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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 377 106 SO 024 390 AUTHOR Mims, Michelle, Ed.; And Others TITLE [Friends and Neighbors of Gary High School Students] . PUB DATE 88 NOTE 57p. AVAILABLE FROM Gary High School, Box 189, Gary, TX 75643 (single copies, $3; $6 a year). PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) Guides Non- Classroom Use (055) JOURNAL CIT Loblolly; v12 nl Win 1988 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS High Schools; *High School Students; *Interviews; Journalism Education; *Life Events; *Local History; *Personal Narratives; Social History; Social Studies; *Student Publications IDENTIFIERS *Texas ABSTRACT Produced by Gary High School (Texas) students, this issue presents three articles on individuals who share stories about their lives in Texas. In the first article, "Henry Earls, 100 + and Still Going Strong" (Darin Baker; Joe Ritter; Michelle Mims), Earls, a resident of Timpson (Texas), describes his work in a sawmill as a youth, his mother's cow chip tea, his life as a farmer, and his witnessing of the Ku Klux Klan in action. In the second article, . "Clotille Nutt, Versatile Friend" (Teri Alexander; Stacy Templeton; Grant Stephenson), Nutt, a resident of Carthage (Texas), tells stories of her life chopping cotton and working on her farm. In the final article, "Sandra Youngblood" (Sabrina Wilkerson; Joann Jones), Youngblood, a resident of Gary (Texas), provides stories of her childhood and how it differed from current student experiences that she observes during her work in the Gary High School cafeteria. (CK) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************

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ED 377 106 SO 024 390

AUTHOR Mims, Michelle, Ed.; And OthersTITLE [Friends and Neighbors of Gary High School

Students] .

PUB DATE 88NOTE 57p.

AVAILABLE FROM Gary High School, Box 189, Gary, TX 75643 (singlecopies, $3; $6 a year).

PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) GuidesNon- Classroom Use (055)

JOURNAL CIT Loblolly; v12 nl Win 1988

EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage.DESCRIPTORS High Schools; *High School Students; *Interviews;

Journalism Education; *Life Events; *Local History;*Personal Narratives; Social History; Social Studies;*Student Publications

IDENTIFIERS *Texas

ABSTRACTProduced by Gary High School (Texas) students, this

issue presents three articles on individuals who share stories abouttheir lives in Texas. In the first article, "Henry Earls, 100 + andStill Going Strong" (Darin Baker; Joe Ritter; Michelle Mims), Earls,a resident of Timpson (Texas), describes his work in a sawmill as ayouth, his mother's cow chip tea, his life as a farmer, and hiswitnessing of the Ku Klux Klan in action. In the second article,

. "Clotille Nutt, Versatile Friend" (Teri Alexander; Stacy Templeton;Grant Stephenson), Nutt, a resident of Carthage (Texas), tellsstories of her life chopping cotton and working on her farm. In thefinal article, "Sandra Youngblood" (Sabrina Wilkerson; Joann Jones),Youngblood, a resident of Gary (Texas), provides stories of herchildhood and how it differed from current student experiences thatshe observes during her work in the Gary High School cafeteria.(CK)

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Volume XII No. 1 Winter 1988

Contents

2 Henry Earls, 100 + and still goint strong -by: Darin Baker, Joe Ritter, and MichelleMims.

23 Clotille Nutt, versatile friend - bv: TeriAlexander, Stacy Templeton, and GrantStephenson.

40 Sandra Youngblood - by: Sabrina Wilkerson andJoann Jones.

Loblolly Staff

Michelle Mims, EditorTerri BridgesMary Ann DavisInez DowningArthur HeadEllen JanssenLisa JinkinsRonna JohnsonKathy JonesShelly Lieberman

Lincoln King, Advisor

Tamie MilfordChristi MusickLavon PorterShane Rains

Antoinette RouseyTiffany Smith

Lynn SpeerGrant StephensonStacy Templeton

Lori Vaughn

Loblolly Magazine is published by Loblolly, Inc.,students at Gary High School, Box 189, Gary, Texas75643. Circulation is by subscription andnewsstand. Subscriptions are 86.00 a year, singlecopies, $3.00. Some back issues are available.Copyright 1987 by the Loblolly, Inc.

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Henry Earls is a 101 year old Timpsonresident who has witnessed amazing changes duringa century of living. He has observed it all witha sharp eye and a keen memory. He proved to be agood friend as he shared some of the experienceshe has been through as his world changed. AleaseCopelin first lead us to Mr. Earls. Then StanleyYarbrough, our principal, urged us to visit withhim. We thank them both for a chance to make afriend and a chance to share his story with you.

Henry Earls

The life I lived, really started when I beganworking at a sawmill, called Bobo, when I was tenyears old. I worked at the sawmill for about 20years. I worked with a steer named Sam. Sam wastied to a cart, and I drove that cart for, I

guess, 3 years.I finally got a raise from 2 bits to 4 hits

(2 bits is a quarter). I made pretty good. I gota raise along with a different job, than what Ihad.

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We worked from 12 to 12, or as long as wecould see. We worked by lantern a lot because alot of work came after dark. I would clean upthose lanterns every morning and put them out forthat night. Then about 6:00 I would light thelanterns for the men who had to see by them. Thenthe next morning I would clean them again. Then Iwould piddle around on something else. Justwherever they needed me Like toting water to themen on the yard, or stacking lumber. They calledme the waterboy. I did all of this for, oh gosh,I don't know how long. As I grew older, I didmore work. They would give jobs from one thing toanother. If a hand dropped out or wasn't there oneday, I would kill his place for that day. I didthat quite often. I was the extra boy. I didthis for years and years. With the different jobsI had, the work was very light, there wasn'tanything to inconvenient that I couldn't do. So Idid that for a many of years off and on becausethey used me in so many different places. I

couldn't tell what I was going to do from one dayto the next. It was according to who dropped outthat day. I wasn't what you called a scaleworker, I wasn't a sawyer, but I dogged on thecage, over the backend.

Wherever I've been and whatever I've done,can tell you from 101 years to another 100 years.It is still that clear to me, of how I spent mytime working. Every job I had, I can still tellyou what I worked as. But I nevc_ aid get muchover 50 cents a day.

My dad was a hard worker, but he was what Icall a very poor money manager. Be only made a$1.00 a day. We would take the money we both madeto what we called a comnissarv. They hadeverything you could ask for in that store. Ithad everything you could wish for right there. Wenot our pay right there every night. You wouldfind what you wanted, if you had the money, and ifyou wanted to, you could save your checks ups andthe 10th of the month you could turn it in and

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they would give you a little cash. But there wasvery few people that ever saved enough to getcash. I never did get any money. As long as Iworked there, I never did get a paper to turn inwhen I needed a little cash. Everything was paidby a paper check. We would go to the commissaryand buy the things that the family needed. I wasonly ten years old and still in my shirttails.There were 15 kids in the family, those that couldwork, would work and take what we could get, andbe glad to get it.

I remember that I bought my first pair ofshoes when I was making two bits a day. My mothermade my skirts come down to the middle of my calf,and that's what I wore for clothes. I wasn't ableto buy pants. My mother made all of our garments.I got tired of looking like a girl, so I saved upmy two bits to buy me a pair of pants. I had togo around looking like a little girl, and I gottired of having to wear a shirt. So, I told myfather I was going to take part of my money andsave it and get me a pair of britches. Of course,they were knee pants, but I was still barefooted.All the girls were barefooted, and I wasbarefooted, and it looked so bad with me in myshirttails looking like a girl with no shoes. So,I saved enough of my quarters, that I bought me apair of britches and a pair of shoes. I wouldgive my daddy two bits one dav, and the next da" Iwould save my two hits. I got two bits every day.Every other day I saved two bits for my britchesand my shoes. I got this stuff at the commissary.

One day my mother sent my sister and me to thecommissary. When we came back it was dark and Ithad been raining. All of a sudden my sistersquealed; she was up ahead of me. She was lookingdown and said, "Look at that! Look at that!" Wecould see it around our feet. It was a haintgoing round and round our feet. It was as whiteas cotton. She split to run, and when she did, IgrabbJd her around the coattail. The first time Imissed it, but I guess I was running and got a

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hold of her coattail, and we ran a half a mile,maybe a mile. From then on, we never went to thecommissary at sundown again. If we didn't getwhat we needed in the day, we went to bed hungry.We didn't even care if we were sick.

Whenever we would get sick, we didn't knowwhat a doctor was. So my mother would go to thecow pasture and get some cow chips and put them ina pot and boil them. We would have to drink aboutthree or four cups of that, but it stopped thecough. If we had a fever, she would go back tothe pasture and get a bunch of hitterweed and putit on a sheet and wrap us up in it. When we wouldgo to bed, she would cover our head with it. Thenext morning our fever would be gone. But, Lord,that cow chip was rough. Sometimes she would makeus go out and run a horse until it relievedhimself. Then we would have to bring that freshin and she would make tea. We would try not toget sick very often.

The man I worked for, his name was BillyBobo. You can ask anyone about Bobo and they willtell, who he was, what t was, and where it is.They made a flag stats.n or train station, but itwas still called Billy Bobo's sawmill. When therailroad went through they combined the sawmilland station into one. I remember the railroadcoming through Timpson. It came through as anarrow gauge. It wouldn't travel what we call thestandard roan. When it came through, the workerswere only on one side. They moved from Shreveportto Houston.

They had woodyards every ten miles. Theywould carry wood from one place to another. Itthey ran out of wood they would stop, and folkswould cut some for the railroad. That's where wegot a little money, from the railroad. We wouldcut wood and haul it for four bits a cord. Theywould tally it up and pay us once a month. Wekept a count of how much wood we had cut. Everyman had his own woodyard, and he would put hisname on the cords. If I had a cord of wood my

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Henry Earl's mother and the cow chip tea

name would be on it, and it would be stacked in acertain spot, and yours would have your name on itand it would be stacked somewhere else. Therailroad paid that way.

So many things happened. Things that I onlyremember parts of, but not every bit. I rememherworking at a light plant in Timpson. I was theforeman there. I fired the boilers for a longtime. It was to generate electricity for Timpson.It used to be owned by Timpson. I also worked atthe cannery. A fellow named Meadows managed it.He worked for a company out of Dallas, or the manthat owned it, and I was working under Mr.Meadows.

We canned sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and thenstarted canning peas. But the water in Timpsonwas too hard. You couldn't cook peas or rice. Weused to try to can purple hull peas there, but younever could can peas on account of the water. I

also worked at cotton gins, along with all kinOsof other jobs.

When I worked back then, the labor was a lotharder, because it was all done by hand, and youcouldn't really take advantage of anything.Everythinc you did back then was done by hand.But now its all done by machinery. They cut thelabor down by using fancy machines. We would vork10 hours a day for 1.15, while working withshovels, and now you make 8 to 10 dollars andhour, sitting on machines for 8 hours. We alsoused hand cars a lot.

When I was younger, people were glad to see ajob come up. We didn't get much for what we weredoing, but we got a little, and we were happy toget the money we did. Now you walk the soles cff

. your feet before you can find a job to make alittle money.

Work has kept me going all these years. 3

can't just sit around all of the time. Every time

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I do I .tiff and then I really can't doanything. I think it has helped me live as long

as I have, it's kept me fit. Work helps everyone,it keeps their body going. My wife and the doctorare fussing at me now, because I work all of thetime. They don't understand me, I work a lot butI don't over do it. I have a chair with me so Ican sit 'down if I get tired. When it rains and Ican't go outside to do anything, I'm miserable thewhole time. My work is very important to me, I

like to take advantage of whatever I can do. I

just keep something convenient for me to sit on.My health isn't very good, so if I get tired ordizzy I don't have to go very far to sit down, andwhen I am rested again, I can start all over

again. I have to do the work that I can becauseyou can't hire anyone because they are toexpensive. People try to take advantage of you.If you can't do lomething you better just leave italone, because people know you can't do it andthey will charge you an arm and a leg to do it for

you. But it's good to do something, whether yourable or not, because there is always somethingthat needs to be done. I didn't get this houseand land paid for by just sitting around. I

worked everyday for 60 cents an hour, until it was

paid for.Our land came from my grandfather from when

he was a slave. Both my grandfather and fatherwere handed down from slavery time. Mygrandfather, transferred or gave himself his ownname. He said there were so many Hoopers, becauseeverything and a lot of the slaves were owned by

the Hoopers. He said that he wanted to givehimself a name besides Hooper, so he changed hisname to Oliver Earls. He just changed his whole .

name. When the slaves were freed most of themstayed with their masters. When they were freed,they would build and Arbor. It would look likesome kind of shelter, and if you would spend thenight. Then whatever amount of land you wanted is

what the government would give you. But now we

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have to bu" the land we want.My lanu has been in the family for over 100

years. I know this because I am 101 and mygrandfather inherited it. He had 150 acres and hegave some to my father, but he lost his because ofbad crops. So the banks closed him out. He was avery poor manager. There were some people thatgot 6, 7, or even 8 hundred acres. But they gotit after slavery ended.

There were 15 kids in my family. Out of 15,I'm the only one that's still living. My oldestsister died when she was 116 on her birthday. ButI do have a few nieces and nephews still alivethough. We have all lived to be pretty old. Mydaddy died when he was 90.

I married when I was 16, and now I'm livingwith my third wife. I outlived my first twowives. I have been married 85 years.

I have raised six girls and one boy. Threeof them live in Los Angeles, California and one inDallics. The rest of them have died, two of thegirls and the one boy.

All of my wives and I have always been realhappy families. We haven't really ever fought,besides a few arguments. I remember I slapped oneof my wives once. I was crazy. It was after wehad our first baby. You know how babies crawl andwiggle around. Well, one day it fell off the bedonto the floor and it put a little know on itshead. Sarcastically, I thought that was realgreat. The baby was crying and I slapped my wifefor letting It fall off the bed. Them the babyand her both were crying. I started crying. Itsounded terrible with all three of us crying.

After I married and left home, my daddy toldme to always have a nest egg to fall back on. Hesaid to save a nickel or two to help you out inhard times, like if you didn't have a job. I didwhat he said, he was right, because I've got apretty good record of it. If I would have spenteverything I had made, I wouldn't have saved alittle. I paid for my place sitting behind a

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horse at 60 cents an hour. I would ride thathorse 10 miles to a lob everyday and save a littleof the money.

I went to Smith Chapel Church for church andschool both. When I was in school there wereabout ten or twelve students in the class. Therewas just one class, too. My class only went tothe third grade, but I never did get out of thesecond grade. That old church has had a biginfluence on me in many different ways.

When my daddy was farming, he had one horseto use for his work. The horse's name was Henry.I was named after that horse.

When I was farming, I used 4 mules. Theydid my plowing. Well, really I used them foreverything. I used them for contract jobs, forlaying pipelines, and a little railroad work. I

always used my mules for farming. I never haveused a tractor, never learned how to drive one. I

didn't have any use for one, because you could dothe same job with mules, and it was a lot cheaper.What I couldn't do with mules, I used my hands. I

planted everything we ate, such as tomatoes, peas,potatoes and greens of all descriptions. Just thestuff to make a good meal. I still farm a little.I work my little garden and still use my twomules.

The only thing about farming, that I don'tlike is, that the deer run around and eat up allof my peas that I grow. I can't hardly keep thewild animals away from my crops and chickens. I

have to fix my chicken coop all of the time,because the coons have been eating my chickens.

I raised tomatoes at one time and I wouldtake them to Timpson, to the tomato sheds. Therewas one shed down at the corner, right of Timpson,where we would go. Let's see, there were foursheds altogether. There was one where the oldjailhouse in Timpson was. There was one rightthere, just when you come out of town, where theOld Santa Fe depot used to be. Plus, there wasone right up there at the end of the street at a

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A load of Henry Earl's tomatoes

feed store, owned by George Raines.The tomato sheds were just big, long

buildings about 100 feet long, maybe longer. Theywere all full of bins. They were right beside therailroad. You just put them off in those bins,and they would load them right into the boxcars.First they were graded then they were put on along table and girls would grade them and put themin baskets. We all grew them for aifferentcompanies, but they got where they could grow themin the Valley cheaper than they could grow themhere, and the Valley took over.

I really can't name all the big changes I'veseen throughout my life because there have been somany. I've been through every change in thiscountry. It's hard to really pick one majorchange. I guess really the wages have changed themost. Back when I was young the labor was cheap.I have worked at cotton gins for $1.00 a day, andI've worked for the railroad for $1.15 a day. Sosee, the wages have really changed from then tonow. I've been a part of every change that hasbeen brought up.

Transportation has changed a lot, I rememberwalking 5, 6, and 7 miles with a light over myhead. I had to make a pine torch to see how toget to work on my little trail. I have walkedmany a mile by a light. I went to work at 6o'clock, and would get off at 6 o'clock. We wouldhave to get up at 2 and 3 o'clock in the morningto get ready. My wife would always get up withme. She would fix my lunch the night before, but

A got up to fix my breakfast so I could eat it. I

would get my torch ready afterwards.One of my daughters was 10 years old before

she ever really knew she had a daddy, because Iwould get up when she was asleep and then I wouldget home when she was asleep. All because of thehours I had to work and the time it took me to getthere.

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There has been so many changes that it justdon't look real, because things have changed somush from what it used to be. Things are stillchanging and always will change.

I really think things even out today, becauseof the wages and prices, and the size of families.Back when I was young the wages were low and theprices were also low, but now wages are higher, soprices are higher also. Back then you had morechildren. Now you have less children, but youhave all of the modern conveniences likeelectricity, telephone, and other so callednecessities to make up for children. So thingsreally work out evenly.

I didn't go to school past the second grade,but my children went all the way through school.They did there hoiework by the light from thefireplace because we didn't have any electricity.

So many things have. changed it's like a totaldifferent world. We didn't have lights,television, or radios. We didn't even havecaskets. When you needed one someone made it outof a pine tree.

I remember that I always was doing somethingafter work and on my days off I would farm mostly.You could only borrow 25 dollars from the bank. I

would take most of that to farm with, for food. I

would pay the bank off with what I made at work.The banks are a lot different too.

I also remember putting 3 or 4 of my mulestogether, and doing what was called a Fresno, ormoving dirt, for building roads. I helped buildthe road from Tenaha to Nacogdoches with mules. I

also helped on the road from Timpson to Center,grading roads with the mules. But, now they do itwith machines. Things are a lot different now _

from the way it was back then.There really isn't that much difference in

the times. We didn't make much, but things didn't.cost as much. You make a whole lot more now, butyou also spend a lot. The cost of living istriple of what it used to be. I remember when I

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used to be able to buy overalls for 6 bits or adollar, but now you pay 16 or 17 dollars for them.Flannel shirts were anywhere from 2 bits to 35cents. Like I said, we didn't get paid much forwhat we did, but we also didn't have to pay muchfor what we got. You could buy a 50 pound bag offlour for $1.00, a 20 lb..bag of sugar for $1.00,25 lbs. of rice for $1.00, and bacon was 5 cents apound. All the meats were. You could getsardines anywhere from 3 to 5 cents a box.

I never really went hunting, except when wewould get possums for meat. I've been possumhunting a many a night. My first wife and I usedto go possum hunting, catch 3 or 4, and take themhome to clean them up, and store them for times weneeded them.

I've never really been a fisherman either. I

didn't have the patience to sit there to see ifthey were going to bite or not. My wife will sitthere for hours at a time in one spot thinkingthat a fish is going to bite, but I was alwaysready to leave. I couldn't sit in one place for along time, I always had to be moving.

I don't remember what year it was, but I canremember when the first cars came out. Then, thesteering wheel was on the right side, and therewere very few cars around. Even the doctorsdidn't have any cars. I can remember the firstcar that came to Timpson, when everyone else hadhorses and buggies.

Every day when Lois came home, I had to takeher horse down to the creek and give him a bath,every day. When she got home I had to carry thathorse down to the water and clean him until youcouldn't see a speck of dirt on him. If I carriedthat horse back with a stain on it, she would say,"Well, you didn't do a good job today." and Iwould have to go back the next day and do that jobover. There weren't any cars, just horses andbuggies. There were horses in Timpson for a longtime.

The first car I ever drove was a T-model

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Ford. I IN.- just beginning to learn how to drive.There were 3 peddles on the floorboard; reverse,low, and stop. One day, I had the car in the carhouse. I was going to back out and I lost controlof it and went through the back of the house andripped off the top of the car. I finally stoppedout in a pasture, Boy that has been a long time.

I never had a driver's license and stilldon't, but I do drive a little. I've only had oneticket. The police officer asked me if I had adriver's license and I said, "No sir." He said,"Well, I'm real sorry.", and he handed me a ticket

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for $25.00. I went up to the court house to paythe ticket the next day, and I told the judge thatI needed to take care of a ticket. He said,"Well, what would you like to do about it?" I

said, " I would like to square you up." He said,"No you can't square me up." So, I had to pay theticket. I still drive a little but I try not tobreak the law. If you know you're doing wrong,you shouldn't do it. So, I don't drive unless Ihave to.

I do remember the moonshining in Timpson.My brother made enough moonshine to float a carfrom here to Nacogdoches, or further. He lived inBobo, and he had moonshine stills set up all overthose woods. I remember one time when I wasalways so scared to do anything until I was grown.I would go out there at night when they weremaking whiskey and it was sour. One day I wasgoing to trick my brother and going to check hiscoils. Late that afternoon my brother, one oftwo, fell and sprained his ankle. So, I said,"Well, I'll go up there and check on the whiskey."So, I tried to go up there that morning, and mybrother said, "No, let me go." I said, "Okay,just take off."

Well, he went on up there and the law wasstashed out in the woods. My brother was down onhis belly, and he had about five barrels. He gotdown on his stomach and then he got a drink, andsaid, "This is so good." Then he got on his kneesand took another big sip. He was looking allaround, and couldn't see anyone, but the law wasstanding behind a tree not far from him. Then thelaw said, "Have you got enough?" He jumped up andsaid, "NO," and took one sip, and then another.When he got through drinking my brother was sounnerved that he couldn'L get up. The law reacheddown and picked him up and brought him to myhouse. The law asked, "Uncle, what are you doing

' letting these folks make whiskey around yourhouse? Whatever you say better be the truth!" I

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The other an told him to give me a chance, but Ibetter be _ening the truth. I said, "Now, it'slike this. Do you see that fence over there?Over here is mine, and the other side belongs to awhite man in town. Now if they've gotten over inmy field, I will move them out, but I couldn'tmove them off anybody else's woods." Anyway, thelaw took everyone that was making whiskey, ormash, off to Beaumont. It was two of my brothers,and three nephews, and that were all making thatmash whiskey on the same stills. Mash is what wecalled it. There were five stills left sittingright there where they were found, so we had toput all that stuff up.

To make mash whiskey, we would buy a chop,and a pound of sugar, and pour it in a barrel andstir it until it mixes good. We used chops andmash. If we wanted corn whiskey, we used chops.

Chops are corn that is ground up. You putthat on and leave it for seven or eight days andit looks like you have a fire under there and itboils. When it quits boiling, it is ready to makewhiskey with. I was always scared to do anythingthat a white man was involved in. I didn't doanything that I would get in trouble for, but mybrother would do anything to make a dollar. Hedidn't even care if he was violating the law.

I never did enjoy any of that whiskey. Ididn't drink. I got drunk one time in my life,and that was the last for me. I was the worsthuman in the world, that one time I drank. I'vedrunk enough cow chip tea to float a car, Ireckon. All of us together have. My mother madeby the gallon. My mother would go around with ahot cup of that tea. It was hot and it had anodor. That's what we had back in those days. Wewere glad when those days passed.

I also remember seeing the Ku Klux Klan atwork in Shelby County. I was working for a man atone time that was a member of the Ku Klan Klan.There was one white gentleman up there that wasmessing around with another man's wife, but I

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can't recall his name. Anyway, the Ku Klux Klangot him, and he was white. I was working at whatwe called a Light Plant one night and was firing aboiler when they came out there and tarred theman. They stripped him butt-naA and poured warmtar all over him, then rubbed feathers all overhim. After that, they turned him loose. He hadfeathers from his neck to his feet and looked likea frizzly chicken. He went to the doctor's officeto get the doctor to get the tar off him but thedoctor wouldn't do a thing for him. Then the mainman, who was from Lufkin, cut him right across thestomach. The man hollered real loud. The mainman said he was going to cut his guts out. Then,they proceeded to tar and feather him.

I also saw one man hung. There was a whitegentleman who lived out where we called MountGillion. He was up there is the colored quartersand had been drinking. He was up there at a cafe.They had a fish that Saturday night, that was ararity. This man was sitting down eating a fishsandwich, and he bought a sandwich for everybodythat came in there. But a particular boy came inthere and the man bought him a sandwich. He atethe sandwich and hung around outside in the darkwaiting for the white man to come out. When hefinally did, the boy hit him with a piece of 2 by4 and knocked him out and robbed him. This boyleft and ran off and went to Houston. Before hecame back, he called another fellow here inTimpson and asked how everything was going. Thiscolored man told him that everything was okay. Hesaid that he would be through Timpson on thatfour-day train. They ran a four-day train about5:00 in the morning going from Houston toShreveport. He said that he would be on thattrain that night. So that night when he camthrough, that colored man had already told the lawthat he was coming. So the law was watching forhim. When he did finally arrive, the law lockedhim up. So the next day because the jail was sohot from the sun, they moved him to San Augustine.

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Well, he knocked a jailer in the head and gotaway. And so a fellow by the name of Ben Powelland few others were watching the roads everywherefor him. They caught him about two miles out ofTimpsen and carried him to Center and locked himup. They had a quick trial and hung him the nextday. They hung him in the courtyard on the CenterSquare. I went and saw it. Well, the fact is,the guy was kind of in my family. But they didhang him. They had a gallow built with a trapdoor. I wouldn't know how they tie that knot, butthey put that rope around your neck and you fallthrough that trap door about four feet. And whenyou hit the end of that rope, the knot would breakyour neck. That was right on the enter Square,about where the tax office is now. There is anoak tree standing in its place.

A man went to pick up his body, and theywanted to kill the man that did this. If ithadn't been for a man named Ed McElroy they wouldhave.

Some friends of the man that the boy hit werefrom Center. One in particular was a well-to-dowhite fellow. They got the boy's body which hadnot been dead for more than ten minutes. Theydrug him and someone shot him in the leg. The manthat had come to pick up the body was his uncle.That was a terrible day. Yeah, I saw that rightin Center.

Because of the outfits that the Ku Klux Klanwore, you could not see anything but their faces.They wore sort of something like a jacket whichcovered them from their head to their feet. Youcouldn't see anything but their eyes. They had abig, old cap on, kind of like a woman's bonnet.Butt they had a on a long gown, so you couldn'ttell who they were. I saw these men three timesbecause I worked at night. They would turn themloose on the square. There used to be a doctorhere. He must have been one of the members, but Ireally don't know for sure. If they went to himhe wouldn't get that tar off of them. He didn't

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The Klan in action

even pay them any attention. One fellow they didnot tar, instead, they put sorgum syrup on him andthen feathered him. He was also interfering withanother man's wife.

Only one of the three people that was tarredand feathered was black. The Ku Klux Klan wentafter this black fellow and they could not catchhim. He out ran them in a horse and buggy.

Everything has sure changed since those days.

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Clotille Nutt is our friend and neighbor.She is also an amazing lady. Ciotille hasenending talent and energy to do many things. Sheis a good story teller, and shared much of herlife with us

Clotille Ross Nutt

I was born on October 23, 1910, in PanolaCounty, Texas, five miles outside of Clayton andfrom where I went to school. My parents livedclose to both of their parents. 1 went to schoolwith my aunts and uncles for three years. Mygranddaddy took us to school in a surrey. Thesurrey had curtains on the sides and we traveledfive miles to school in it. We lived by mygrandparents until my daddy thought it was toomuch. So, he bought fifty acres of land a milefrom Clayton and built a home over there. Afterthat, we only had to walk a mile to school. Afterwe started school we had to milk four or five cowsin the morning and then walk a mile to school. Wecarried our lunch in a sack. We had syrup and abiscuit, ham and a biscuit, and maybe an egg and abiscuit, and that was what we had for our lunch.Sometimes my mother would make some little sugarpies. She'd roll out a piece of crust and putsome sugar and butter on it and lightly bake it.That's what we had for something sweet. After Ifinished high school in 1929, I got married when Iwas 18. I wanted to start something for myhusband and me. My maiden name was Clotille Ross.My daddy was Commissioner of Panola County for sixor seven terms. During the eighth term he tooksick. In October, he slipped down on a load ofhay, hit the wagon wheel, and cracked some ribs.That winter it was very bad and my father wouldnot go to the doctor. The cold winter caused himto get very ill and he developed cancer. Thedoctor said that it was the bruise that caused thecancer. He was down just about one year, and diedin September of the following year. He suffered

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to death. stayed at the hospital with him manytimes while he was ,n his death bed.

Well, we had to work when we got old enoughto do anything. When I was about nine years old Iwas at just the right age. My daddy would bekilling hogs he'd tell me and my sister to run andget so-and-so, He'd tell us to go get boilers andpans to put the trimmings in. My daddy raisedthem on skim milk and stuff out of the garden allthrough the summer. Then, he would plant peanutsand sweet potatoes and let the hogs root them, sothey'd fatten up. Three weeks before, he wouldput them up in a pen and feed them corn becausepeanuts and sweet potatoes would make their meatflabby, and corn hardens it. They're easier towork with whft you do that. We would kill ourhogs and would have our meat from one year to thenext, plus we had our shortening. Most all we hadto buy was sugar, flour, black pepper, and stufflike that.

We chopped cotton through the surmer. I havechopped cotton many-a-day for fifty cer..s a bale.We made our mops out of corn shucks. We wouldsprinkle ashes on the floor and scrub with thembecause they clean it just ,ike everything else.Then we would rinse it good and you'd have theprettiest floors. Girl, listen, we made every bitof the soap and stuff we used out of the hogtrimmings and cracklings that got old. We'd makecrackling bread and lye soap with it and I stillmake lye soap. We had pretty floors because wekept them scrubbed. The old house where we livedafter we moved closer to Clayton is where I'mtalking about now. We worked hard, I'm tellingyou. The maddest I ever got at my daddy I guesswas the Fourth of July and hon he had us settingout potato vines. Then, you'd go and cut yourvine off your potatoes where you'd put them outand set out your vines and that's what made yourbaking potatoes. They would make a pretty, smoothpotato. The others would be the rough ones thatwere for the hogs and cows. Our cows would eat a

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many sweet potatoes, but we would have to chopthem up. And work, we'd pull corn, and chop andpick cotton. I'll tell you right now, my sistercould beat me at picking cotton and I could beather at chopping. That's how we worked and paidfor the land and all. But anyway, we make our ownmops and cedar buckets. Where we lived, we had awater shelf. This hall went through the house andon the side in the back, we had a water shelf.That's where we kept our water buckets, wash pans,and our towels hung up on a cedar board. OnSaturday our lob was to get brick dust and scrubthe rings in uhe water bucket to make them look

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real brit, for Sunday.With all the chores we had to do, there was no

time to be mean to each other. On Saturdayevenings, though, they'd let us go to the canepatch and my granddaddy would say, "Now you kidsgo on and help yourself." My granddaddy had someof the finest qualities. He was veryconservat:e. We'd go get our cane and sit downand chew o! it. I was the oldest on both sides,so I was pretty well rotten. Working was the onlyway we had of making a living. The stuff we grewwas the or.h.ly source of money we had. later, webegan to tomatoes, that was a money maker,which wou'i give us more money. It was not manyyears I ra-sed tomatoes at home.

Afte my husband and me raised tomatoes, wedid not raise them for several years after we gotmarried. When my family started raising tomatoesagain, so did we. During the war my husband saidthat we h. :d got to where we have made a completefailure of these tomatoes. Then, we bought abouta hundred acres of land off the Dean Place. Wedid not have enough to pay it out, but we finallymade enough to finish the payments. Then, webought this other hundred acres and we had apretty good down payment. At this time you couldbuy land for ten dollars an acre. We gave athousand dollars for the first ninety-one acres ofland we bought. The next hundred acres we boughtcost twelve hundred dollars. And now look whatland is worth.

My husband and me was in the dairy businesstwenty-two years. We milked cows, sold milk, andmade a good living at that. We bought fourhundred and seventy-seven acres in Tenaha. Wecouldn't find any more land around here to buy.We were in the dairy business and we wereincreasing in cattle all the time. So we neededmore land. I was doing texture work at a houseclose to the land we bought and I found out thatthis land was for sale. I went home and told myhusband about it that night. My husband said he

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didn't kr if we could master that or not becauseit was twe,:y seven thousand dollars. So, he wentand talked to the banker. The banker told himthat he would have to look at it and try see whathe could do as soon as possible because we neededthe land and fast. There was another guy thatwanted to buy this land also, so, we had to workto get the money fast. The banker finally let ushave the money. Charles, our oldest son, wantedto buy half interest in it. He had been pipelining and nad enough money to make his downpayment. This helped us to get all the land. Westill own this land today. My husband passed awayin 1978. Before he got sick, we had a big bunchof cows and were in the Charolais business. Itold him, "Daddy, let's just sell the Charolaiscows because you're not able to see after and workwith them." I didn't think he was ever going toturn loose and sell the cows, but he finallyrealized that he wasn't able to tend to them.Because of this he sold them. After they weresold, we put the money into equity. I was 62whenever we went out of the dairy business and hesaid that we had just milked long enough. Wewould have had to build a new barn and at our agehe didn't think it would be profitable, so we soldour dairy cows. We had put our money in equity,our dairy cattle, the Credit Union in Houston, andthe Milk Credit Union. So, when my husband soldhis Charolais cows, we withdrew the interest fromour savings. His doctor bills were justoutrageous. I kept him at the hospital inCarthage for four months and two days. I stayedthere night and day with him and would come homein the evenings maybe around five o'clock whilehis sister would come sit with him. I would comehome to see about the cows and things we hadthere. My son stopped by and saw about the oxen.My husband's doctor bill was $12,224. Before myhusband passed away, we lacked $700 having theplace paid off. My son withdrew his half in itbecause he wanted to buy the Dairy Queen and a

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home in Center. I told him if he could see afterthe farm I could see about this here. I've livedat this house for seven years by myself and helpedmake the payment on that place, but we lackedthirteen thousand dollars having the farm paidout. Well, it just nearly worried him to deathbecause he was leaving me with a bigresponsibility. I said, "Daddy, don't worry aboutit. I'm the type not to worry. I don't worrybecause there is always a way out if you managethings right. Don't worry about it. If I can'tpay for it and the children don't want it badenough to pay it off, then I'll sell the thing anddivide the money." That kindly eased his mind.In May of '79 after he passed away we got a chanceto lease it for lignite and I paid the farm off.It's all in the clear now, but I'm still workingjust like I did before he passed away. I'm 76years old and I enjoy working. I stay busy and Idon't get upset about things such as indebtednessbecause there's always a way out. My husband andI got along just fine. We had five children,three boys and two girls. We had a big familycounting our sixteen grandchildren and twelvegreat-grandchildren. I worked even with such alarge family of seven. I did texture work when Ididn't have anything else to help him with. I'dgo to the field and work just like he did. I waswith him everywhere he went. When we got out ofthe dairy, we had some cows at the farm and someat the place we were living in then. We'd tend tothese then we'd go to the farm and tend to those.We had a little Mexican shack at the farm. Wekept Mexicans in. It had a little stove,refrigerator, and other things in it. If it gotcold it had heaters. We'd go down there and heatit up and fix us something to eat. We justenjoyed life. Buford wasn't but 68 when he died.

My husband bought some land in Carthage wherewe were going to build houses and sell them.Well, we built one and we got into it. My sisterlived in Carthage and her husband was a painter.

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He wouldn't show me how to do nothing and it mademe mad. So, she came over one Saturday eveningand said, "Clo, how are ya'll gonna fix thewalls?" I said, "Paper them, I guess." Wealready had the sheetrock up. "Well," she said,"that takes brains as well as work." I said, "Ohmy goodness! I probably can't do it." Anyway Igot it taped out and floated. This was how it wassupposed to be. I told my husband and he said,"Well, whatever." I said, "Daddy, we'll start inthe bathroom and i- we see we can't do it thenwe'll hire somebody to do it." Boy, I'll tellyou, it was bad when we got into that. You see,he's had back problems ever since he was two yearsold. He had slow fever, which settled in hisback, and he couldn't get around very well. Westarted with the ceiling in the bathroom and therewere four pieces we had cut. We were going to putit up, but, honey, we never did get the first oneup. I got so tickled, I couldn't help but thinkabout what Hazel had told me. He said, "What inthe world are you laughing at?" I said, "We justhaven't got the brains!" He said, "Boy, I'll tellyou what, I just can't turn it loose. You'll haveto get someone else to paper it." Well, I tookWanda, my oldest daughter, and hon, we paperedthat house. She was quick and little but I'd showher how and we did it. I did not have anyequipment or anything like they have to tape andfloat now a days. I had to use a syrup can lid.I took the lid off from the can and cut the rimoff from around it. Then, I smoothed it downlevel and bent it half way up. And that is what Iused to put up my first paper with. I had to usethis type of equipment until I could afford to buybetter tools to work with. I worked at hundredthousand homes doing this. Using the bettertools, people would charge extreme prices to paperhouses on Caledonia Lake. Even so, I enjoyedpapering, painting, taping, floating, andtexturing. I did a little of all kinds. I guessthere is not anything that I just do not enjoy. I

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really like working. Everyone says that it iswork that keeps you going. After Dr. Rappaporthad finished my kidney stones, he said that Icould go back home and go to work. This wouldkeep me from feeling sorry for myself and I wouldget better faster.

I believe that I have been blessed. I havenever been really sick, but I have had sixoperations. I had to have some kidney stonesremoved. The kind of work I had been doing wasover for the moment. My operations had made myarm very sore and I way unable to continue what Ihad been doing. I co 1 still bake, piece Guilts,

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and do so. little things around the house. So,when the Lord gets ready for me, I will have somequilts saved up for my children.

My sister said just the other day, "There isjust two of us left." There were four in ourfamily/three girls and one boy. My brother wasjust six years old when Buford and I got married.As he got older, he helped me with many things.

After Buford and I were married, we went towork for ourselves. I went to Work choppingcotton on the Monday after we got married onSaturday.

Back then we would build playhouses out inthe woods for entertainment. We would rake strawup and make rooms, straw beds, chairs, and otherthings with it. We had a lot of friends to helpus.

I remember one time when I had a friend namedMyrtle. She had her doll out in the woods. Itwas just a rag doll. Our teacher in school hadassigned us to write an autobiography of our lifeand we didn't really know what that meant. Myrtlesaid, "Oh, I forget my doll and left it out in thewoods. I bet the buzzards have eaten it up.Isn't that what you'd put in an autobiography?"The teacher just laughed and laughed.

A week ago yesterday I bought me four calves.I feed them on the bottle. I've also been workingin my garden. I've already started planting mysquash in cups and they have come up. Now I'mgoing to put them out in the field. I have beenworking since January getting all the things readyto plant in the field. My squash and tomatoes areready to be planted now. I've got cucumber,watermelons, cantaloupes, cabbage, a little bit ofeverything. I planted them a little late in cups.They are not supposed to be put in the field untilthe frost has passed, but when it is time toplant, I will have everything ready to go. I'velearned that if you're gonna sell anything you'vegot to have it early. We were early last year,and we sold quite a bit of stuff. I planted

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everything in cups just like I did last year, butthere's been a difference this year. I haven'tbeen able to understand or figure out the weather.The humidity hasn't been like it was last year.You have to be careful about watering yourvegetables while they're still in the cups. Onetime I got a batch of mine too wet an' they weretoo damp to grow. I had to come back and put somemore seeds in the cups. You have to watch verycarefully and learn how to do this before you canbe successful with it.

During the day I piece quilts and catch upwith other things. I cook dinner for two meneveryday and also milk my cows. I get up at fiveo'clock every morning and go all day long.Yesterday, I put out onions. I already had someout, but it rained so much until they drowned andthe plants were killed. So, now I have to resetthem, but I'm only doing a few of them.

I go all day long. When I go to bed atnight, I go to sleep. You've always heard the oldsaying, Early to bed, early to rise, makes a manhealthy, wealthy, and wise. So, that's what I do.

I have to study to learn how to grow all myvegetables. I even have books that I read to helpme out. This is the kind of life I enjoy. I

don't care anything about being a runabout. Juststaying home and working is fine with me.

Hon, when I was at home, we/farmed. That'sthe only way we had of making any money. I guessthat's the reason I've learned to manage thingslike I do, because I grew up learning how to dothese things. When we bought our first ninety-oneacres, everybody said, "You won't pay for it".But you know, if you set your mind and heart tothings, such as making ends meet, you usuallysucceed. My daddy was the one who educated me andmy sisters. He told me, "Ya'll have done betterthan any of the children and prospered is what hemeant".

My middle sister and her husband inheritedmost of their land. I don't think they bought but

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twenty acres. His people passed away and heiredtheir land. My baby sister and her family onlyowned one acre of land, which was the one theirhouse was on. My husband and I paid for quite abit of land. We worked and milked cows to pay itoff.

Here recently, I went up to a dairy farm andgot three full blooded cows. Two Holstein and onefull blooded Brown Swiss calf. I also bought me awhite-faced calf which I'm gonna make pay for theraising of the others. I think I can do it.He's a pretty thing. He's a real good littlebuddy and the others are doing so good. I gotthem a week ago, yesterday. I think I'm going tobuy me one more, and that will make me twenty-fivehead that I have bought and raised on the bottle.I am gonna buy one more. This man said in thelast of June, July, and August are the best timesto buy calves. They're cheaper then, than anyother time. So, that's when I'm planning on beingin the business in full swing. I'll get meseveral more because I have really enjoyed foolingwith these calves. My son also helps me in anyway possible. He comes over every day. I thenfix lunch for him and the Mexican. And anything Ihave not done until then, he does for me. Calvesaren't a real big trouble. I feed them twice a

day. In the morning I try to feed them by 7:30and again by 5:00 in the afternoon. I make up thecalves milk myself. I make it the sametemperature as regular cows milk. I make it upwith warm water and powdered milk. I got thesecalves over in Keatchie when they were only threedays old. Now, they are ,:wo weeks old and alrladyon the bottle and are no trouble at all. Thefirst week you get calves you have to feed themhalf the feed. Then, you begin increasing theiramount until they are able to eat a full feeding.If you feed the calves a full amount of food whenyou first get them it will scour the calves everytime because it is too rich for them. I start off

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feeding my calves half the amount and increase the

amount as they grow. The cup I feed my cows inshows how much to feed the calves.

A funny thing about me is that I never tire.People say that they don't know how I go and doeverything that I do. I tell them that I enjoy itvery much. I have worked my flower beds out this

week. I have hoed out all the weeds and resetsome of my rose bushes. Right now I'm gettingready to fix a place for my Dahlias. I bought aCamellia the other day and set it out thismorning. Today was a very good day to transplantand set out flowers. So, that is what I have beendoing lately. In the third chapter ofEcclesiastics it says that there is a time foreverything. I have this almanac at home thattells everything on planting. It tells whenbearing days are, when plants won't bear anything,and when not to plant anything. It tells youmostly anything you need to know about planting.I go by it because I believe that there aresmarter people that me. The book is hardly everwrong with its predictions. These are some of themany things I enjoy doing each day to help passthe time and have something to be proud of.

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Sandra Youngblood has lived in Gary since she

was married. She is the mother of past andpresent Gary students. One daughter, Lori, was amember of the original Loblolly staff in 1973,when we got started. Sandra Youngblood now -worksin the school cafeteria and so we see this friend

everyday.

Sandra Youngblood

I was born in a small town in west Texas nearAbilene, in a little house on the Brazos River.The doctor had to walk a log to get to the house.I always thought that was funny. My favoritecousin was told the same story. She's nine monthsolder that I am, and ended up marring my husband'syoungest brother. After all these years we arestill favorite cousins and sisters-in-law. Alsoone of her sisters married another brother. So wewere all double kin. It's interesting.

I met my husband at his cousins house inPlainview. He had come in from the wheat harvestup in the Dakotas. He was 25 and I was 16. Thatwas young but it lasted 32 years. We moved herewhere his people are.

I lived my younger life in a trailer and wemoved three or four times a year. It's very hardon a child in school. The books are not the samefrom town to town. That's not fair. It should bethe same book for every subject, at least in thewhole state.

My father made a good living as a boilermaker in the union. We made two trips toCalifornia when I was young, but mostly movedaround Texas and the west. Growing up in the'40's was a lot like now. We liked the same foodskids like now, junk food. Only we didn't haveaccess to as much. There's so much more varietyof things now.

We always celebrated every thing that camealong. We had a big family and circle of friends.We loved Christmas dearly. We always hung a

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stocking. We would try to go .jack to Abilene(home), no matter where we were. All the auntsand uncles came in to grandmothers. Everyonebrought gifts and all sorts of sweets. We alwayshad Santa on Christmas Eve, and then we'd have abig dinner on Christmas and everyone had to gohome that evening.

We always had chicken dressing, turkey,cranberry sauce, cakes, pies, and candy. We stillhave all the traditional foods now. New Years isa good day too. We always repeat Christmas menusplus black eyed peas and salt jowl for luck.

Easter we repeated the big reunions. We werealways ready for that. We'd all get together andhad a big time. Most of the time it's at my homenow. I have a bigger house. We have ice creamsuppers, barbecues, wiener roasts, lust anythingto bring everyone together. We enjoy one another.We were always like that growing up. The womenliked to talk, and the men watched ball games, orplayed dominoes or had volley hall game or touchfootball. Our families have gotten so big we goto the lake a lot of to a park.

The suhiect of clothes over the Years isfunny. It goes a full circle. The fashions when Iwas a teenager are a lot like now except for bigcircle skirts. we had can-can petticoats andpoodles on the skirts. Shoes that tied werepopular and penny loafers with socks. I refusedto wear socks. I felt like you looked sill". I

still don't like socks with dresses. Not manywore blue leans or pants. I am glad we do now.

My mother must have been horn before hertime. She loved purple or lavender and prettyflowered materials. Not many wore these things.She wore some pretty flowered silk taffetadresses. She liked pants, but no one wore any.They weren't too lady like. The c'resses andskirts have gone from mid calf to the knees tomini, back to knee, and mid calf. Shoes float allover the style list. I love the new colors wehave now it everything. We have a huge selection

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of styles nd colors now. We didn't always,especiall} _ you were large.

I guess I was very fortunate. We alwayslived in town. We had an allowance. We went toseveral movies a week. We had the swimming pools,parks, and skating to go to.

Only thing aggravating I can remember is wemoved two or three times a year. It was hard onschool kids. The school:, would not have the samebooks in each subiect. Some times you couldn'ttake your subject because they didn't teach thatin your school or your class.

We had a Hudson car when I was a teenager inthe '50's. Most of you will say, a what? That'sjust like my kids do. They don't make them anymore. I don't know why. It was a good car.After I got married my dad ',ought a new one. Theywere killed in it not long after that. A trainhit them in Snyder, Texas. It was a very sad timein my life. I had a good husband and a beautifulbaby girl and life goes on for all of us.

I probably brought the first television intothis part of the country. It was Dad's. I had aliving room full of people every night. I did gettired of company every night. We didn't even haverunning water, but we had a television. Not toomany people had running water out in the countrythen. And they had not had electricity for toolong a time. That was hard for me to believe.I've had electricity all my life.

We got a telephone shortly after we movedinto our own home. I never saw a crank telephonebefore I came here. Two little ladies ran it andthey knew everything that went on. You just hadto call and ask where the fire was, who was sick,etc. One time I got tired of this gossipy oldwoman that stayed on the phone, so you couldn'tcall out. I told her so. Party lines wereterrible. Anyway she turned out to be thesister's aunt, and the aunt told them I had cussedher out. And I had not. I thought about it alittle bit.

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One of my huchand's aunt's was raised upwithout all this good stuff we take for granted.When her husband bought her a washer he had to runit. She was scared of it. She only used her ironon a big table instead of an ironing board. Shedidn't like the television either.

Young people in the '40's didn't have as manythings to do or get into as they do now. Kidsloved the drive-in's, cafes, and drive-in movies.They'd get a big load of kids in a car and all goto the movies. Sometimes it would be only onedollar a car load. Some kids even got in thetrunk. Now you can't find a drive-in cafe ormovie. I never thought movies would drop off likethey have. But we didn't have television then.

We loved to double date a lot. Sometimes agroup is even more fun. A lot of parents wantedtheir kids to double date, especially if you werea girl. Parents hated you staying out late. Theydidn't like dances, and parties were very strict.My country cousins went to musicals and dancingparties, and baseball games.

Most parents expected their children to get acollege education or business school. My fatherwanted me to go to Draughns Business College atAbilene, Texas. I messed that up by gettingmarried at 16. My father never got to go tocollege. He missed it. I wanted mine to go also,but I required them to graduate from high school.I have one still in high school.

Most fathers thought their sons should go tocollege to succeed. The girls, it wouldn't matterso much. They'd be house wives. If they wentthey should be teachers. They shouldn't go intothings that men did.

Most schools I went to didn't havekindergarten. We always had to go 12 years. Theytried changing the hours of schools or have schoolall year. I hope that never comes to pass. Kidsneed summer and so do the teachers.

I don't remember too much of my youngeryears. I do remember being in the second grade

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and passing the kindergarten windows and seeingall the play things. I envied my brother who wasin there. Then it was play more than now.

When we were in junior high and high schoolyou always had two study halls a day. Teacher'sstudy hall was one form of punishment. You gotdemerits and you didn't want them. Some gavelicks for punishment. When I was younger I got myhands spanked with a ruler and had to standoutside in the hall, just because I wanted to playsomething better than two sticks. I was in the

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third grade. Our school days started with a briskwalk across town to school. If you lived in thecity limits you had to walk. I never lived whereI had to ride a bus.

We seemed to always attend a large school.So you had to walk a lot between classes. I

remember one Colorado Springs school that was twostories. I had a locker on one end and classes onthe bottom and top, at the other end. You werenot allowed to take any other book in that class,but for that class. Now that was tough. I was inthe tenth grade. I never ate in a schoolcafeteria. We always had open campus.

It seemed like teachers were stricter in thepast than they are now. We always had homework.And I mean you worked until ten o'clock on it.Different schools have different systems and theteachers have to abL-e. I went to six highschools in my two and a half high school years.Then I got married, came to East Texas, and I'vebeen here ever since.

I remember three teachers most. One was asixth grade teacher in Sweetwater. She was a

history teacher and had the most beautifulhandwriting. She was left handed. She was sostrict, but I really learned from her. And I

respected her. One teacher taught me the secretof algebra and it was a breeze for me then. Andalso I had one very helpful teacher in English andlanguages. I really feel like I have forgottenmore than I have ever learned.

The teachers now have a lot more freedom inteaching and living too. They had to obeystricter rules then than now about clothes, modeof living, or company they kept. They had to beabove reproach.

There used to be closer family relationshipsthan we have now. It's odd how fast the familymembers are drifting apart. Each goes his ownway.

A long time ago aunts, uncles, andgrandmothers were living in the same house. Only

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once we tic, mother's brother come to live with usfor a little while. I was about 12. I had onebrother and two smaller sisters. We reallyenjoyed our Uncle Jake. He had been in the war.He had a knack for telling wonderful stories.

Many young people lived in the same town.That is, they generally met and married someonefrom that town or one close by. We moved aroundso much that would be nearly impossible. My dadrebuilt refineries. So when the job was over,we'd move on to the next job. We had shortfriendships. I met my husband. at his cousinshouse. He had came off a big wheat harvest andcame by to visit. He left the next day for BastTexas. I knew I really liked him but I was 16 andhe was 25. He didn't come back for three months.We got married not long afterwards. All ourarrangements were made by Odell's friends. Wemarried in October. We came down here in Novemberand have been here ever since. My mother and dadwere very upset, my being so young. But it lasted30 years.

Now a days, the children don't think anythingof marrying and divorcing. It's very sad to me.I have six children that I love dearly. We havehad one church wedding, one in the house and onein the yard. They were all pretty and havelasted. I'm very proud of that.

I think most of the weddings before my timewere church weddings but now anything goes. Thegirls didn't jump up and leave their husbands likethey do now. You were a sorry women if you did.And it was so hard to make a living for yourselfand children. Some girls married around 18 to 25.But over in the east, some people thought if youdidn't marry before 17 or 18 you were an old maid.

A long time ago you had a dowery to bringwith you to get married. I remember I had starteda hope chest. I didn't have much in it though.

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