Texas, Erath County, United States
· 1941-02-11
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Mcneill, Mrs. Mary, Townsend, Edward
FTSTOR1 Award Town&end, P. W. Erath County, Texas. lAstriot No. 8. jieference, xs. Mary McNeill, Faye. No. of words400 File no, 200 Pagel. In the spring of 1.854, Dr, W. W. McNeill, a young M. D. in com- pany with :ajor B. Erath and John M. Stephen, with true Pioneer Spirit, these men set out in search of good location in the west and finding suitable land with plenty of gross, water and game they looted on the spot now known as Stephenville. Major ;A•ath nnd john M. Itephen proceeded to lay…
United States, Texas, Erath County
· 1936-11-22
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Bonds, Mrs. Sarah M., Warren, Ivey G.
PeNIle Gatherings., qpiltimqs• District 17 Pg.2 t In then". Mother Bon' e folelell her tiny hcnis in her,Isp and ge,seti at t7.e blue wed fienoe in the itttle caa heatev, eot to thinking things ovor theue,, an r these to eeelthingn sone elifferently to askpt I (111S r, few yenrs nrn I gael 1511:1t it is underetoeiiiig nnd viedom th,t comes with agek I am getting close to 70 now an4 bvo deceiled that if we need merey to op:my the good work of the Lore! It is eht to mnke it doing these honest…
United States, Lubbock County, Texas
· 1936-12-21
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Warren, Ivey G., Wolffarth, Mrs. George C.
Warren, Ivey G. Lubbock County Half A Century On The south Plains. December 21, 1236. District I? 004 Nee we forded the river withent disaster. Pg. 2 01, 'Next we came to the Canadian livers, lire. Wolffftth went an. 'This river was not deep excepting whore biles h.. been washed out in the sand* A, long train of wagons crossed just in front of us, these wagons were drawn by about twenty oxen* lion on horses rode across the .•1•111. river and picked out a crossing place before they let the ex…
Lubbock County, Texas, United States
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Warren, Ivey G.
Warren, Ivey G. P.W. Loblmisk:GenaiNr District 17. Words 02,/12A4 loabbook Teams •S' SAIJA VIVO ftW ,064011"Va "NY father, George M. Went, brought his family to the South Plains in 1894. frau Sterling. Iansas.* said Mrs. George O. Wolftarth. *I was quite small then. but I have heard the details of the trip recounted nulbers of times by mr wok.' and the older children of our family *There were 14 people who started in this journey to the Texas Plains, there I! Vo" Henry Baldwin ant his family.…
United States, Lubbock County, Texas
· 1936-11-14
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Brown, Judge P. F., Warren, Ivey G.
\iWarren, Ivey G. November 14, 1936. Vora /9.O Lubbock Coopty District 17. Biblograohi. Judge P. F. Brown. Lubbock, Tex. >c -e Tales Of Early Days.AN, C44 -&-6-421/t do -Iv -44277 Pg r Judge P. F. Brown came to Lubbock in 1891, Be was about 38 years old then and had been teaohing school in the Best for several years. After he came to Lubbock he taught in the Central Nazi School under J. K. Rester, who not only taught school, but itiook., took a great interest in politics, and at times made…
Lubbock County, Texas, United States
· 1936-11-30
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Boone, Mrs. W. T., Warren, Ivey G.
tit LO-oA 'Warren, Dm,' G. November 30, 1936. ot-y) e e p Wawa 2eminisainco* Of Newly Days Dietriet IT. In labheok County. Bibliogrsohy Nes, in T. Beene. 13th St, Lubbock, Texas. aame to Labbook from Fannin County 41 years ago; 941d rts. T. Boone, 82 yanr old Lubbock pioneer: 4NV health was failing, so we decided to move to the pliklas in the hoe that the change would help me. We hitched our mules to two big farm emg. ens, loaded heavily with furniture and all of the other things that we…
Lubbock County, Texas, United States
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Bean, Mrs. George R., Warren, Ivey G.
C-1 a a taaa 1.arrint, Ivey G. PW Labbook County i"7 District 17. Words //I AVAI Lubbock, Texas ug. 1 "My father Dr. William Sant, vmol a physieian employed by the government in the Indian Territory, for 10 years,* Mrs. George B. Bean sAd. "I wae horn 28 miles south of Arkansas Gity in the northern part of Oklahoma, but my aarente. moved to the South Plains when I wee quite small and iodated at Battu:ado in 1881.* "The land eronnd Nsteeado used to belong to the State of Texas„but,paxls Gor…
Lubbock County, Texas, United States
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Driver, M. F., Warren, Ivey G.
Warren, Ivey O. PW Lubbock County District 17. Words 1753 V. 240 Lubbock. Texas pg. 1 COWBOY LIFE IN LONE CATTLE OARS "I have spent most of my life on ranches," said Mart (M6 P.) Driver, who is 70 years old and who is a veteran cowboy of Oklahoma and Texas oattle ranches. "I ORM* to Lubbock on October 1, 1906 from Oklahoma and started in to run a, freight wagon between Lubbock and Big Spring. The weather was dreadfully bad that fall, We had one snow that measured 14 inches on a level. At that…
Lubbock County, Texas, United States
· 1936-12-09
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Burns, Rollie C., Warren, Ivey G.
Rollie C. Burns. 4.4.4.4k "I bill'? iny first buffalo wheaten sixteen Mrs oldefitante Cs ftrall,r0 in the Lubbock Conrthouse and related erparlinces of swirly days. Is It was in the of I87.3s( haf just run off from home end joined en espodition to the nort)heet pert of the states. This Iv,* a convoy of 110 nen under the leadership of Zdasond who was the only Republican kererocr that Texas bas ever had. ft well, we bal gotta* aver here in The north part of the emu* and we began run short of…
Lubbock County, Texas, United States
· 1936-12-28
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Mobley, Mrs. J.b., Warren, Ivey G.
:7 Warren, Ivey G. Lubbock County Pg.I December 28, 1936. District 17 11, 1311.ite- 10E-_.ttra, Bibliography. Mrs. J. B. Mobley. "I was teaching school in Virginia when I decided to come to Texas", Mrs. J. B. Mobley said. "I always was adventurous and I said to myself,mLaurel Davis, I walk* to see a little of this old world. Texas seemed, in these early days, a long, long way from Virginia, still the more I contemplated the trip, the more daring I grew, so I advertised in the Ft. Worth Gazette…
Old Town, Maine, United States
· 1938
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Grady, Robert, Ouellette, Wilfred
main* Living Lore Old Town 1 FERslIAL =STORY 3r V. WILEVD OTTELLETTE, 'RENCK CANADIAN Father Ouellette is nearly aim feet tall, daft, and very agreeable. BA wears eye glasses and has dark wavy hair. Is about 45 year, old perhaps. His face was perfectly expression. less at finite but as be talked about the French his face ligbted up with interest and enthusiasm. I certainly enjoyed the inter- TiAPW shish furnished a decided contrast to others because of the aants poise, precise speech, and side…
Maine, United States, Old Town
· 14 pages
Recorded by: Grady, Robert
elm= USE. OR RS (Cheek one) fus...443146.4:gallieNNA...d TITLE Noted Fri ii Cenediano of 014 To yam Robert AIM =CUR loam ornni urb,irrriow OCOORRIT3 13 Maine Living Lore Old Town 1 NOTED FRENCH CANADIAN PERSONALITIES OF OLD TOWN (As Remembered By Robert F. Grady) /93 My parents, although not French, were born in Canada and lived under conditions much similar to those under which the French Canadians of that period lived. Having been brought up in a town that had and has today a large French…
Maine, United States, Old Town
· 1938
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Grady, Robert, Mitchell, Henry, Mitchell, Mrs. Henry
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) PUB. Living Lore in New England (Maine) TITLE Henry Mitchell, Indian Canoe Maker WRITER Robert Grady DATE IDS. PP. 25 to31 CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN Interview COMMENTS Maine Living Lore Old Town 254 (Mr. Mitchell's home is rijat next to the school house of which Henry is the janitor. As we passed the brightly lighted school I m)ticed that Henry was inside industriously sweeping the fib r. Knowing that his dutiet: wo ldn't keep him there very long I…
Maine, United States, Old Town
· 1938
· 21 pages
Recorded by: Grady, Robert, Mitchell, Henry, Mitchell, Mrs. Henry
OR max lot= (Cloak ono) p. 147vins Toro 1,iwyr Ei‘lond, (Ifoino) rrna Ift917 411t11.144. IP41" urns Rtlitrt 1114Y DUI_______PP. 32 to 61 =tin DAIS SOUR= arm (1) mom Dittrvivff Maine Living Lore Old Town 32 (The Life of Henry Mitchell, Indian Canoe Maker) (Az usual, henry was finishing up his work for the day at the island school where he is the janitor when I got over there.) Mrs. Mitchell: "I think the Indians nowadays eat about the same foods that the whites do, and prepare them in about…
Maine, United States, Old Town
· 1938
· 28 pages
Recorded by: Grady, Robert F., Mitchell, Henry, Mitchell, Mrs. Henry
tfr- •1.4e:/.4Acot Raa ration an story L USIO ;:ainted rd bu the side of a hil: oo AMUR, Is by s smalL ere of Iodise WA worts* a shop% of the Wend* A r.:-oup or ska down elow, Betwsø n it_to *Ills tocuit ea the island la the small brlht roLt then I ot-r 0 the part of D itiA410, f a f,esh coat. It Slle on an4 an e road recently i=proved The road ourvee down *rend ere an4371o; the skatinc of the main roads on 1.,ous MStc boLt live* aund hla ovinc orawood °:13;•.f.4k.21 the bacasnt window of the…
United States, Massachusetts
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Manual, Frank
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION MONTPELIER, VERMONT Samuel H. Crosby XXXSOKNAligMEENC ADMINISTRATOR Pavilion Hotel Room 102 May 2, 1939 Mr. Frank Manuel Regional Director Federal Writers' Project Works Progress Administration 25 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts Dear Mr. Manuel: I am enclosing herewith the story of Palmer" which Mrs. Halley has completed. is no need of her attempting further work has evidently done all she is capable of. is getting factual material which will be your…
United States, Massachusetts, Brookfield
· 1939-03-28
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Bartlett, Ella, Bassett, [Louise] G.
rikas Blia Bortlett New Enelang Gentility STATE Massachusetts NAME OF WORKER Lose G. Bassett ADDRESS Brookfield, Massachusetts DATE March 28, 1939 SUBJECT Living Lore NAME OF INFORMANT Ella Bartlett ADDRESS Brookfield, Massachusetts Name Louise G. Bassett Title Diving Lore Assignment j=2,s1 Topic Ella Bartlett New England Gentility As I swept off the snow left by the last and very unwelcome storm, I looked down the street and saw a weary little figure fighting the strong wind that was…
Brookfield, United States, Massachusetts
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Bessett, Louise G., Wallace, Allen
:T1E Massachusetts rALE OF JORKER Louise G. Bassett ADDRESS Brookfield2 Massachusetts DATE December 12 1938 SUBJECT Living Lore PLACE OF INTERVIEW The interview took place in Alan Wallace's rattletrap Ford in which he and the worker were rattling home from the postoffice. It was a colc_ d4y2 the roaCe rutty and rough froL Le recent &tom—, but Alan drove ft rzneuvering his ancient conveyance with the skill of an artist and talking steadily all tie time. Ki`mav-sz,, /1-5g Name: Louise G.…
Brookfield, United States, Massachusetts
· 1938-12-19
· 13 pages
Recorded by: Bartlett, Ella, Bassett, Louise
No.) STATE Massachusetts, NAME OF WORKER Louise Bassett ADDRESS Brookfield, Massachusetts DATE OF INTERVIEig December 19, 1938 SUBJECT Living Lore NAME ADDRESS OF Ella Bartlett, Brookfield, INFOREANT Massachusetts Ella Bartlett, or Miss Bartlett, as she prefers to be called, canes from one of Brookfield's old-time first families. In the Victorian days when a few thousand dollars wese.considered a fortune by small towners, Miss Bartlett's father was a man of money and power. His daughter was…
Brookfield, United States, Massachusetts
· 1939-01-16
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Bartlett, Ella, Bassett, Louise
Ella Bartlett Flew England Gentility vn the Down Grade No13 STATE i,:ALE OF LKiR ADDRESS LATE SUB,JECT it OE' IF:Fortii,AIA ADDhESS LASSAOhTIS LOUISE BASSETT BRouhFIELD, icASAonuslTS JAI1LARY 16, 1939 LIVIiqG LORE LtLLA BARTLETT Bh,oKinl-LuJ, 1,.ASSAohUSITTs Liss Ella Bartlett has lived in the town of Brookfield all her long life, her family belonged to the town's aristocracy and "Uss Ella's ideas are those of the land and f“ctory owners the gentility of a mall Lassachusetts town. To hear Liss…