United States, New Mexico, Anthony
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Carter, Marie
Marie :,‘arter Anthony, New Mexico Anthony Old Timers Dictionary In Detail 1,000 words There is no doubt, that to -day and not to -morrow, is the propitious time to collect and preserve some of the true stories of this Great Southwest. For there are not many of the early settlers or old-timers left. Many, who were the pathfinders for us, have passed away, leaving no records of the heroic parts they played in the historical drama of our country. Take one old-timer for instance --one of the…
United States, Clovis, New Mexico
· 1937-06-26
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Kilgore, Belle, Maxwell, Lena Kempf
The equipment for these schools was purchased by money made from pie suppers, tackey parties and festivals common in this state. There wore also some private donations. Yes, we have had 'hard times', cold weather, hot weather, storm snows and fires and other inconveniences oommon to people on the frontier. These have been years whop peopled were compelled of to use a grelA def--.1 ingenuity to be able to stick to their claims. A One story is told of a faTily after yore of dry weather, rt..-J…
Clovis, New Mexico, United States
· 1937-07-17
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Carver, Kilgore, Belle
JUL 1 71S37 Lrs. Belle Lilgore 718 .a1.1c .treet Clovis, Lew Mexico 300 "ords J. CA7V-R 511 Sheldon Street 5Clovis, ew Dr. C...rver lives alone in his 00 utiful wnite stucco two -room .ome. It cont-ins taree apartments. Dr. Carver had just come from an address given over the radio. .e is ore of the ministers of Clovis and zort lee who gives snort adtresses every day at 930 concering so e vital toiAc both in siAritual and national interest. iho subject of tills sketch w. s born nc-r Cleveland…
United States, New Mexico, Clovis
· 1937-07-17
· 1 page
Recorded by: Kilgore, Belle, Pyle, H. M.
4i-e'ttro JUL 1 7 1937 RAO Worts Mrs. Belle Xilgore 718 Wallaoe "treet Clovis, Mow Mexico H. M. PTIR 40$ Cennelly Street Clovis, Mew Maxie° Mr. Pyle was born near Quinsy, Adams County, Illinois, in 1861 and moved to Texas with his parents neva* Bonham, Texas. Lie was educuted in Texas and Arkansas, anl taught **heal near Fort *lithe Franklin county Arkansas for six years. He came back to Texas and Married Miss !iary f,nn Smith. lie taught school in Texas twenty-four ye rs, Oklahoma, three…
Clovis, New Mexico, United States
· 1937-07-17
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Kilgore, Belle, Pendergrass, Thomas N.
JUL 17 1937 Mrs. Telle Kilgore 718 ':allace Street Clovis, Lew Mexico TiOM.i“- N. P-1D"RG',.SS 917 itclell Street CLOVI' PL7,ST NEWSBOY IremiONION11.11111111111111 1100 Words "I was born in 1900 near ,eed, Mw Mexico, not very far from Artesia. It is very mountainous there and the New Mexico Boy Scouts' summer camp is boated nere ead. e lived there and at Lrtesia until 190b, wnen 1)ad moved to Toxic°. 7arly in 1907, he decided to move to Clovis which had been made the division point of the…
Clovis, New Mexico, United States
· 1937-03-06
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Kilgore, Belle, Wood, Hugh M.
Mrs. Belle Xilgore 718 vq111Ae Street Clovis, New Mexico Hugh M. Wood's Story MAR 6 1937 1,200 Words Mr. hugh M. Wood and wife, 711 Walloe Street, Clovis, hew Mixioo, came with a uolony of thirty.five fumilies from Ft. Worth, Texas and settled ntvr Melrose Aid St Yrain, in Sept 107. Ur. Wood tooik up a claim ons and one.half mile from St Yrain. In 1908, Mr. Wood moved his family to Melrose for school purposes' Of course, they had to go 1:sck and forth to the claim to hold it. fter they proved…
United States, New Mexico
· 1937-05-08
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Hull, Jack, Kilgore, Belle
f MAYS 1937 nrs. e1i il..)fo 718 q11 0e troot Capv14,1V5t 'exico I I BY Zack Loll 450 Words If I -ore 0 llel e to roc° t from t' it. I.e loi- dent wIlt0h et nds out r-ost vividly ir rienoer 1 't t re- rj,,,n, It Id 'D rove ve to n Tee t leo fr w,en, *10; t." r clA, —iveri on my 1 vey -e rflo t'e u, nod soJt. it. jot o4'1 e t in bo midni it t o_ leo. s 1i jr t3 nd I itc..i d.rk. pe 3.d ni .t clerk of t_e lit le )J.d -A-Anson ilotol f:.et me nd c ried my f,r1 to liJ pl. 0o TY-, 11 fror tho…
Clovis, United States, New Mexico
· 1937-07-03
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Kilgore, Belle
Belle Ki1ore 718 fIllaee 6treet QUovis, Lew NelOoo JUL 3 IG37 FYO ar"vt° COBOY I was teaching ner, Ranger Lake, (Long.108 fat.334). lea County, Now Mexico during the first part of 1917 and boarded with Mr. Boss Beal's It we a severeoold winter, and the cattle men were having a great de:J.1 of work to do to keep the cattle from drifting in to the hills south and west. The cattle werewwek and the grase w -s f-hort, so it I've necessary to keep them where they could be fed. "Of course, now since…
Clovis, New Mexico, United States
· 1937-06-01
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Kilgore, Belle
trLIZAA) Mrs. Belle ilgore 718 Wallows Stroot aovis, how Itexioo JUN 1 1937 2.200 Words ,1ARLY v123RT:NCIt8 IN Inw MMXICO In 1902, I sold a paying photo studio loestod in Grand saw line, Van Una county, Texas, and moved to the plains. I left my wife and Irby at Plainview, Texas, with her mother and oame to Kew Uoxioo, in October of that year to look for a new cation. My first stop ware at nexioo, on the stqto lino of Texas and New Maxie°. There were two or three sterile, several saloons and a…
Las Vegas, United States, New Mexico
· 1938-11-28
· 7 pages
Recorded by: [De?] Baca, Mary Elba C., Gallegos, Guadalupe Lupita, Lynn, Bright
N Bright Lynn Las Vegas Date: Nov. 28, 198 Words: 10/a..4b-dp 4.• Fubject: Biography Source of information: Guadalupe Lupita Gallegos, Mary Elbe C. De Baca DEC 5 1938 THE BIOGRAPHY OF GUADALUPE LUPITA GALLEGOS Note: --Mrs. Gallegos has been too ill lately to talk very long at a time. Consequently, I have asked her granddaughter, Mary Elba C. De Baca, to get the remainder of the story of her life a little bit at a time and, in turn, tell it to me. After living in Panuelitas where they had the…
Taos, New Mexico, United States
· 1936-08-09
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Haskell, Muriel, Phillips, Bert
woy4C4 VNA.A.A.-1 AUG 4 Muriel Baskell 1-(1936 1050 Words A, THZ =CHANT= JUG One morning some twenty years ago as Bert Phillips, noted 211f artist, stood talking to Geronimot a large Pueblo Winn with one half-closed fri their conversation turned to piece of pottery which Geronimo had found up the claim from the Pueblo. "I thought perhaps you'd be interested in buying it, Mr. Phillips," suggested Geronimo. The Indian and the artist were friends of long standing- Geronimo having posed for…
Clayton, New Mexico, United States
· 1936-09-01
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Charlton, Dr. Newton E, Hodges, Carrie L.
Hodges, Carrie L. 9, 11, 36. cl 580 words. PIONEERS OF NEW MEXICO Dr. Newton E. Charlton. One of the most honored and respected citizens, as well as a highly distinguished member of the medical profession,was Dr. N. E. Charlton of Clayton, New Mexico, who practiced his profession at this place for a period of thirty-three years. He was born on a farm near VevaysIndiana in November 1851, where he was reared. In 1866, at the age of fifteen years, the Charlton family moved to the town of Vevay,…
United States, New Mexico, Clayton
· 1936-09-25
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Hodges, Carrie L., Mccuistion, O. W.
Carrie L. Hodges 9/25/36 Cl. 1056 words TALES OF OLD TIMERS Interview with O.W. McCuistion Of Clayton, New Mexico. "Many was the time," so relates Mr. 0.W. McCuistion, one of northeastern New Mexico's earliest settlers, "that I found myself just around a bunch of bushes from the hostile Comanche Indians, they not seeing me and I only seeing them in time to save my scalp." This tribe of Indians ravaged the herds of horses, and drove Off all they coUld acquire, but left the cattle unmolested.…
United States, New Mexico, Clayton
· 1936-09-19
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Heringa, John J., Hodges, Carrie L.
/111.1.".4.1 Hodges, Carrie 9/11/36 el 516 91436 PIONS;a3S OF NWW Jebel 47, Hirringa• Jahn J. Meriiwa came to Alw iexlco in Wall so that his entire business experience has been acquired in this state. BA was born in Freeland, Hellandi April 42, 1672. His father being an Attorney at Leaf, was able to give his son every educational advantage he would take. At the ege of about nineteen years he left school and came to the United &tate*, sailing on the steamship Spaarndam, from Rotterdam to ;;ew…
Clayton, United States, New Mexico
· 1936-08-21
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Evans, John W, Hodges, Carrie L.
-,ouges, g/21/36. c1737 PIONEERS OF NEW MEXICO. John' Evans. words. AUG 3 11936 One of northeastern New Nixicols most prominent and prosperous business men and ranchmea was John W. Evans, who, though he lived a number ol years in the town of Clayton, called his homestead, located five miles south of town, ham.. Ur. ;.van s was born in Madison, Tndiana, August 17, Whe:, a very suall lad, he was left fatherless, The mother thenassumed the two -fold duty of parenthood to the child,. but afue a…
Clayton, United States, New Mexico
· 1936-09-21
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Hodges, Carrie L., Niemann, Mrs. Louise
/h*rfriseAV hoges, Carrie Li• AUG 3 11936 Va/36. al 682 words. WO= WHO HAI/ Z PIONE.Slia NkW MEXICO. Mrs. Louise Miasma. In the beemtifUl city of Haase Castle on the River Mine, in southern 3ermany near France, was borne in the year 1859, Louise Wage (American pronunciation, Klinger)p_one of Union Counti4 pioneer women, who had the fortitude, fOrboarence and courage to weather the diffieultiee and hardships of a lone claim.holder. It was in this city of Haase Castle on the Mine, over. Shadowed…
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
· 1939-06-09
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Kenney, B. W.
B TV. Leone -!firltinokitduS Albuquerqu e June 9# 1939 About 1500 words Sources Personal Interview JUN 1 2194 EARLY .1,..)rF, IN kUBUQUWa .PE In 1886 Frans and Charles Nilnin3 opened a store in Old Albuquerque, with a general stock of everything from drugs to furniture und clothing. Difficulties entailed in hauling the goods wet from Kansas City and Lit. Louis made for limited stocks of merchandise, especially furniture which is walky and more easily broken en -transit. Some inJicatior of the…
Melrose, United States, New Mexico
· 1937-06-21
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Degraftenreid, Buster, Kilgore, Belle
c,AN trtt.i.A) iw 2 1 1937 Lire. 3elle Kilgore 718 tA.lade Areet 0.1ovis, New Lexioo 1500 Words q177777 771TPT7777.1D Melrose,New Mexico T called on nr. Degraftenreid Diet ionday. de was asleep. do has been ill ever sinoe the Pioneer Ikly Celebration at Clovis the first days of June. he 06.me out on the poroh with a smile on his lace and a brown oigarette paper in 4iis hand. I had met him several days before at Clovis, and had asked for an interview. do not recall very mu oh about my family,…
Clovis, New Mexico, United States
· 1937-07-10
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Cornell, Mrs. George F., Kilgore, Belle
JUL I 7 1937 Mrs" Belle Kilgore 718 waiumw strvIt Clovis New ilexio0 Ally lb, 19S/ 1160 Words MRS. GEORG7 00ROLL 717 File Street Olovis, Newliexieo One day early in the week I Galled on Mrs. 0ornell, She is a very pleasant woman in her early sixties. I was very fav- orably in -pressed when she .rIshered me irto her living room. -Of oourse, I knew thet she vvs an artist but I was not prepred to fee evoh excellent deoor_tion as were on the wnlls of her hOMO. The room war firtshsd in harmonious…
Pecos, United States, New Mexico
· 1939-04-28
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Erickson, Charles, Ortiz, Teodosio, Reuter, B. A.
B. A. Reuter Pecos, N. Mex. ill ferule 14).5 OLD WELL ON prams RANCH Date: April 28, 1939 Words: 2300 Subject: Old Well on Pigeon Ranch now owned by Tom Greer. Source of information; Octavian° §6gura of Pecos, N. M. now deceased. Teodosio Ortiz, Pecos, N. M. Charles Erickson, Pecos, N. M. The well about a mile east of the town of Glorieta, close to and on the south aide of highway 85 and situated on, what was once known as the "Pigeon Ranch" is the subject under consideration. This well,…