South Carolina, Charleston, United States
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Jemison, Ophelia, Tiedman, Cassels R.
Accession no. 11, 01..1 WPA L. C. PROJECT ivriter S4 UNIT Form -3 409922 Date received 10/10/40 Consignment no. 1 Shipped from Wash. office Label Amount 2 p V Folklore Collection (or Type) Title. Verbati:m conversation) EBegin3: Yes Jesus: 1 am firing to go... Place of origin.iiha.rleston.,....S......C.A_ Date.2129/38 Project worker....C.a.sselsI .__ii.... Ladman. Project editor Remarks Project •i-1655 Cassels R. Tiedeman Char1eston, 3. C. (Verbatim Conversation) 390550 FOLKLORE "Yes Jesusi…
Newberry, United States, South Carolina
· 1938-05-16
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Anderson (Armstrong), Mrs. Isabel, Summer, G.l.
Accessions _ no. 11046 Date received /e// trd Consignment no. Shipped from Label Amount AA WPA L. C. PRO UNIT Yons-3 Collection (or Type) /Ids: .6-e,sazi;:s.sar...carsaaaAwe__7: ClAaladgz Place of Project worker_ Project editor.. Remarks ate,..41zAt Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg Dist.4 June 8, 1938 REMINISCENCES 3 -422:54 Edited by: Elmer Turnage "I was born in Barnwell County, S. C., in 1854. I remember about General Sherman's army marching through South Carolina. They went through our…
Newberry, United States, South Carolina
· 1938-05-23
· 1 page
Recorded by: Gilbert, Fred, Summer, G.l.
Project 1865-1 Folklore Edited by: Spartanburg Dist.4 Elmer Turnage June 8, 1938 ANECEOTES Many years ago, at least 25 or 30, there was an (Ad man in Newberry who WOA named Johnstone. He operated a small book store, and in the rear of the store was quite a pop lar place for playing checkers. Many of the old man's acquaintances would gather and play or watch the games. On one occasion when old Mr. Johnstone Vat.: playing and in the midst of the game when all was in suspense, a customer came in…
Texas, United States, Briscoe County
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Graham, Mrs Lucile Ross, Mcguire, Delisa
District 17. Words 872 Briscoe Comity YlOriner, 'PM! 1001 5 055_ A. R. Jaeo established Qpitagee in 1891 *hen he built the firnt store tbnre. This little store ,V,11 the onlv one at Quiteges for 10 years and Pr. Jo handled a Toreern1 line for thm co*boys and ranober- in the enrrounding earintrl. Th- enriy Anil service ter this little conmunity in ale° oonneeted with his mere since he TrA the thtrd 'Iostonster in the connty. There were two F' nt the rnnch be+-nre the rostoffics moved to fir…
Crosby County, United States, Texas
· 1936-08-05
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Bicknell, N. Y., Mcguire, Delisa
McGuire. Wise Crosby Aug. 44 1,210 N.Y. Distrifit 17 (N. Y. 73$40Will) (Uncle Jell) 3tcknell, 100 tells a few happenings of *Howler Days At listaeadow Page 1 the e-rly days of ,3rosby county, ITAI born in Nadisonville, Tean., in August W.), the year of the memeMOble campaign of Allrallw Lincoln wneme is n uceeseful e Idate for the presidency. "Uncle Nellv is now 75 yerire old. *I same to T elce in 1184, SteOgnd 3am :alis and their allies, ad Telple Nllis and oyes*. -deoidtYld that we would…
Howard County, United States, Texas
· 1936-11-14
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Miller, J. O. (Mrs.), R. W. Smith
MiLler Vol Mc re liesend denaty Dietriat le SQ. tem. Z. O. WiLleo•wl". Dist. 186 Sordege VA -3.7t 11.)/10 I) MIT pa UK As related 1)7 W. W. Watt, plower rancher df years et age. Is a letter to M. Z. O. Willow, told verker. September 14, 1936. I bean work em the Long 3 Reach ta 1084, Augmet 15, just 50 peers e. out of the couatry wee epee ramie, or at lase* it was from Sweeteatow to Al Poe*. emarealy slept la a hone, fer three years. we branded about 15,000 cattle each year. About Nevemberld,…
United States, Texas
· 5 pages
Fangs -lore PaGe one Ruby Tosley San Angelo, Texas RANG1.Y•LORE Living in Williamson County when Texas was hardly more than a wilderness, Miss Martha Mather recalls some of the excitement of pioneer days: father was a good manager and became very prosperous. He owned and operated a grist mill, /306, mill, saw mill, blacksmith shop, post office, and general store in the village in whioh we lived. 'Then the civil Her broke out he went to enlist but government officials realising that he would be…
United States, Mexico, Texas
· 1938-07-01
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Maloney, Ruby, Thompson, Ben
Ruby Maloney Austin, Text's JIZOGRAPFIGAL Tial .2Z XX Wail= JUL -1. 1938-- nen 7hompeon wss born in 1844, of -nglish parents, The name or Thompson has spread to the extreme borders Or this Gouts try, over its mountains and valleys, through the ulnas of Moslem, the mines of California, the minelel fields of Oolorado and the far interior and even beyond the oceans, for he had kindred in old -ngland on one siee of us, and far Australia on the Other. A brave, fearlees M44, retiring and *heritable…
United States, Texas
· 7 pages
Phipps, woody Rengelere J!Tt Ow., Dist* 7. bora Lewisville, Tex. /Oh. WS. 181 a troweling cattle trades wbo le 1616 family with him* At 11 Reit. weft* op the Payne Raish, isomer 41,1 his life never 1ta7,d 144g in one places he bas worked in railroad constriotien eel othqr. %video; 10 new manager of the Donna Rotel, 101 Lam 3t., Pt. w Or tho 1 ween't born am the range bu the longest Pim ever lived in 4 toes ainCo ilium big enough to reeilleet is sines I cum° to Pt Worth about three moaths ago.…
Tarrant County, Texas, United States
· 1941-02-11
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Smith, L. E., Woody, Phipps
-4•• .1.443tUF iro ONLAtE.-0-1-- ,SPo/ I Al D LE c,1" PhiAms, woody Rangelore Tarrant Go., Dist: 47 page 4/1 FG L.E. Smith, 81, was born on a farm in New Tommy. Hip uncle reared him as his parents died in his infancy. n. ran away from home at 18, gradually working hde way. South until he reaWed !Nixes in 1883. !le was employed as a cowboy on the 101 Ranch in San Saba Co. The next Yr., he was employed on the Bonner Ranch in San Saba, then the next five Yrs. by C.A. 0:Keefe, a Pt. Worth…
United States, Houston County, Texas, Houston
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Coleman, Mrs. John, Ridegbaugh, Mildred
-,yok.p4011.101.11,•,* Ridanbaagh, Mildred P.W.-1,060 Houston, Tex. Dist. 6 Folklore at. t REICNISCENCES OP A. PIOiEER 40,240 Page 1 Her no longer brawny fingers fondled the aged shawl. She slowly, rather wearily, pleated the weave and then pressed it back into place. Her gray head nodded slightly as she remembered, and in ,her tired eyes gleamed something from the past. She is Mrs. John Coleman, 74 years old, and a resident of Houston for the past 42 years. She is a Daughter of the…
Texas, United States, Lubback County
· 1936-12-30
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Milwee, J. K., Robertson, Mrs. Wyndham
Rebertsen* Mrs.lYndham December 30th, 1936. VI, 0)-(1 J Lubbock °gun y 240 District 17 Pg. 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY1 J. I. Millwee, Cattleman. "THUS WORK AND T. A CATTLMAN1 Among the old timers who came to these glorious Plains during the N 704" Ia stands out a. picturesque charcter, J. K. Millirem. I first met him while in search of same one really seasoned in the intri- cacies of the cattle business if early and later days. We get to talking abet attle drives, Indians, Colonel Geednight, Oliver Loving…
Lubbock County, United States, Texas
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Green, Mrs Mary, Wyndham (Mrs.)
Robertson, Mrs. Wyndham Lubbock Coenty Lenember 1913 District 17 iv BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mre. Wm. N. Grew: Interview with Mrs. MarY Green. 280 Pg.1 The other lay I was visiting with HAunt Mary* Gown as eh* is affectionately known to many. Alidear little green cottage ahiala overleoks the canyon, north of the city, sthlds in n earaen, which in the spring and suamerfint a charming background for the housa which shelters Mr. Mrs. Green. Protectad by a fence, a brick walk of irregular pattern lead to the…
Oldham County, United States, Tascosa, Texas
· 1938-03-25
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Mitchell, Mrs. Frank
the, LX the :Matador, and the 'rring- Fin for her hUsbend,, learning, t0ype k 4 j Interview with LTS. Frank Mitchell, 409_Forest Yarch 25, 1938. krs. Mitchell, who came to Old Tnscosa as a very young girl, in 1884, knew Frank Valley, Fred Chilton, and d ding, three cawboys who figured in the fatql-shooting of Larch 21, 1886. She remembers the as nice yaung cbys who treated her ns Considerately as any -of the others and who acted as gentlemanly. jarank Valley was tall, dark, And handsome,…
Erath County, United States, Texas
· 1941-02-11
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Davis, W. H.
RLY H. Davis, V. Childress, ,Zath County District 8 No. of words 400 File no. 230 1--ge I. Reference H. Davis, Box 5P, Childress, Texas William H. Davis, Senior, came from North Carolina in the spring of the year 1656 to Texas and settled on the North Peluxy River. They were the seventh family to settle on the Paluxy from its hood to its mouth, a distance of same fifty miles or more. It took three months to make the trip to Texas in covered wagons drawn by oxen. t this time, pnther, ber,…
United States, Texas
· 1940-12-23
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Hooks, Matthew (Bones)
!..aterview with Bones Hooks, pioneer Negro cowboy December 23, 1940 1607 words 41-c_ tkitt) Interview with Bones Rooks Matthew (Bones) Rooks, who for years worked on PanhswAle ranches as a horse wrangler and "brono=baster", knows many tales of cowboy life in the early days, but be refuses to tell the most interesting ones" because it would rattle skeletons in the closets of prominent families" --old-timers who are still living or their descendants. Bones, without calling embarrassing names,…
Texas, United States
· 1940-12-23
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Hooks, Matthew (Bones)
'gords 1110 "lioness" "Bones", pioneer Negro bronco -buster of the Panhandle, has given 275 vhite flowers to rel-tives of old-timers who have crossed the Lest Frontier. He has prep. sented nany others to those who have done something outstandingly "white". Among those who ava raceived this "gaerdon of hipaor" aro the Jreoldent of t:ao ited Stitet, Mrs. eor coocvolt, -ostiAa3ter enera1 Jamie farley, Governor James V. AllreA of Texas, Governor Olydo fin. -,ley of ,sw :Lexiash lush Crem4 May S,…
San Angelo, United States, Tom Green County, Texas
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Mayes, Ben
br peIal Vluite Page one HANG'S LOFE "1 am a Tom Green county Cowboy," mays 3en 'ayes, one or :'an Angelo's old timers, "and I rode the range for 24 le "I left home in 1879 a boy of only sixteen. y first Job was to go off on a hog drive with a Methodist preacher. A boy friend and myself were to help him drive the hogs to the Conch° River to f,-tten, on tie shares. When we got here -Se put us to picking up pecans to pay the grocry bill. Te 4idn't IL.ve :luch clothing to start with :.nd by this…
Utah, Weber County, United States
· 1939-05-09
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Mitchell, Alice G., Vogel, George William
.14%0ERAL I7RITMS FROZECT Alice G. Mitchell Ogden, Utah Weber County May 9, 1939 Pioneer Personal History GEORGE WILLIAM VOGEL UTAH MIS 314 Revised 3-9-37 1. George Vogel 2. 319 Orpheum Apartments 3. Retired 4. Cooper, prior to Civil War, after Civil Jar he followed mining. 5. March 21, 1841 6, Piqua, Miami County, Ohio 7. 97 years. 8. Anna 7. Lucas, Piqua Ohio. She was his first wife and she died before he married again. Martha Roberts, June 10, 1896, Salt Lake City Temple. 11. Station Agent…
Montplelier County, United States, Vermont
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Beaudette, Mr. Robert
1. 7ri Robert Leaudette 59 Barre Street Montpelier, Vermont IL GLIM /ITO Two nen, were drinking beer. As the cloud of amok* which engulfed then lifted it revealed the features of two middle aged men. flank Pioardi was the larger of the two. Terhape it was the burden of an enormous stoma' whidh first eTOW your attention to him, but it was the nose with the eternal curl and the en -wring upper lip which made you un- comfortably conscious of a burning resentment behind the dark eyes. a7, I can…