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HUBS, OLMM. a&vibi. Fora;A. (s. MS) BIOGRAPHY FORM WOFJS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma r Field Worker f s name Rnbv Wolfanb&rggr This report made on (date) SaDtembor 81 193 7 1. Name Clattfo 5* 2, Post Office Address S»tln«l f Oklahoma. 3. Residence address (or location) 4. DATE OF BIRTH: Month AlUBMt Day 17 Year 1885 5. Place of birth WaCTtn 0OUttty» Tannflsse» 6. Name of Father Jamee L» Hayg Place of birth Other information about father 7. Name of Mother Willlt Bray Place of birth : Other information about mother Notes 9r complete narrative by the field worker dealing with the life and story of the person interviewed. Refer to Manual for suggested subjects j&nd q.uest<ionfc> # Continue on blank sheets if necessary and attach firmly to [this form. Number of sheets attached «'.
, GLASB2 S# XSTSHVX28* 8885 247 Baby Wolfenbarger Interviewer September 0, 1937 witfe Mr* Claude B«Hayes Sentinel, Oklahoma. X was bora In Warren County, Tennessee, August 17, 1883. X had one brother out in Oklahoma who wrote letters back hone to as telling about what a wonderful country this waa and what good prospects he had in making money by farm* Ing, X became di a con ten ted with ray home life in Tennessee so at an early age I left home and oame to Oklahoma, X came on the train to Mouatain View in the southwestern part of Oklahoma; it was just a small place had one store, post office t blacksmith shop and a few houses, most of which were Just one room houses or dugouts* X picked cotton all fall and worked on the farm, out wood and hauled water as the place where X worked didn't have any well and we had to haul water from a neighbor 4 s well whioh was about t five ailes away\ we hailed the in barrels. The next year X rented forty acres of land from a neighbor man* X pat most of this in a truck patch. It was about :h&tf way between Mountain View and
HATES. QUOTE, HJTBRVIEW* 8565 I planted beans,peas, corn, sweet potatoes, turnips, pumpkins and tomatoes* I raised a good orop and made a little..oney* We had a good year for OUP crops]had plenty of rain most all spring and sunnier* I picked cotton again that year nd saved what little money I could and after the first of the year I rented one hundred and sixty acres of lsnd* 1 had a hard time the first two or three years*i didn't have any farm tools or money either and just had to start at the bottom( nd work up* Sly plaee was well improved for that tine5 the land was almost all in cultivation and was fenced in* to turn our cattle out and let them grass* We were allowed there wan lots of grass and plenty of water for our stock* That year I planted cotton, corn end wheat, I sold my cot* ton at Mountain View for 5 cents per pound* I got 20 cents per bushel for my corn* I made my flour out of my wheat that X raised sn& had ray com ground at the grist mill* Jb bought two cows the first year, some chickens and one pig* Bach year I tried to add a few cows tc my herd, at one time 1 had twenty head of cattle * X kept my family In plenty of milk
i CLA02B X,.. INTERVIEW. 8585 tad butter the y**r around. After the first few years I m..de lots of money from ray cream* I took this cream to town about once a week* I farmed around that one pl«ee for over twenty five years bat I have never owned a farm yet* I always rente, and since the drought set in and crops have failed I could not make a * living for myself and for my landlord 00 I gave up farming sad moved to Sentinel, where I now live*