oswego, 1884-1908; Seattle, 1908-1913; Spokane, 1913-1916; Oswego,
1916-1918; San Francisco, 1918-1929, Oswego, 1929 and since.
5. Public schools including high school, 1896-1906, Business College, 1908.
6. Millinery saleswoman, 1912-1926; Music off and on, piano.
7. Dancing.
8, Christian Science. All civic activities.
9. Medium height and weight; faded blonde, with gray hair, well dressed and
quite attractive.
10. Very cooperative in every way. While informant was under 65, the inter-
view seemed worthwhile because of the information given concerning her
mother and father of earlier days. Mother born in 1847, died May 16, 1937.
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and the number to which the material refers).
Form C Federal Writers' Project
Text of Interview (Unedited) Works Progress Administration
OREGON FOLKLORE STUDIES
Name of worker
Address
Subject
Sara B. Wrenn
Date December 12. 1938
505 Elks Bldg.. Pertland. Oregon
Social Life
Name and address of informant Mrs. Margaret Woightman
Text:
Cor. Oak Cornell, Oswego. Oregon
My mother, who was entering her 91st year when she died last year, spent
the last six years of her life in bed, the result of a fractured hip. She had
always been very active, and took a keen interest in everything right up to her
death. The night before breaking her hip she was dancing waltzing with my
daughter. She was always very fond of dancing, as were all of our family and
relatives. Mother was very musical, both instrumental and vocal. Whenever there
was a crowd of young people in the house she would play for the rest of us to sing.
Her favorite song was "Old Lamg Syne". I think that was because we could all sing
it together. Another of her awn favorites was Rook Me to Sleep, Mother. She used
to say her mother sang that to her. There were six of us children, but only three
are left. MY brother Leonard was named for J.D. (I think are the initials) Leonard.
Anyway he was the man who at one time was interested in the old White House and
race course that used to be at Riverside. As I recall this man Leonard VISA also
interested in the old Oswego smelter, and father worked there. for six years.
That old brawn majolica pitoher over there it holds a gallon we used to
carry dawn to the men full of milk. And did they lap it up on a hot day!
Mother taught the first Sunday School in Oswego. She gathered in the
children ether house, and played the melodeon for them. I have the melodeon still.
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Form C Cont'd.
Mother was a Methodist. One of her Sunday School pupils was Belle Trullinger, who
afterwards narried Governor Geer. She was his second wife. Mother used to tell
a story of how Belle's mother bought her a little fringed parasol, and the very
first Sunday she had it here she came, carrying her parasol with a great air and
her little face and hands were as dirty as they could be. She couldn't wait and
ran off from home before getting cleaned up.
Mother loved poetry. She kept a scrap book and pasted poetry in it.
Scrap books of that sort were quite popular in her day. She was religious, but
never interfered with us young people having a good time, We danced a lot. The
folks used to belong to Good Templars Lodge, which was very popular with everybody
around here in those days.
Foria D Federal Writers Project
Extra Comment Works Progress Administration
OREGON FOLKLORE STUDIES
Name of worker Sara B. Wrenn ,Date December 12, 1938
Address
505 Elks Building, Portland. Oregon
Subject Social Life
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Name and address of informant mrzt_margar_
Cor. Oak Cornell. Oswego. Oregon
Comment: This interview was made chiefly because of the informant's mother and
what she could remember. This trip out to the hill south of Oswego was made to
interview an old lady who was not at home, and the worker interviewed such as
she could find who night tell something. It NVA poor hunting, with a long walk
in "Min.
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