4 10 81 https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/7e9bcfacfb63b775069240f7f62f6582.pdf 991c441433b9ca042c2e9c9c869e1045 PDF Text Text GENEVIEVE PENA GUNN Genevieve Pena was born January 23, 1913, at Pagosa Junction, Colorado, one of the children of Juan Pena and Mary Baker Pena. Mary was a Ute and was considered a highly educated person in her day since she had finished the 12th grade at Haskell Institute in Kansas. "My grandparents," Genevieve says, "knew they had a gem of a person in my mother. They loved and valued her highly. My father, who was a member of the San Juan Pueblo near Espanola, N.M., came into this country herding sheep. When Dad wanted to marry Mother, her parents and grandparents discussed it a long lime, finally deciding Juan was industrious and good for the family. Dad offered to pay for Mother, but apparently he had nothing which they considered valuable enough as a dowry. After much thought the older Bakers set this condition. If Dad would work for the family for 2 years without pay, he could marry Mother. He agreed to this and was never sorry. "When I was born," Genevieve says, "the area around Pagosa Junction was not almost empty as it is today. The river valley and all the canyons leading up onto the mesas were full of people. You should have seen the people pour out of the canyons when there was a wedding or a celebration. There were about 20 houses in town, a train station, a church, a hotel with a restaurant, a school and two stores, one run by the Gomez family and the other by Walter Ziebriski. Both stores had good selections of general merchandise. Ziebriski made quite a stir when he put a hand operated gasoline pump out in front of his store. Since Ziebriski spoke English with a heavy accent, I could never understand one word he said, but Dad could. I would listen to their conversations and as soon as we left ask father, 'What did he say?'." "The train was the lifeline of our town. We were a switching point on the main AlamosaDurango line for the branch to Pagosa Springs. That's why we needed a hotel. The schedules didn't always match, so the people coming from or going to Pagosa were often caught between trains and needed a place to spend the night. This gave use a glimpse of the outside world, for some of the traveling people were dressed real fancy. We admired them as they walked up and down the street in the evenings. The little girls watching would say, 'This is our New York.' We were proud of the hotel. It had everything but an indoor toilet." "When it was time for us to go to school, Dad got a place right in town. Dad kept farming and was a good farmer. I can still picture him planning his work and keeping his accounts in a small tablet. He would look through it and say, 'I owe so-and-so two days of work;' or 'So-and-so owes me a lamb this spring.'" "I was so glad when I finished 6th grade. Thal was all the school I wanted, but I was sent to the boarding school at Santa Fe to continue my education. What a scary trip that was. I had ridden trains before, but never away from my parents and never so far away from home. A bunch of us were loaded on the train to Antonito where we spent the first night. I'm sure we all stuck out like sore thumbs, so curious and always saying, 'Look at this!' or 'Look at that!' The next day we got onto another train which took us south to Santa Fe." 6B �'J 'J 1 1 ' ' ' ') "Every summer I came home. The warm season was a busy time because we dried and canned and stored up all the food we needed for the winter, No one was lazy. No one seemed to mind hard work. They would get going and get it done. Every year we went camping to pick fruit and berries - so many kinds, l don't remember them all. Of course, there were chokecherries and the buffalo-berries. The river bottom near Sky Ute Downs used to be thick with buffalo-berries. We found that some of the bushes produced sweet, juicy berries while others nearby were sour. The location of those bushes was a family secret." '' ' ' "All of us liked dances. They were held outside in good weather. If it was cold or wet, Felix Gomez would let us use his barn. All of us got together to decorate it till it didn't even look like a barn. We saved all our bright paper for paper chains and other decorations, Young and old came with their lanterns. The old people were treated very respectfully, even if they didn't dance, for they were the good fiddle players. We went from one to another, asking them if they would play for us. When they got tired and went home, the dance was over." 1 ) } ) ) ") ) ) "On Saint Days there were horse races and foot races. I once won a length of cloth in a race. It was a welcome prize. People looked forward to the celebrations and the contests. As the time approached we engaged in much speculation. Rumors would fly around,' So-and-so has a real fast horse this year,' or 'so-and-so thinks he can beat last year's winner."' ) ) ) ) ) ) ) _) _) _j J _j _j ...) ..J _j ...) ..J ,J "My mother, Mary Pena, was recruited every year to help distribute per capita payments to the tribe. Dad would load the wagon and head for Arboles where we'd jump in the river and cool off and have lunch before going on. We always camped near the agency close to the present site of the Bear Dance Grounds for several days. Mother was chosen because she knew the names of all the tribal members. She rode a car with two armed guards from the BIA who kept between them a huge sack of silver money. None of the Indians wanted checks or paper money. They didn't trust it. Each tribal member was given a cup of silver money, large cups for adults, small ones for children. The money wasn't counted exact. It was merely dipped into the sack and poured into the men's hats. The beginnings of women's lib on the reservation may have started when one of the wives insisted that her cup of money be poured into her shawl instead of into her husband's hat." "One January while l was still in high school at Santa Fe, 1 received the message that my mother was dead. She had ridden the train to Ignacio, and the car she rode in was so overheated that she was sweaty hot when she got off. The walk in the cold winter wind from the depot up to the agency gave her fatal pneumonia." "When I finished high school, there was nothing to keep me in Pagosa Junction, so I came to Ignacio to stay with my aunt and uncle, Lucille and Frank Baker. I stayed with them until I married Graves Gunn. Graves and I had seven children: Harold, Aletha, Emery, Corrine, Sylvia, Janice, and Sandra. Harold and Emery are both dead now." "My father, Juan Pena, is still alive and very active at 94. Long life seems to be a tradition of his family. Juan's mother, Angelita Tapia, lived to be 108." ...) ,J J .J 69 �"When I look back to my childhood, I see that we were made happy with such simple things. Going to Ignacio on the train was a once a year treat. In August Dad would say, 'I think it's lime to go buy shoes and other things girls and boys need.' Thelma and I would get so excited just thinking about the trip." "Today the river has eaten away much of the land which used to belong to the town. Ziebriski's store had fallen down and most of the homesteads are deserted, but when I think of Pagosa Junction, I see it as it was 50 years ago. The school bell rings; the train moves into town; the hotel is busy. The canyon people are riding into town for Saturday shopping. (That's how we called them-the First Canyon people, or the Second Canyon people to indicate which canyon the lived in up or down the river.) I remember the town and the canyons full of life, homes and people. To see ii now, you'd think there had never been anyone there." Shelby Smith March, 1977 70 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Genevieve Pena Gunn Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978-03 Description An account of the resource Biography of Genevieve Pena Gunn based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the March, 1978 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gunn, Genevieve Pena Extent The size or duration of the resource. 3 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/37a16810cb700f497eff333570cb5c76.pdf 75a8b48393539201a928b6633c84192d PDF Text Text ......, ......, 'l } 'l } } } 'l ) ' ' ' ) } GEORGE RICHMOND & AMY (Cope) HAMS Twelve year old George Hams and his friend Lee Canfield stood beside the road staring intently into the distance. Even though the machine they were watching was still far down the road, the boys could hear its rhythmic pop-pop-popping as it approached. A lone figure in the auto sat very straight, holding stiffly to the steering bar. The boys were excited because they were encountering their first automobile. They would have been more excited had they known they were about to see their first auto wreck. The driver, approaching at a fast clip, was unaware of a stretch of deep sand in the road. The hard front wheels sank into the sand and the steering bar jerked from the driver's hands. As the boys stared in fascination, the auto promptly capsized, Hastings, a town of about 4,000 in southern Michigan, was a good place to live in 1898. Located mid-way between the cities of Chicago and Detroit, it was an especially good place for a curious teen-age boy to observe the mechanization and scientific revolution occurring in America, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) __) ) .J _j __) ..J ..J ..J ..J J ..J J J J J J J The town was surrounded by rolling , forested hills with many clear streams running through the country-side. A person could hardly trave l a mile in any direction without finding a pond or lake. George was born there on October 22, 1896, the son of Martha and William Hams. William was a carpenter, then started a grocery and bakery and did well with these businesses. "We always had plenty to eat," George remembers, "because many of the farmers who traded with the store didn't have any cash and would pay for their supplies with meat or fruit or other garden produce. Our meat house was always full of hams and turkeys. The Hams bought a summer cabin on Gunn Lake near Hastings. George, his brother William, and their mother spent the summers at the lake. It was a grand life for a boy. The long summer days were occupied with fishing, swimming, boating and playing with friends. On weekends Mr. Hams would travel out to the lake in an open buggy with an umbrella top. As fall approached, the family moved back to town for school enrollment. William bought wood and set the boys to splitting it, "We mainly used maple, oak and beech for firewood. Even after we installed a coal furnace, mother used wood in the cook stove." Every fall the Hams gathered walnuts, butternuts and hazelnuts. George liked some fun with his nut gathering. Mer a freeze he liked to climb carefully into the branches of a nut tree overhanging a path or lane and wait for someone to come along. At the strategic moment he would Jump vigorously up and down on the branches and bomb the daylights out of his victims . As it is today, winter was a marvelous time for kids, "We would sharpen our skates like razors and race up and down the river or around the ponds near town. If we wanted to ski, we usually tied barrel staves to our feet; or if we wanted something better, we took elm wood to the engineer at the furniture factory. He steamed and shaped the wood. Then we tacked old shoes to the boards and had a pretty fair set of skies." 71 �Each fall Mr. Hams traded supplies to one of the farmers for ten gallons of wine which he kept in a barrel in the cellar. What boy could resist sampling it? George surely didn't. One day he and Lee Canfield sneaked into the cellar and sampled and sampled and sampled. "We got sick," George remembers. George has good memories of school days. He was an honor student most of the time. He admits to getting into mischief (some of which he won't tell about), but does admit to playing "Penny on a Board" with greenhorns who moved into Hastings. To play "Penny on a Board" George would bring out a pile of sand on a shingle, push a penny into the pile and set it on the ground. Several youngsters, including the greenhorn, lined up a ways from the pile and on the count of three raced lo see who could get the penny. Actually the innocent-looking sand pile was more than sand. It was a pile of very fresh cow dung or other manure covered with sand. As you can guess, the greenhorn was allowed to win and wound up with more than he could handle. In 1905 George's father sold out in Michigan and moved to Lake Arthur, New Mexico, south of Roswell where he bought a hardware and lumber business. Since George had only one year of high school left to finish, he was allowed to remain in Hastings. After high school George was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Grand Rapids. He rented a small apartment nearby and began his training. George dated a pretty little girl named Amy Belle Cope who came into the drugstore occasionally. Amy worked at the Fox Typewriter Co. in Grand Rapids. On dates George and Amy attended silent movies, burlesque shows and the circus (Amy especially liked the side shows). Vaudeville shows were $.35 in the evening and $.15 in the afternoon. They made frequent visits to ice cream parlors, rarely to restaurants. George and Amy were married in 1910. In 1911 Viola was born. She was their only child. The Hams made occasional trips to visit his parents in New Mexico. Cars had become quite common, but good roads were rare. They have vivid memories of trips across the plains. While crossing Oklahoma on one trip the Hams came to a region which had been soaked with heavy rain. When they got bogged at the bottom of a hill, Amy agreed to get out and push. Once the car got going, George couldn't stop. Not only was Amy splattered with mud from head to foot, she also had to walk all the way up the hill through deep mud to reach the car. Another time the Hams had completely bogged down in a mud hole and were feeling hopeless until four young men on motorcycles appeared. The cyclists got off their machines, walked over to the car (one to each fender) picked the car up with the Hams still inside, set it on firm ground, and left. In 1920 when Viola was about 9, Amy contracted tuberculosis. The doctors recommended that she go to a dry climate like New Mexico for treatment. She did so and year later she was pronounced cured. If 10 year old Viola hadn't asked for an ice cream cone as they passed through Hagerman, N.M., on their way back home lo Grand Rapids, the Hams family might still be in Michigan. George stopped, went into the drug store for the ice cream and discovered the store was for sale. He bought it on the spot. 72 �Life in Hagerman on the legendary Pecos River was quite different from life in Grand Rapids. The Hams bought a place near the Russell Ranch and became good friends of the Russell family, who proved to be invaluable help when most any problem arose. George bought a few cows. When it came time for one of the calves to be weaned from its mother, Amy had trouble. Mrs. Russell, who weighted about 200 pounds, came over to help. She stepped a stride the shoulders of the calf, grasped its head and ears and forced its head into the bucket. "If it gets balky again, just do that," Mrs. Russell advised. The next day Amy decided to try to force feed the calf. It had not occurred to her that a difference in weight of 110 pounds would matter. Amy, who weighed only 90 pounds got astride the calf and got the ride of her life. Fortunately, Amy had as good a sense of humor about this as about the mud. George operated the drug store in Hagerman from 1921-1946. Though he preferred not to be, he was considered a counter doctor by many of the residents of the area. George and Amy sewed up more people than they like to remember. "One man had such a large knife wound, we could see his heart beating." As in all parts of the country during the great depression, many transients came through Hagerman. "We never refused anyone a prescription, money or no money. One family passing through asked for medicine for a sick baby. Years later we received a letter from them with money for the prescription." ) ) ) Viola moved to Ignacio in the 1940's. When the Hams came to visit, the green trees and flowing streams brought back memories of Michigan. They had always missed the green countryside while living on the dry plains. In 1946 George and Amy bought 40 acres north of Ignacio, remodeled the house and spent many happy years here. Amy died in 1970. George is now 88 years old. He's had a good life with much happiness and filled with good memories. We are happy you moved here Mr. Hams and wish you many more happy years. J December, 1974 - Shelby Smith ) _) J _J ..) ..) ..) J J -.J J J J J J J J 73 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Richmond Hams and Amy (Cope) Hams Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1974-12 Subject The topic of the resource Hams, George Richmond; Hams, Amy (Cope); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of George Richmond Hams and Amy (Cope) Hams based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the December, 1974 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Extent The size or duration of the resource. 3 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/d049294c69215f9970ac6115a19c254d.pdf 25f6f3552c5f11d93f65680fc04be86f PDF Text Text LOUISA (Shaffer) HARTIG Louisa's father was a Shaffer. Her mother was a Kinsloe whose line can be traced back to 1777. Lucy Kinsloe was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1856. Her father, John Bannister Gibson Kinsloe was a newspaper publisher in Knoxville who later moved to Lockhaven, Pennsylvania, where he published the Lockhaven Review and the Clinton Republic. Al Carlisle College in Pennsylvania Lucy met Duncan Shaffer. When they were married, Lucy and Duncan moved to Frostburg, Maryland, where the Shaffer's had a well established business. Frostburg is a small town (smaller than Durango) located in the narrow segment of western Maryland between Pennsylvania and West Virginia. This is Allegheny Mountain Country rich in the history of the Revolution and of the Civil War. "Everyplace you go is either up or down," Louisa says. Since the mountains there are rich in bituminous coal, mining was the chief industry when Louisa's parents settled in Frostburg. The quality of the coal was such that it was prized by the shipping lines for their coal burning vessels. "The whole area is underlain with a network of mine tunnels," Louisa explains. "However, the town itself was clean and neat. All the mining works were located out away from the town. My father and his brothers jointly owned the H.B. Shaffer Co. They sold dry goods, groceries, harness, millinery and household supplies. The business also had an area for grain storage, a mill and a carriage house. I remember the time years later when the old Opera House burned, It was just across the street from our business and was such a hot fire. My dad and uncles poured water on the roof of our place until the danger had passed." "My parents owned one of the historic old houses in town. It had a large front porch with pillars and seven bedrooms, but no modern conveniences - no bath, electricity, or gas. However, we had one convenience few people can afford anymore - hired help. Enzie Garletz maintained the house. She cleaned, did washing and ironing and most of the cooking. Jim Wilhelm was the handyman. He maintained the yard, brought in fuel and supplies, did repairs and took care of the horses and the buggies. Aunty Powell was the midwife who helped bring me into the world. On occasions she took care of us when my parents were away. When my brothers Henry and Francis and I were still small children, we had a goat which could pull a little red cart with a red harness. Once in a while Jim would hitch up the goat and away we would go down the alleys. I don't believe we were ever allowed on the streets with this animal." "My parents were very strict and quite old fashioned. I was never allowed to go to carnivals or Saturday night dances. I was never allowed to work in the store. Young "ladies" didn't do things like that. Being a "lady" in that lime and in that part of the country involved a whole list of "does" and "don'ts" which might seem ridiculous to most people today. Of course, not knowing any different, I accepted all the restrictions as normal and had a very happy childhood. Dad eventually sold the old house. We moved for two reasons. One was to get off Main Street. The other was to acquire plumbing, electricity and gas. It was great to have these conveniences." 74 �'J 'J 'J 'J 'J J J J l ) ) ) ' ' ) ") ') ) ) "Every year we hitched up the horses for our annual picnic at Cook's Mill, a creek and woodsy area about 10 miles north of Frostburg across the Pennsylvania line. Cook's Mill was a beautiful stream. We ate, romped in the water, ran in the woods and played games. Even though it was only 10 miles, it was an all day trip. I always felt sorry for the horses in that country - up and down hill everywhere we went." "The 4th of July was a big deal, too. Dad would buy each of us 'a poke of fireworks' and turn us loose." "When the First World War started, I was about 12 years old. Once a week the ladies and girls in Frostburg got together to knit caps and coats for the Belgian Babies." "The crash in 1929 hit our family hard as it did everyone. We got fifteen cents on the dollar for whatever was in the bank. During the years following, Dad's brothers died one by one. Finally he sold out the business. The building was bought by the Knights of Columbus and used for their meetings until it burned down a few years ago." "In High School I started dating. My boyfriends and I went to the Nickelodeon shows at the Palace and the Lyric Theaters. Sometimes we went to the Vaudeville shows at the old Opera House. When the circus came, we had to go to Cumberland to see it. This was a trip of 11 miles and down hill all the way." ) ) ) ) ) ) ) _) .J __J __J ...) ...) _) ...) ..J ....) ...) J J J J ....) ....) Louisa and Martin Hartig were married in Baltimore in 1925. For years Martin was a foreman at the Frostburg Cellunise Corporation, which manufactured artificial silk. He changed jobs during the Second World War to the Blue Ribbon Bread Co. During the war the windows of the plant were all painted black and all the homes in town had blackout drapes. Whenever the air raid alarms went off at night everything was blacked out in town. Any household showing a light was fined. The ladies in town got involved in hospital work for the war effort. ''We made stretcher pads for the battlefront out of layers of lace curtains contributed by the families in the county - and we made maroon slippers and robes for the Red Cross." "Before and after the war Martin and I did a lot of traveling. We went to Quebec, Canada, once and to Williamsburg and other points south. Martin was a big football fan . Since our town was halfway between Washington and Pittsburgh, we took our pick on the weekends of which place to go." The Hartigs have one daughter, Lucy. In 1953 Lucy and her husband became parents of twin girls, Marta and Marsha. Their grandfather, Martin, was especially proud because the girls were born on his birthday, November 1oth. When the twins were a little over two years old, their parents moved to Alamogordo, New Mexico. After a few months went by, Martin said, "What do you think about moving to New Mexico?" Louisa replied, "If that's what you want to do, let's go." "We lived in Alamogordo 10 years and liked it. At first we especially enjoyed the warm climate year round, but gradually we began to miss the changing of the seasons. When the kids moved up to Colorado, we came too, and have liked it very much. The climate and snow and changing seasons are much more like our old home in Maryland. We did 75 �a lot of traveling in the west once we lived here - to Carlsbad and Mexico and Grand Canyon and Yellowstone - all good times." Martin died suddenly on June 4, 1971. A few months later Louisa sold their home in the country and moved into Ignacio. She is an active participant in all the senior citizen's activities in this area. Every Tuesday afternoon for the past 5 years she has taught knitting and crocheting at the senior center. There are things Louisa likes about the East and things she likes about the West and there certainly are differences, she says. "For one thing, here it's not who you are, it's what you've done that counts." March, 1977 - Shelby Smith 76 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Louisa (Shaffer) Hartig Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1977-03 Subject The topic of the resource Hartig, Louisa (Schaffer); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Louisa (Schaffer) Hartig based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the March, 1977 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hartig, Louisa (Schaffer) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 3 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/1509d090adb1478898204ac56bad89a2.pdf 435c904f7bb26e3dcbfdc96a93f1b162 PDF Text Text 'l 'l 'l • • • 1 'I i i J ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) } ) _) ) ) ) ) ) _) _) ...J RUDOLPH JOHN & SUSIE (McClure) HASSTEDT "My first language was German," Mr. Hasstedt recalls. "My parents were both born in Germany and migrated to America when they were teenagers. My father, Jacob Hasstedt, came to New York alone when he was 17, got a job in a store and soon learned English well. He always had a noticeable accent, but he could speak in public, if necessary. My mother, Julie Henning, moved to Boone, Iowa, where one or her brothers had a bakery. Dad settled into that part of Iowa to farm. A few years after he and mother were married, Dad began to develop a serious asthma condition. His doctors recommended a move to western Kansas for a drier climate. When I was nine months old, my parents loaded me, my two older sisters, and my older brother into a covered wagon and headed west. They settled on a homestead near Buffalo Park - now called Park, Kansas. Our first home there was a dugout, very warm, but small. Dad built a sod stable for the farm animals. Each year we planted trees and made other improvements to qualify for ownership of the homestead. The climate was harsh. There were snow blizzards in winter and blistering hot winds in summer. I have passed green fields of corn in the morning and returned in the evening to hear the leaves rattling and dry after only one day of hot wind." After the Hasstedt's claim was clear, they were permitted to file on a timber claim near" the Saline River, 4 miles away. About this time, they bought a one room frame house to move onto their land. Even though it was small, it was an improvement over the dugout. The children climbed a ladder to sleep in the attic. The winter winds often sifted snow through the shingles, piling snow on their beds. "I started school at the age of 8. Since tax money was very scarce, school sessions lasted at the most 6 months and sometimes only 4 months. There were no grades. Pupils read in the First Reader, the Second Reader, etc. Each year every student, no matter how old, started with the First Reader, reading through the familiar material, book after book, for a review until they reached a difficult level. At that time the teacher would assist them to learn the new words. My help was needed on the farm each fall. Instead of starting to school in September, it was usually Thanksgiving before I could go. I began plowing with a walking plow when I was 12. We used a breaking plow to cut the tightly knit sod to open new land. Then we used a stirring plow to break up and tum the soil. Following the plow is weary work. I caught myself sleepwalking many times, awakening only when the plow had hit a rock. By attending school only part time, I was 21 years old before I finished 8th grade." ....) "There was little for young people to enjoy in those days. Sometimes had parties, or school activities or church activities. The first minister in that part of Kansas was a Congregationalist preacher. I joined that church when I was 12. From the time I was a small child, I liked to listen to the preachers speak and wished I could do that. This desire stayed with me. In my early 20's I decided to enroll in the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago to learn more about the Bible. I rode the train to Chicago and was amazed at the city. The lamplighters going on their evening rounds, the elevated railways, everything was new to me. I attended the institute for 6 months and was still undecided about preaching when I returned home. Soon after, some of the people told the minister, 'Let Rudolph preach.' It took me 2 weeks to write a sermon. When the day came, I was quite nervous, but it went over well. The people liked it and most important I found out I could do it and enjoyed doing it. Soon afterward I enrolled in a Congregational Church Academy at Eureka, Kansas. There I went to school and preached for 2 country churches." .,.) 77 _) ...J __) __) ..) ..) __) .,.) __) J ,..) �In 1907 Susie Frances McClure and I were married. After finishing at the academy, we moved to Topeka where I attended Washburn College." "Later, Susie and I decided to move to Kiowa County in Colorado. We homesteaded land near Eads. A Presbyterian minister came to preach at Eads once a month from La Junta. When the people found out I could preach they let me speak for them and soon gave me his job. I soon was traveling to two country churches to preach part time. With a horse and buggy it required a lot of time going back and forth. My first Model T expanded my range considerably. They soon had me going to Chivington and Brandon, also. To most common people the Model Twas the most important invention of that time. It would travel in all kinds of weather. Rain or snow all you had to do was button down side curtains, put your nose against the windshield and go. Once while I was taking an elderly man to the doctor in Colorado Springs, I remarked to him, 'I don't see why anybody would want anything any better than this.' II was a cold miserable day. The side curtains were flapping in the wind and we were wrapped in blankets. Uncomfortable as people would be today, we thought it was wonderful to make such speed." "In 1918 we moved to Florida Mesa to work with the Presbyterian congregations there and at Bayfield. Our trip across the mountains was an experience to remember. Wolf Creek Pass was little more than a trail. We stayed 3 years, living in the manse on Florida Mesa before moving on to Monument. I was out of the ministry for one year. Then I was assigned lo the Monument church for 13 years." "In 1937 I was again assigned to the San Juan Larger parish which included Florida Mesa, Bayfield, Ignacio and Allison. I stayed with this assignment until I retired in 1949. In the later years the roads improved, but in the early years it was a real challenge to make the rounds. Al one time I had a Model T, a buggy, a sled and a saddle. All were needed at one time or another." The Hasstedts had three children. Julia now lives in Castle Rock. Cecil and Dorothy are both in Bayfield. Susie Hasstedt died in December of 1965. Mr. Hasstedt is now 99. He has this bit of advice, 'Old age is not all fun. Put it off as long as possible.' Of course this is said in fun. Mr. Hasstedt is in good health. His hearing is good. He has a good appetite and he feels good. Best of all, his mind is sharp and full of good humor. One thing he regrets is the gradual losing of his eyesight. he has given away all his books. "I can't read any more. Fortunately, I have memorized a good deal of scripture, but I have forgotten a lot of it, too. They usually let me preach on the Sunday nearest to my birthday. I don't like to talk about hell and damnation. My favorite subject of them all is God and his plan of salvation for all men." Mr. Hasstedt now lives in Bayfield with his son, Cecil, and his daughter in law, Doris. We wish lo thank him for all the years he has been a help and an encouragement to his fellowman and wish him many more years of good health. August, 1978 - Shelby Smith 78 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rudolph John Hasstedt and Susie (McClure) Hasstedt Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978-08 Subject The topic of the resource Hasstedt, Rudolph John; Hasstedt, Susie (McClure); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Rudolph John Hasstedt and Susie (McClure) Hasstedt based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the August, 1978 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hasstedt, Rudolph John; Hasstedt, Susie (McClure) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/7d6522d0dc6b70aa58227a6d0fe219ff.pdf fbe703a5781e8693f66b22735126265a PDF Text Text KARL and EDA (Kreuger/Olbert) HAUERT Not far from the Black Forest in the south part of Germany is the town of Baden-Baden. Andrew Hauert and his family were the latest in a long line of Hauerts who had lived and reared their families there. All the 'common people in Germany had a craft. Andrew was a weaver. He earned extra money working on the farm of a large land owner. Owning his own land was unthinkable as it was for most of the common people in Europe. ' ) l ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) J ) ,...) 'J J ...) ,...) J .._) J J J J J -..) .._) When Andrew got the idea to come to America, his brothers did not approve at all, but Andrew persisted for several reasons. Among them, he wanted to own land and he wanted to get himself and his family away from the military. All the young men in Germany were drafted, went through rigorous training and were required to stay in the army a long time. In 1893 Andrew, his wife Lizzie and their children sailed for America. His brothers were certain it was a foolish venture and that Andrew would want to return, but they were wrong. Andrew didn't stop until he reached Prove, Utah. There he worked for a while until he heard about a settlement of German people in Thompson Park between Durango and Mancos, Colorado. After moving his family to Colorado, Andrew worked in the sawmill, then he leased a ranch below Hesperus. He had $7.25 to start ranching, but he managed. It was here that little Karl, who was only 2 years old when the Hauerts came to America, began to learn farming and ranching. When Karl was 6, his parents boarded him with the Olberts at Thompson Park so he could attend school there. Fairly often the Utes, visiting back and forth between Ute Mountain and Ignacio, stopped for the night at the Olbert's ranch. Chief Ignacio was with them sometimes. "Usually, the Indians would have supper with us," Karl recalls, "and visit for a while. Once old Mr. Dibert decided to play a trick on one of the Indians. He placed a small piece of limburger cheese on his plate. As soon as the man smelled the cheese, he left the house and refused to return." A few years later Andrew bought a farm on C herry Creek in Thompson Park. Kart remembers, "That year we didn't have much money. So we skinned and ate 7 deer. There wasn't any season then. I got so tired of deer meat that year. I have never liked it again." As time permitted, the Hauerts built a large farmhouse, a barn and other outbuildings. Their water was supplied by a spring which was piped into the house. For heat the Hauerts mined their own coal. "We had to dig quite a ways back into the seam before we found good coal, but finally we found some of the best in the area." Karl and his father built a large, very strong corral. Unexpectedly, this made him some new friends and gave him a small bit of income once or twice a year. "A bunch of cowboys would round up wild horses in Utah and the Four Corners area and drive them to Denver to sell. They always stopped at my father's ranch overnight because his corral was the only one large enough and strong enough to hold the animals. They always left the best two horses for my dad. He would break them to ride and sell them to the Indians for $5.00 or $10.00 each." 79 �Karl and Minnie Melugin were married. They had three children: Ruth, Robert and Shirley all of whom were reared on the ranch on Cherry Creek. Until 1905 there was no church in Thompson Park. That year Julius Frese, an ordained minister of the Lutheran Church from Omaha moved there lo organize a church. Eventually, a chapel was built to serve the people of that area. One year the Olberts of Thompson Park sent their son Louis to accompany a load of cattle to the stockyards in Omaha. Louis was invited to stay as a guest in the home of the Rev. Mr. Julius Frese's parents, the family of the Rev. E.J. Frese. It was on this occasion Louis met 19 year old Eda Krueger, the adopted daughter of the Frees family. Louis and Eda were immediately interested in one another. "How could I not be interested in a handsome cowboy from Colorado," Eda remarks. How Eda Krueger came to be adopted into the Frese family is a very interesting and often sad story. The Kruegers also migrated to America from Germany. Eda's father, William had money enough for one person's passage. He came alone to Iowa where he worked on the farms until he could bring his wife and two children, Martha and Franz to America. They farmed the rich Iowa land directly across the Missouri River from Omaha. They attended church in Omaha where E.J. Frese was the pastor. The children went to school at the Lutheran parochial school. Two more children were born, William and Eda. When Eda was 6 months old, her mother Augusta died. In 1903 Mr. Krueger heard about available land in Oklahoma. He decided he wanted a change of scene and a new life there. In April he moved his family to a farm near Minco, Oklahoma, about 50 miles SW of Oklahoma City. He was just getting started in developing the place when he died suddenly in August of the same year. Martha was adopted by a banking family in Minco. Franz was old enough to be somewhat on his own. The Frese family in Omaha asked for Eda. She rode the train all alone back to Omaha. "They were a fine family,'' Eda says. "They kept me for 10 years and treated me just wonderful." When 15 year old William, came back to Omaha, he lived in the YMCA, worked in a grocery store and put himself through business school. His hard work and perseverance paid off. William got a good job in one of the Omaha banks. During all those years in Omaha, Eda did his laundry and kept in close touch with him. Eda and Louis Olbert corresponded for 2 years before they decided to get married. Louis did not really oppose her choice of a husband, but did not understand why she wanted to marry and live so far away in such wild country. Eda wanted a home, a place of her own, but on the train ride to Colorado, she could not help wondering just how primitive life might be in La Plata County. It was 1913 when the train with Louis and Eda puffed into Durango. "When I saw the streetcar on Main Street, I was greatly relieved. I decided if Durango had streetcars, it could not be too wild a place." "Thompson Park, of course, had no street cars, but I had no complaints about my life there. We stayed with the old Phillip Olberts until we could build a place of our own. They were always very kind to me. In the spring we started a house of our own. It wasn't Omaha. For a long time we hauled water from Cherry Creek for household use, 80 �'1 '1 '} .,..,, '1 ) ) ) ) ) l J ) ) ) but eventually Louis built a 700 barrel cistern up the hill from our house. It was a pit lined with stone and mortar and coated wit plaster. When the water was piped down to the house the whole family knew I was so excited. They all said they were going to come and watch me take my first bath." Louis and Eda had one son, Alfred. "He spoke beautiful German," Ida recalls, "but that just about had to come to an end during World War I." The war years were very hard on German immigrants. All teaching of German language in schools came to a stop. Books were burned. Some people badly over-reacted toward German-Americans and heaped verbal abuse on who exhibited a German accent or German heritage. (The final page of Karl & Eda's story is missing. I remember, though, that Louis O/bert died and later Eda marn"ed Karl Hauert. They were living in a very large, nice home on the hill west of Ignacio when I interviewed them in October of 1975. I spoke German with them, using the little I retained from a college class taken in 1956. We had many laughs over my ineptness, but they appreciated my attempts.) -) SHELBY SMITH -- October, 1975 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) _) J __) J J ..) ..) .) ...) ..) ._) ...) ... ) J ..J J J J 81 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karl Hauert and Eda (Kreuger/Olbert) Hauert Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1975-10 Subject The topic of the resource Hauert, Karl; Hauert, Eda (Kreuger/Olbert); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Karl Hauert and Eda (Kreuger/Olbert) Hauert based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the November, 1975 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hauert, Karl; Hauert, Eda (Kreuger/Olbert) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 3 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/de38c56b0ce2fd992c71bdb85c3b8edd.pdf 494524474a22964d0d81ae9a78dbce81 PDF Text Text MARTIN HAYES Lilly Fish Hayes gave birth to her 5th child July 30, 1896, near La Boca, Colorado. Her band, the Capote Band was encamped on a hill above the Pine River for the summer. Martin was born in a tepee like countless other Lites back through the generations. Lilly and her children had little conception of the great changes about to affect their tribe. Not much longer would the LIies hunt the deer and the rabbits for their food. Not much longer would they have skill with bows and arrows. Not much longer would they weave their own fish seines from strips of oak fibers. Martin learned these skills as a boy. As he became a man, he learned farming skills also. When he got his own land, he raised wheat and oats, potatoes and corn and the other necessary vegetables for the table. Martin remembers the many ceremonials and dances and the horse racing and gambling which entertained the tribe in the old days. His own tastes were more for quiet things. Martin liked to fish. He especially liked to ride his horse into the middle of the Pine River and fish from horseback. All of Martin's brothers and his sister are dead now. He never married, but he raised his nephew, Erdman Tobias, from the lime he was a child. Erdman still lives with Martin and they are very close. Though life has changed greatly for his tribe, Martin continues to lead a very simple existence. He has never driven a car and states, "I'd never make it home, if I tried." He has never traveled far from the Pine Valley except for one trip to Utah. When asked whether he would like to have the old days back, Martin says, "I'm enjoying myself. I like the new things that are coming about." April, 1977 -- Shelby Smith, translated by Isabel Kent 82 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Martin Hayes Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1977-04 Subject The topic of the resource Hayes, Martin; Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Martin Hayes based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the April, 1977 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hayes, Martin Extent The size or duration of the resource. 1 page Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby; Kent, Isabel https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/b02b3dba5655b00897e9077887c65544.pdf efdc11ea59a09b1fa865f340a7e04d96 PDF Text Text 'I 'l 'l 'l '") ~ J J LAURA (Hartley) HILL "Folks in my parent's day always had the idea the grass was greener on the other side of the mountain. That's what brought my father, James Hartley, and his parents out of ) ) ) ) J Tennessee and what brought my mother, Sally Teter and her family out of Missouri. Both families arrived at Flora Vista, New Mexico, about the same time. When mother and dad married, my mother already had three daughters from a previous marriage. . Her first husband had died. My half-sisters were Belle, Dora and Hazel. The year before my parent's marriage, dad had taken a ranch on the La Plata River northwest of Farmington, N.M. That's where I and my little brother Teddy, were born. Dad called his place "The Greenhorn Ranch" because he said all the settlers in that part of the valley, including himself, were greenhorns." ) ') ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) _) j j ..J "We had dry land about two and a half miles east of the river. The men decided to build an irrigation ditch. The contour of the land required a ditch 7 miles long which the men dug by hand with picks and-shovels. With no one to survey it, they had to eyeball and estimate the grade the best they could. They had problems with it, but it worked when they had enough water. While we were there, Teddy died of the whooping cough when he was only two years old.'' "Dad raised corn and alfalfa and a big garden. Mother canned all the food she could. I suppose we would have starved without the garden. I learned to milk the cow and feed the pigs and chickens. It was fun to milk. When I first learned, I took a 5 pound lard can, milked it full and thought I had done enough. Mother soon explained, if I started, I had to finish or I would ru in the cow. My folks were very poor, but that wasn't unusual. There were many poor people then. We drove a team and wagon to Farmington, which was about 3 blocks long or to Aztec, the county seat, which wasn't much bigger. When dad finally could buy a buggy, we thought we had something. We were so thrilled." ..At Christmas time my parents didn't have much money to spend, but I always got at least one nice toy and something to wear. You could buy a beautiful doll for a dollar. I attended the Williams School until the 10th grade. My dad served as school director with Joe Glaister and John Smith for years and years. He helped raise the money to buy materials and build the school. Frequently, we had dances to earn money for school expenses. The old school is still there. It's now used as a fire station for the community." ._) ..J ..J J J J "In 1911 every bridge was washed off the La Plata River. One or two persons drowned . Somebody a few years ago built a house close to the mouth of the river near Farmington. I don't wish them any harm, but someday that house is going to be washed away." ..._) "World War I came and went while we were still on the farm. We didn't know a lot about the time he came home from the war except what we read in the Aztec paper. It seemed very far away. I met William Hill about the time he came home from the war. He had a farm on the La Plata about 10 miles north of dad's place. We were married in July of 1926. I had one daughter, Frances, from an earlier marriage. Frances learned to love William and he loved her. We farmed the place on the La Plata and did well. Both of us loved to go. I'm still a gadfly. We traveled every year to Arizona, or California or Oregon. ..._) 83 ..._) J ..._) ..._) ..._) �We saw all the sights. William liked to gamble. Sometimes we would stop at Reno. He got good at those games. If he started to lose, he'd walk away for a day or so. If he started to win, he stuck with it and sometimes made a lot of money. Of course ii didn't cost much to travel then. Gas was about 15 cents a gallon. When we were first married, we had a Model T Roadster. We got to Portland, Oregon, just as they were having a gas war. We filled up with 10 cent gas and took off down the street. A little further down the road we saw a place offering 9 cent gas. William said, 'I have a notion to go to the edge of town and dump this and fill up with 9 cent gas,' but he didn't." "William and I had no children of our own, but we had a wonderful life on the farm and on our trips. By 1950 William was not able to work any more. He suffered from emphysema caused by the poison gas he breathed during the war. The next 16 years he was in and out of the veteran's hospital until he died in 1966." "I moved to Ignacio to be near by daughter and son-in-law Frances and Dick Baird, and their children. Three of my grandchildren also live in Ignacio, Janneth King, and her brothers Clifford and Dale. Richard Baird lives in Arizona and Bill is in California." "Things in this country have changed a lot in the last 50 years. When I was a little girl, the road over the hills between the La Plata River and Aztec was hardly a road, but I loved to go on that rough trail then just as I love to go now when travel is easy.' Shelby Smith -- Taken in June of 1979. 84 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Laura (Hartley) Hill Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1979-06 Subject The topic of the resource Hill, Laura (Hartley); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Laura (Hartley) Hill based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the June, 1979 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hill, Laura (Hartley) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/2bdb7781b7b1f606663466f53c8cf06f.pdf 730ef9b4e359a2d8e00eaa9861b3dd2d PDF Text Text 'l "} "} "} "} ~ ' ' '' ) ) } ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) J _) _) ..J ..J J J ..J J ..) ...J J ...J J J J J J EMMET & JESSIE (Stauffer) HOTT "My dad, Robert P. Hott was raised by his grandparents in Paw Paw, West Virginia. His mother died when He was four and his father was killed in a Civil War Battle on his own land. At the age of 12, dad ran away from home and got a job on a cattle ranch in Missouri. From then on ranching was his life. He moved west to Farmington and to the L.C. Ranch in the Blue Mountains west of Monticello. He married Emma Peterson at Moab, Utah, and later came to Pagosa Springs and then to the ranch on Spring Creek." "I was born at Pagosa Springs on December 12, 1910. The physician attending my mother was Dr. Mary Fisher, a highly respected doctor and one of the few lady doctors of that time. My mother and I rode home on the train to Tiffany and then on the sled to the ranch . One of my earliest memories is of riding behind my Dad on his horse to check the cattle. When I was small, Dad owned 5,000 head of cattle, which he placed on his summer range north of Pagosa Springs. Sometimes my mother and I visited my older brother on the summer pasture. The trip took one full day with a horse and buggy. When Dad lost his rights to the summer range at O'Neal Park, he leased another range on the Little Blanco River south and east of Pagosa." "I started to school 1/2 mile north of our home place at Mason School. I guess kids always have to have their fun. Not many days went by without some one putting a skunk under the school house, or a snake in the teacher's desk or some other trick. In 1918 Dad bought a touring car from Mr. Vanbrimmer's Agency in Durango. It was a 6 cylinder Case and a very good car. Later he bought a 7 seater Jeffry. It was fancy with two jump seats in the back. Dad never learned to drive. My older brothers always took the wheel and the one time he tried, he landed in the ditch. They teased him so much, he never tried again. We still used horses and sleds in the winter. The cars were drained and put on blocks until April or May. I started driving when I was 12. Nobody needed a license. If you were big enough to move the car down the road, you could drive. When my brother, Rex, started dealing in used cars in Durango, he found a used Overland for me. It was a stylish car which I enjoyed a lot. There wasn't much time for play. My friends, Sandy Scott and Hershel! La Londe and I played baseball and went to dances when we could, but most of the time our parents kept us busy irrigating, haying, and feeding the cattle. It was hard work, but I loved my life on the ranch." "After 8 years at Mason School, I went to high school 2 years at Tiffany. At the age of 19, I was hired to work in the bank at Ignacio for $8.00 per month. The only other employees were Iva Waite, (Vida Ritter's sister) and Merrill Turner, who at that time was managing the bank for Emmet Wirt. My job was everything from cleanup to posting checks to working at the window." "I met Jessie Stauffer at a fire in Allison. We both attended a dance in Allison one evening when A.O. Young's store caught fire. We began visiting while we watched the fire and that started our friendship. Soon afterwards, Jessie and I began going to dances and to the movies at the Ute Theater in Ignacio and at the Kiva in Durango. We really enjoyed the kind of movies made then. Many of them were musicals with a lot of singing and dancing and a happy theme. We remember one starring Buddy Rogers called 'We'd make a Peach of a Pair'." Jessie was born in Ignacio on December 13, 1914. Her mother, Margaret Leota (Davis) Stauffer, was born in Belmont, Ohio. When her first husband died, she got a job at the 85 �Ute Agency in Ignacio and against the fears and objections of her relatives, moved to the far west. "While working at the Agency," Jessie related, "mother met Jesse Stauffer and they were soon married. Dad owned a barber shop in the block south of the bank. I attended school in Ignacio all 12 years. People must have considered me a tom boy because I liked every king of sport. All the kids played baseball and I was on the girl's basketball team. When I was a child at home, the town was full of young families with children. My playmates were the Andersons, Flints, Morrises, Bryans and the McJunkins. We were never bored. We were always playing kick-the-can or run-sheep-run. None of the streets were paved, but we roller skated on the sidewalks. I tried to learn to ride a bike, but the streets were so rough. Every time I tried I fell and hurt myself or ran into a car or got my pants leg caught in the chain, so I quit. The town had no water system. All water for household use was pumped from wells at the street corners and carried into the homes, but we did have electricity. The lines came down from Bayfield in the 1920's. We were so pleased to have a radio to hear Amos & Andy and all the other good shows on KOA Denver." "Dad often took us on trips. Some of them were all the way to Iowa and Wyoming. Once in our Model T Fond we met a car on Wolf Creek Pass and almost got pushed off the edge. It was really no more than a one lane road in the 20's." "When Emmet and I began dating, he had a yellow 1929 DeSoto convertible with spoke wheels. In the evenings when he left the bank to drive home, he'd open the "cutout", which let the exhaust bypass the muffler, and I could hear his car for 2-3 miles out of town." "The summer after I finished high school, Emmet and I were married on July 10, 1933. We rented the house where Lawrence and Margaret Wiseman later lived for so many years. We stayed in town until Emmet's dad died, then moved out to operate the ranch. We had two children, Margaret, who now lives in Lake Havasu, Arizona, and Bob, who now lives on the ranch with his family. The ranch was a good life for us. We never wanted anything else. Our children enjoyed it and now Bob's children seem to love it as much as we did. The depression was hard, but we always had plenty to eat. We had good neighbors. We especially enjoyed Graves and Ada Kent. Graves was one of my mother's students at the Indian School. She remembered Graves as being small, but strong as an ox. Often she accompanied the Indian baseball teams to their games. It was a rough game at times. She always told the boys, 'If they spike you, you spike 'em back'." Emmet served on the school board in the Tiffany area before the schools were consolidated. He was on the Board of County Commissioners from 1948-1964. He says that job wasn't much fun, but was more fun than it would be now. The Hotts moved back to their home in Ignacio in 1972. Recently Emmet served as mayor of Ignacio for two years. The Hotts love to travel. In recent years they have taken trips to the Caribbean, to Hawaii and last year to Australia, New Zealand and the Fiji Islands. When asked what they want to do now that they are semi-retired and out of politics, they answer, "Travel some more." By Shelby Smith, January, 1980 86 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emmet Hott and Jessie (Stauffer) Hott Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1980-01 Subject The topic of the resource Hott, Emmet; Hott, Jessie (Stauffer); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Emmet Hott and Jessie (Stauffer) Hott based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the January, 1980 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hott, Emmet; Hott, Jessie (Stauffer) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/bd414922eb990ea7a7440774a4b3cbaa.pdf 1d61978f0f75757ec5fc945d285014a1 PDF Text Text CHARLOTTE M. (GORMAN) JONES 'l 'l J J Charlotte Gorman was born in Chicago, the daughter of William and Frances Gorman, both of whom were Canadian immigrants born near Toronto, Ontario. When William and Frances met in Chicago in 1900, William worked for the Chicago Street Railroad Co, which operated horse-drawn street cars all over the Chicago metro area. Women were supposedly unliberated in 1900, but Frances played golf often and well. Both she and William were interested in the theater. Years later Charlotte says she recalls hearing them talkins about the Berrymores and the- Drews and other famous acting families of that period. Most recreation in Chicago during the summer centered around Lake Michigan. ") ' , ) ) -) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) J _) .J -' J J J .J J . "In the summer my mother and her brothers and sisters usually rented a houseboat on the lake. The boat was moored to a pier off the shore several miles from town. The only access to town was a packet boat which came along once a day. If we wanted to go to town for shopping or to send mail, we raised a flag on the boat as a signal for the packet boat to stop. These vacations were a cool relaxing time of swimming, fishing, sunbathing and rest." Charlotte's memories of Chicago, such as those above, have been reinforced by her parents, since she was only about four years old when the Gormans moved to the Ozarks. Before William retired he began dabbling in the buying and selling of real estate. He moved the family onto one of his plots near Ironton and Burbank, Missouri, about 90 miles south of St. Louis. During the year and a half the Gormans were there, William was the postmaster in Ironton. Then William heard of the Loma Land Development Co. which was opening farming land in the Colorado River Valley west of Grand Junction and Fruita. William and many other easterners invested in farmland there. A Presbyterian Mission was opened at Loma and is still operating, but the farm projects did not do so well. Neither the Gormans nor the other Easterners had heard of alkali land. Most of the farms at Loma proved largely unsuitable for irrigated farming. Therefore, the Gormans moved to Orchard Heights near Fruita. Then began some of the most enjoyable years of Charlotte's life . "Orchard Heights was a beautiful place. We could look right up into the Colorado National Monument from our yard. The orchards, mostly apples, occupied hundreds of acres. Our place was rented from a New York State man who had planted every kind of apple we knew about and many varieties we never knew the names of." Charlotte and her brother, Douglas traveled to school at Fruita 3 miles away in a horsedrawn school bus. The bus consisted of a wagon with seats along the sides and benches for the little ones down the middle. It was roofed and had black oil-cloth curtains which could be closed during bad weather. .J J J J J J .._J .._J "All the young ones in our area played 'hide and go seek' and went swimming during the warm months. During winter we had community parties or went ice skating on the stock ponds." 87 �Fall was a lime of work, a time of apple picking and potato digging and of constructing apple boxes. The growers built their own apple boxes from pre-cut sticks and boards. Charlotte remembers doing her share of nailing. Then the apples were packed, hauled to the Railroad Depot and shipped. Farm children have opportunities for varieties of pets largely unavailable to city kids. Charlotte remembers one pet lamb which became a nuisance in the neighborhood. "He would follow our buggy wherever we went Once he followed us all the way to Loma where he made himself a nuisance in the flower beds. Almost the whole town turned out to make sure he followed us when we left." When Charlotte was about 10 years old, her parents moved lo another place near Fruita where they attended a country school for grades 4-8. William grew potatoes and tomatoes as well as apples there. "While we were there a couple of burros came to live with us. They just showed up. Douglas would try to ride one of them lo school, but he usually didn't make it About halfway there the burro would tum around and head for home and Doug would have to walk all the way to school anyway." Charlotte loved to read and did a lot of writing, too. At the age of 9 she announced that she intended to be a newspaper reporter, "I donl know why I said that, but it must have been a premonition of things lo come." In high school Charlotte especially enjoyed English, dramatics and journalism. She was the editor of the first Fruita High School newspaper. In college Charlotte majored in journalism and would have accepted a job on the Grand Junction newspaper, but the wages were too low. Instead she taught school in Fruita for 4 years. "I first came to the San Juan Basin to visit a college friend who lived in Cortez. I stayed in Durango a while at the Sterling Hotel which was operated by Lawrence Wiseman's mother. Mrs. Wiseman and I became good friends and she took me with her on a visit to Ignacio to see Lawrence and Margaret. It was on this visit that I met my future husband. Fay Jones worked at the sugar beet mill in Brighton during the fall and early winter. During spring and summer he came back lo Ignacio to help his aunt and uncle run the Commercial Hotel which was located on Goddard Avenue where the recent Bill Liesa auto repair shop Is located." The hotel has burned down since then, but in its day Charlotte says it was a very nice place and an interesting place to slay. "All kinds of travelers, including Washington officials here on Tribal business stayed there. The parlor was a place of lively conversation and fun in the evenings. The restaurant served delicious food. A complete Sunday dinner cost forty cents." Inflation operated then too. Charlotte says Louis Morris recalls what a blow it was when the Sunday dinners increased for forty cents to fifty cents per meal. "I stayed there in the hotel several days. They were so short handed that I was offered a job and took it It was there I got acquainted with Fay. We were married in November of 1933. Fay worked in the mill in Brighton till Christmas time. Then we came back to Ignacio." 89 �'! 'l -i '! '! '! ' l ) Steady jobs were almost impossible to find during those depression years, when Fay and Charlotte got a chance to buy the Ignacio Chiefton, they took it. At that time the Chiefton was located in one half of the building now occupied by Rudy's Lounge. The other half of the building was Mr. Stauffer's Barber Shop (Jesse Hott's father). Charlotte was the editor and reporter and Fay was the publisher and advertising manager. It wasn't easy to keep a newspaper alive during the 30's. Many subscriptions were paid in produce rather than with cash. One man paid his with strawberries for years. ) ) The Joneses have three children; Malcolm lives in La Porte, Texas, Jacqueline Rea lives in Denver and Kathleen Rosenberg lives in Oakland, New Jersey. ) ) -) ) ) ) ) } Faye died in 1968. Since then Charlotte has spent quite a bit of time traveling. She has been to Canada twice to visit relatives and, also, on a bus tour of Mexico. No one is surprised that Charlotte can't quit writing. She has written a number of short stories andis currently working on a history of the Presbyterian Church in this area. Every month Mrs. Jones voluntarily supplies most of the news for this newsletter. A healthy interest in life is rewardin~ and invigorating. Charlotte certainly has this. "When I first came to Ignacio, I thought it was a fascinating place with it's variety of cultures and traditions and its beautiful surroundings. I still do." July, 1975 -- Shelby Smith ) ) ) ) ) J ) _) _) J ..) J J J J .J J J J J J J J J 89 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charlotte M. (Gorman) Jones Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1975-07 Subject The topic of the resource Jones, Charlotte M. (Gorman); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Charlotte M. (Gorman) Jones based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the July, 1975 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jones, Charlotte M. (Gorman) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 3 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/c719a7a3fcdc39abe480dc61d04e5464.pdf 1d61978f0f75757ec5fc945d285014a1 PDF Text Text CHARLOTTE M. (GORMAN) JONES 'l 'l J J Charlotte Gorman was born in Chicago, the daughter of William and Frances Gorman, both of whom were Canadian immigrants born near Toronto, Ontario. When William and Frances met in Chicago in 1900, William worked for the Chicago Street Railroad Co, which operated horse-drawn street cars all over the Chicago metro area. Women were supposedly unliberated in 1900, but Frances played golf often and well. Both she and William were interested in the theater. Years later Charlotte says she recalls hearing them talkins about the Berrymores and the- Drews and other famous acting families of that period. Most recreation in Chicago during the summer centered around Lake Michigan. ") ' , ) ) -) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) J _) .J -' J J J .J J . "In the summer my mother and her brothers and sisters usually rented a houseboat on the lake. The boat was moored to a pier off the shore several miles from town. The only access to town was a packet boat which came along once a day. If we wanted to go to town for shopping or to send mail, we raised a flag on the boat as a signal for the packet boat to stop. These vacations were a cool relaxing time of swimming, fishing, sunbathing and rest." Charlotte's memories of Chicago, such as those above, have been reinforced by her parents, since she was only about four years old when the Gormans moved to the Ozarks. Before William retired he began dabbling in the buying and selling of real estate. He moved the family onto one of his plots near Ironton and Burbank, Missouri, about 90 miles south of St. Louis. During the year and a half the Gormans were there, William was the postmaster in Ironton. Then William heard of the Loma Land Development Co. which was opening farming land in the Colorado River Valley west of Grand Junction and Fruita. William and many other easterners invested in farmland there. A Presbyterian Mission was opened at Loma and is still operating, but the farm projects did not do so well. Neither the Gormans nor the other Easterners had heard of alkali land. Most of the farms at Loma proved largely unsuitable for irrigated farming. Therefore, the Gormans moved to Orchard Heights near Fruita. Then began some of the most enjoyable years of Charlotte's life . "Orchard Heights was a beautiful place. We could look right up into the Colorado National Monument from our yard. The orchards, mostly apples, occupied hundreds of acres. Our place was rented from a New York State man who had planted every kind of apple we knew about and many varieties we never knew the names of." Charlotte and her brother, Douglas traveled to school at Fruita 3 miles away in a horsedrawn school bus. The bus consisted of a wagon with seats along the sides and benches for the little ones down the middle. It was roofed and had black oil-cloth curtains which could be closed during bad weather. .J J J J J J .._J .._J "All the young ones in our area played 'hide and go seek' and went swimming during the warm months. During winter we had community parties or went ice skating on the stock ponds." 87 �Fall was a lime of work, a time of apple picking and potato digging and of constructing apple boxes. The growers built their own apple boxes from pre-cut sticks and boards. Charlotte remembers doing her share of nailing. Then the apples were packed, hauled to the Railroad Depot and shipped. Farm children have opportunities for varieties of pets largely unavailable to city kids. Charlotte remembers one pet lamb which became a nuisance in the neighborhood. "He would follow our buggy wherever we went Once he followed us all the way to Loma where he made himself a nuisance in the flower beds. Almost the whole town turned out to make sure he followed us when we left." When Charlotte was about 10 years old, her parents moved lo another place near Fruita where they attended a country school for grades 4-8. William grew potatoes and tomatoes as well as apples there. "While we were there a couple of burros came to live with us. They just showed up. Douglas would try to ride one of them lo school, but he usually didn't make it About halfway there the burro would tum around and head for home and Doug would have to walk all the way to school anyway." Charlotte loved to read and did a lot of writing, too. At the age of 9 she announced that she intended to be a newspaper reporter, "I donl know why I said that, but it must have been a premonition of things lo come." In high school Charlotte especially enjoyed English, dramatics and journalism. She was the editor of the first Fruita High School newspaper. In college Charlotte majored in journalism and would have accepted a job on the Grand Junction newspaper, but the wages were too low. Instead she taught school in Fruita for 4 years. "I first came to the San Juan Basin to visit a college friend who lived in Cortez. I stayed in Durango a while at the Sterling Hotel which was operated by Lawrence Wiseman's mother. Mrs. Wiseman and I became good friends and she took me with her on a visit to Ignacio to see Lawrence and Margaret. It was on this visit that I met my future husband. Fay Jones worked at the sugar beet mill in Brighton during the fall and early winter. During spring and summer he came back lo Ignacio to help his aunt and uncle run the Commercial Hotel which was located on Goddard Avenue where the recent Bill Liesa auto repair shop Is located." The hotel has burned down since then, but in its day Charlotte says it was a very nice place and an interesting place to slay. "All kinds of travelers, including Washington officials here on Tribal business stayed there. The parlor was a place of lively conversation and fun in the evenings. The restaurant served delicious food. A complete Sunday dinner cost forty cents." Inflation operated then too. Charlotte says Louis Morris recalls what a blow it was when the Sunday dinners increased for forty cents to fifty cents per meal. "I stayed there in the hotel several days. They were so short handed that I was offered a job and took it It was there I got acquainted with Fay. We were married in November of 1933. Fay worked in the mill in Brighton till Christmas time. Then we came back to Ignacio." 89 �'! 'l -i '! '! '! ' l ) Steady jobs were almost impossible to find during those depression years, when Fay and Charlotte got a chance to buy the Ignacio Chiefton, they took it. At that time the Chiefton was located in one half of the building now occupied by Rudy's Lounge. The other half of the building was Mr. Stauffer's Barber Shop (Jesse Hott's father). Charlotte was the editor and reporter and Fay was the publisher and advertising manager. It wasn't easy to keep a newspaper alive during the 30's. Many subscriptions were paid in produce rather than with cash. One man paid his with strawberries for years. ) ) The Joneses have three children; Malcolm lives in La Porte, Texas, Jacqueline Rea lives in Denver and Kathleen Rosenberg lives in Oakland, New Jersey. ) ) -) ) ) ) ) } Faye died in 1968. Since then Charlotte has spent quite a bit of time traveling. She has been to Canada twice to visit relatives and, also, on a bus tour of Mexico. No one is surprised that Charlotte can't quit writing. She has written a number of short stories andis currently working on a history of the Presbyterian Church in this area. Every month Mrs. Jones voluntarily supplies most of the news for this newsletter. A healthy interest in life is rewardin~ and invigorating. Charlotte certainly has this. "When I first came to Ignacio, I thought it was a fascinating place with it's variety of cultures and traditions and its beautiful surroundings. I still do." July, 1975 -- Shelby Smith ) ) ) ) ) J ) _) _) J ..) J J J J .J J J J J J J J J 89 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Francis Jones and Hazel (Hildinger) Jones Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1976-05 Subject The topic of the resource Jones, Francis; Jones, Hazel (Hildinger); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Francis Jones and Hazel (Hildinger) Jones based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the May, 1976 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jones, Francis; Jones, Hazel (Hildinger) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby