United States, Lampasas County, Texas
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Arnold, Mrs. Edgerton, Longfield, Kate
01.11.0 Ltre• sArortan Arnads iiiirmeab Jaunty, ;teen iletriot 3 ree "To 130. tertie 3BEZ L9 1.1Ii110 t0. "Jos -44:30 IA. criertce3 b ale °P LAM r aA05-S A 7--). -ralat ess.,c464/1. On the bookie of the redly f1xitr 1O Poems. In the ornehLines =Mee, edobo bundire, fit to pore= includinc four obiLdrone mre trr-throo dam eurroanded Irrto than 100 Indian braces. ;trimc tillo letter mare of tbe *Wore Mbar, 7•D•risys lived. an'the fromuor of ronao, 'end hie cattle tocetbor vitt Mom of hie noar and…
Mclennan County, United States, Texas, Waco County
· 1941-02-11
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Arnold, Mrs. Edgaton, Rast, Margurite
6 TOLDIAT Rrs. 14edgertom Jiree44* PA, ReLeasen Oseaty, Tates Distriot So, ,Agnaat liargarite Beat, twee, Ihenee.44Wit fbiee, Tame *isoberY• *Wier INC mow vita 301104 is* *40 Pee* lei 2, PPPA T444.1 "Of ihterest to ell the people of ;,see md Isisimsin dinsty* ie the 3tery of lire. Meissaien, wife of Jell Xelsninesi; the -tint pioneer ts Wad it haw near 4see* km Wawa was bon in'SOotiSiki and sewsIs North Caroline with her perents, where idie iserriddrVell Ilhaanbee. taste of Seotieride in MO,…
Cold Springs, Uvalde County, Mclennan County, Waco County, United States, Texas
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Arnold, Mrs. Edgerton, Willis, Mrs. M. B.
FOLNW4F Mrs. fildgerton Arnold 0P. County, Texas Djwtrjct 8 CCRSULTAIlft Mrs. 11,13. Willie. WeAo• Texas No. words 1256 ile No. 240 Page No. 1 REmiNis=as OF MRS, M4B, WILLIS My parents, Mr. And Mrs, Mosee Balwinwere natives of "lobelia. 4:hey grew up in the some tn. Both married. My mother marrying a 4. Datio After a few years my mothers first hhOWnd died. She loft 21abeea and went to live la hianarieid. LoulommavAtere she met ny father (whose wife had also died) and a year after the meeting…
Arkansas, Abilene County, United States, Texas, Oklahoma
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Avery, N. J., Turney, Samanatha Jane
Abilen• e es Tax Cowboy itneolotes, feewe Lore Z. vry Pee* l• No. of verde (Note: The person int•Irviewed vise Are. 4saanthe Jane Turney, ef.ed 85, a native of tirrrison County, ;1 -kennels, and a resident of Texas sine* 1882. )ier hushiald was a doctor, aominc into lArows :ourtty to take up the iaracqes of medicine among the pio- neer citizens of that aounty, sattltfl4 near the little tome of Blanket.) e left .r K anees early in the spring rf uteo. I didn't want to leave my home, and I had…
Amarillo County, United States, Texas
· 1938-06-28
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Junn, Mrs. G. J.
ohea Interview with 41"1"S• G. J. .;Unn, 1619 Tyler, luesday, June 28, 1938. January 1, 1904, Ts. Nunn came with her husbnni the late .dr. G. J. Aiunn, pions)r educator of the 2nnhnndle, to Amarillo, where they set up houseketping at 701 •'ackson, in the building which was formerly the first -ethJdist in the town and in which the first religious services for other denominations were held. rdnoe .its use an a church building, the house had been remodeled and c averted into an apartment house.…
Harrison County, United States, Texas
· 17 pages
Recorded by: Riding, Mr. John
Interview with Mr. John Riding, 4003 Harrison. Mr. Riding come in about 1890 with two other boys to the Frying an ranch, where they lived in a dugout in a draw that is now the site of a golf course. he dugout, although it had not been recently inhabited, wss a “pretty good dugout". For a trunk the boys used flour sacks, in which they kept a change of clothing, be- cause fleas were so had in the dugout. They would take the flour sacks out on the open prairie and pin them down with sticks to…
Coleman County, San Angelo, Texas, United States
· 1938-02-10
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie P., Sanford, Mrs. Becky
Range -lore Nellie F. Cox San Angelo, Texas. RANGE -LURE Pape one ",my father's people were connected with the ear- liest days of Texas Independence," says Mrs. Becky Sanford of San Angelo, Texas. "General Edward Burle- son and Dr. Rufus Burleson were cousins of my father. We are proud of the name. "It seems that my father moved over the State considerably, possibly for grass for he had larpe herds of longhorns. There were no fences, of course, and riders were kept busy. Mother has cooked for…
United States, Grayson County, Texas
· 1938-06-06
· 43 pages
Recorded by: De Graftenried, Buster, Ervin, Elliot
Dist. 1120 El -Aso, Texas ELLIOTTI ?W Buster (Dad) Ds Graftenried Biography 4.14* Q:v'NRI .1) March 15. 1938 244 words Bronzed by the unL]i wind. Jad IA) Oraftenried is a real life model of the old time cawruncher nd ranohman, A. fringe of snow white hair e..v out beneath .r1 01 tetson hat and his keen eyes twinkle with merriment while he relates adventures of pioneer days. His lecs, bowed by sixty years in the saddle. were encased in fine hand made boots and he rolls a oovlboy ciga.• rette…
Mexico, United States, El Paso, Texas, El Paso County
· 1936-01-01
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Ervin, Elliot, Hughes, John R.
trt., Vera &Mott, /.1 ?aso, luxes. District 20. Sords. 979 Alliott, P. A. JOHN A. MORO, Texas Ranger Captain. File No. 240. 0114--itords. Capt. John d. Hughes, eaptain of the Texas dangers, oldest em -ranger captain in Texas, has served 28 years as a Texas danger. Born in Cambridge, Ills., John Rushes went to the Indian Territory and learned Indian ways on the Indians af the Osage Nation. Re talks low, smiles easy, doeent drink, smoke or gamble —a oonktly old man with white hair and beard. Ho…
El Paso, United States, El Paso County, Texas
· 1936-11-19
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Colmenero, Damasio, Ervin, Elliot
•pc, N.AA, ELLIOTT: PW Folklore Cacique of the Tiguas Dist 20. El Paso, Texas CACI= OF THE TIGUAS #240 p.(2..words Living in a house built by his father, over one hundred years ago, at Yaleta, oxas, Damsel° Colmenero bears the quiet dignity of a Ttgna Chieftain, or Cacique. 444 appears erect, and hardly looks the 72 years which he claims. He had been picking cotton all day, thereby providing a living for himself, two daughters and grand -children, the share the quaint adobe home --a long low…
El Paso, United States, El Paso County, Texas
· 1938-01-10
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Erving, Elliot, Joe M. Evans, Means, John Zack
!OAStitt 1 Palos Temp 21110118 lobs .1411111s.ai, Plower at Doris Coati litoges", PpiII Z. 01 Daus ociony OmniItriat JAN 1 7 1938 Zasuary 10, 1910 4100 rests Zoo Weis ItsVA Paso 143. arts 11 Paso, Tease District OBO X1 Paso, Texas 41iL:1T: Jolts ,feoit Mow, rionor of Davis ,:;ounty Biography JOkiti January 10, 1989 600 woiN4 Miele John" as he wee universal known, was said to be the first white °had born at Tort Sie Cavitt, Texas. Bor. in 1954, he married asp Gay la WT. In 1994, one of the…
Hood County, Granbury, Texas, United States
· 1937-01-08
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Ervin, William V., Rylee, Mrs. J.d.
e louu morns. 4 w L44 44.4 W Viljia V. Lrvin, P. VV. Granbury, hood County, District 8. Reference Consultant Jrs. J. Granbury, Texas. MOP File 240 JAN 8 1937 Page I. 4y father and :Liother lived in Alabama when they were married, and their fathers each gave them 25 slaves, and they came to Texas in tile early fifties. They settled on Faluxy Creek, not far from Glen Rose, which was then known as Barnard's Mill, but there was no town there at that time. That was then Johnson Gounty, then hood…
Somorvell County, Glen Rose, Texas, United States
· 1941-02-11
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Ervin, William V., Reeves, J. H.
Ulan Rosa, 56102,011 coUnTy dietrict 6 rirze Referents. Conoultant flogen Reeves, Glen Ross, Texas Dys :‘,1714,R9oves. In 1669 Dr. J. E. Reeves, grandftither of lioen awns, crmm to wht is now Somervell County from rennin County, Texas; where he be originally eome from Tennessee• lie settled ner the arnaos River a fey miles from Barnardes U111, which is now the town of Glen Rose, county sent of -cemrvell .County. The firnt -ublie road lending from Glen Bose to ClrIburne on he wIst poseed just…
Waco, Texas, United States, Mclennan County
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Ervin, William V., Padgitt, Clint
F—KLORE william V. iArvin, P. h. Nelannan County, Texas. District NO. 9. Ho. words 809" FileNe. MO` Page• 1 13.07,2100 Consultant 4. Clint Padgitt, Pedgitt Co., Frank in and 5th Ste., lame* Texas. Uy grandfather was Captain Shapley P. Ross. In 1849 he built a *thin on the bank of the Brazos river near raoo Spring. He and other of the older neithere of the fanny told me as a boy of the things the people did in the pioneer date. My grandfather wee' in bed with the meals* about the year 1550, as…
Somervell County, Texas, United States
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Ervin, William V., Wood, W.a.
ii ELY 3ETTLIWAT Allim V. ..;rvin somervell County District 8 P. Interview with N. No. of words t-500_ File No. 230 Page 1 Reference dood, Olen Rose, Texas- Erly Settler "My father brought the family to Texas, to what is now Somervell county in 1874, then I WIS twelve years old. When we reached the Brazos River it was up, there was no bridge, end no ferry. We built a skiff to cross but we had to leave all'our things on the other side until the river went down, when we could bring them across…
Wichita Falls, United States, Texas, Wichita County
· 1938-08-29
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Ervin, William V., Stine, H. D.
Um. V. Ervin, PW; Wic ita Palls, Texas_ Page 1 ords 1.700 NuG 2 9 1938 INTER7IEW with H. D. Stine, Henrietta, Texas; pioneer resident of the nichita Falls country. "I came to the Wichita Fells couutry in 1075. There was not any town of Wichita Falls here, then but the falls in the Wichita River was still here, but they are not any longer. "We were in the cattle business, and later in the sheep business, but the rioe of sheep got so low you couldn't get over twenty.five tents a head for them,…
Lipan, United States, Hood County, Texas
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Ervin, William V., Self, Mr. N. B.
EARLY 11.irrilLIZIENT flai, V. Lrvin, W. Hood ',aunty Distrcit /i 8 NO. words 970 iile No, 230 Page No. 1 CONSULTANT: N. D. Self, Lipan, Texas (This report is supplementary to one eubmitted several weeks ago based on information furnished by Li'. N. B. Self, Lipan, Texas; native of Hood (;ounty. The name given by hr. Self which appear in this report are the names of t7e, people who were in the In.s dian raids told of in the first report.) The initials of tr. Self's father were D. S. Self's…
Waco, Mclennan County, Texas, United States
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Ervin, William V., Jones, Mrs. George W.
FOLKLORE Wm. V. Ervin, P. W. McLennan County, District 8. No. of words, File 240. Page 1. Reference Consultant Mrs. George W. Jones, 1801 Colcord Avenue, Waco, Texas. 72 "I was born in McLennan county in 1860, and have lived in the county all rot life. My father was born in Missouri. He came to Texas in 1846, when he was a boy about fifteen years old. It was under peculiar circum- stances that my father came to Texas. His mother, my grandmother, had died, and grandfather married again. My…
South Carolina, United States, Blythewood
· 1938-12-22
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Boney, Ernest B., Farmer, John P.
Approximately 3000 lioro. TITLE s SOUTH CAROL.TRA. WRITERS, PROJINCT LIFE HISTORY Th EXPERDEEIMS OF A FARM (MIER Date of First Writing Raft of person Interviewed Fiotitious Mao Ilsoe Occupation December 22, 1938 Ernest B. Boney (white) :Tone Used. Blythewood, S. C. Farmer Name of Writer John P. Farmer Name of Reviser State Office It was a beautiful sunthiny day when I called on Ernest Boney. His home, about one mile north of Blythewood„ is on an unpaved road leaving U. S. highway 421 so ne…
Columbia, United States, South Carolina
· 12 pages
Recorded by: Jones, Mattie, Prosser , John William, Prosser, Corrie
Approximately 3,000 words 74 B TITLE& SOUTH CAROLTWA WRITERS' PROJECT LIFE HISTORY AIN'T IT SO, CURRIE? Date of First Writing Name of Person Interviewed Fictitious Name Street Address Place Occupation J ame of Writer Name of Reviser February 6, 1939 John William Prosser (white) Don Powers 304 Wilson Street Olympia Hill, Columbia, S.C. Textile Worker Matti° T. Jones State Office "Yes, ma'am, this is Don Powers. Clad you come. Corriess round here soneWhers. Let's go in the house and set by the…