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- ~ ' WQRKS^ftOGKESS ADK'ONISTRATION Indian-Pioneur History Project for Oklahoma CORCORAN, im AHN I»TKRVIK» fe" \ 10297 v u A-(S-140) * 411 Field Worker's name Ida B. Lankford, ^.This report made on (date) March 23, " 193 1, Name Ltte Ann Ooroorafl,,2. Post Office Address Oordtll, Oklahoma.. Recidcnce address (or location) Route No* g. 4. DATE OF BIRTH: ' Month January E> ay 51 year 18? 8 5. Place of birth Navarre County, Tcsaa. 6. Name of Father Lanzo Carpenter Place of birth Alabama Other information abotit-father Preacher 7. Name of MotherMary Izell, - ' Place of "birth Alabama Other information about mother ' Housewife. Notes or.complete narrative by the field worker dealing with the life and J,tory of the person interviewed. Rofcr to Manual for su^ested subjects arid questions. Continue on blank sheets if necessary and attach firmly to this form* Number of. sheets attached 4 «
412 CORCORAN, UJE ASS INTERVIEW 10297 Ida B. Lankford, March 231-1938. Interview vrith-lue Ann Oorooran, Route No. 2, Cordell, Oklahoma. I oame from Navarro County, Texas, July 4, 1894, tfe oame in covered wagons and were on the road twelve days. < " \ ( My dad filled on land then went to Oaddo to get < \ " logs to build a\house. <e had borrowed an ox-team to come to this country and we borrowed the oxen to haul the logs to bulld\ our house and to make the first crop with. V; Then I met the/^an I married. My wedding dress was bf calico and fpr our wedding dinner we had blackeyed peas, no grease to season them, coffee and corn bread. My shoes were brdgan with brass toes and I had a bat that a lady had given roev My husband and I moved into a dugout on his farm where he was batching. We had two chairs and a bedstead. I cooked on the fireplace with a skillet and lid; we had an iron pot to boil in and. the best light bread I ever
OOROORAN, LUE ANN '/ INTERVIEW 10297 -B- * V made was in that skillet. ffe had meat, oorn bread and eggs to eat. The seoond year after we were married we bought a cow and fared very well. We had vrood to bugrniin our m \ fireplace aud that made good coals to cook with. One day my huaband was working in the field, I gathered up a flour sack half-full of eggs as I didnh have a bucket on the place. I put that flour sack of eggs across my arm and walked five miles to town to sell the eggs; I got five cents a dozen for them and I only broke three eggs on the way. I then walked back home in time to cook supper. *- The way I raised chickens, \ had a little sod house that was so saall I couldn't walk into it so I would get down on my knees and orawl in it. I would raise chickens and get five cents a piece for fryers. My husband wouldn't sell them for that much so I would sell the ohickens. The first cow we had, I would.churn the milk and cream and make the butter in pounds and put it down in I * \_
1 \' OOROORAN, USE AHN. IHTERV1BW 1029?. * ^ "3- / salt brine as I could not sell the butter. 1 saved it and in this way when bur cow went dry we had enough butter to do us. 4 1 put my cucumber piokles do*n in cane juice which when soured made our vinegar. We also raised enough sweet potatoes to do us all Winter and Spring. Se started our orchard by planting peach seeds and other seeds and this made a fine orchard. I remember going to church. We had five miles to go in a wagon. One of us would drive and the other would walk and knock the tires on the wheels. The seats in the church were of cottonwood poles and the church was held in a dugout which was also used for a sohoolhouse. The Indians were our friends. My father'stayed all night at Big Tree's house one night and they put him on the bed and Big Tree and his squaw rolled up in their blankets and slept on the ground. I have worked hard to help make a living. I raised six children and a step-son.
41 OOROOHAH, UJE AHN INTERVIEW 10297 t -4- I didn't have a sewing machine. I made all ou.r clothes with my fingers and I washed with a tub and rub-board. I made a hand in the field and worked until ^5y children got big enough to work. I would take a ohair to the field and tie the baby in it and hoe cotton and pick ootton or just anything that wa3 to be done. I would pull mlllet ; then L-wtfuld help my husband stack it, to get by and hold our farm, our deai* little home.