6 10 216 https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/ed5286b388de290956668b526fe7c024.pdf 5a1a8ebdd0915762077f447f01040aaa PDF Text Text JANNIE ELIZABETH (Terry) KING Janie King was born at Wheeler, Texas, on the wide plains of the West in 1911. Her father, Thomas Ethridge Terry was born at Chickasha, Oklahoma Territory in 1887 and her mother, Lenore Estelle (Bailey) Terry was born at Fayettevi1 le, Arkansas. The instinc! to go west lured the Terrys just as it has thousands of others. "In 1916," Jannie says, "my father sold his farm at Wheeler, put all he could carry in two covered wagons and started west. Though I was only five at the time, I have several clear memories of the trip. One night we camped beside a lake near Groom, Texas. With water so scarce on the plains, mother did not lose the chance to do the family washing. Except for some of our cattle dying of blackleg, the only unpleasant incident of the trip was an encounter with a Gypsy woman who picked my father's pocket. My parents were young, totally unfamiliar with the habits of Gypsies and therefore, an easy prey. This was not our last experience with Gypsies." "We settled at Porter, New Mexico, where I went to school all 12 years. All the farming was dry land. Dad raised broom corn, maize and hay. We cultivated big gardens and raised chickens, pigs and cows. For sweetening we grew sugar cane. When it was mature, we cut and peeled it and took it to my uncle, who could make the best sorghum molasses you ever tasted. He had a press powered by horses to squeeze the Juice out of the cane. The juice flowed into a gently sloping metal trough under which a fire was built. As the Juice slowly flowed back and forth down the channels of the trough, it boiled until it was thickened to the right degree. We ground our own corn with a hand mill. It made delicious bread. Life was good in New Mexico until the dry years came." "When I finished school in 1929, I married Weaver King. We did OK on the farm until the drought of the 30's when the bottom dropped out of prices. II got so bad we were selling eggs for 5 cants a dozen and ten gallon cans of cream for $2.50. We got rid of our caWe and bought sheep, thinking they could find something to eat even if the cows couldn't. In those dry summers we got the most terrific electric storms, but little or no rain. The winds would raise clouds of dust as black as night. After the wind passed, the dust stood 2 inches deep on the fence posts.' "Our son, Tommy, was born in 1935. Until then we and a lot of other folks had hung on thinking the dry years would surely end and things would get back to normal, but it kept right on. We began hearing talk of moving on. Some had done it. One of our neighbors had gone to Western Colorado to look things over. He came back excited and told us, 'That's the Rock Candy Mountain out there. Apples hang from the trees, gardens are full of everything you want to eat. Rivers are full of fish and the woods full of game. All you have to buy is coal oil, salt and baking powder. The rest is for the taking.' Weaver and I got excited too. We asked a lot of questions and finally said, 'Tell us some of the bad things', but he answered, 'No, I can tell you're coming anyway. You'll find out the bad things when you gel there.' 'Well, he was right. We sold out and came to La Plata County, Colorado in 1936. 96 �") .,,.., ") ") ~ 'l ) i ) ) 7 , ) ) .) ) ) ) Weaver sold all his sheep and got 8 horses. He and a friend made one trip to Oxford just to bring the horses. They drove to Albuquerque and up through Cuba. It was the last of September before he was ready to take Tommy and me. One of our neighbors loaded our Pinto riding horse and its colt and all our possessions into his truck and headed west. Fearing the unpaved roads north of Albuquerque if it rained, he drove straight to Gallup, up to Shiprock and then to Aztec. It was a beautiful trip. As we got to the Colorado line just below Bondad, all I could see were great bluffs and rocky hillsides. I asked 'Is it all like this?' They assured me it was not. We settled into a place southeast of the old Hood School east of Durango and later rented places near Oxford." "As soon as we got here the drawbacks showed up. On the first Sunday it snowed. The whole winter it snowed and snowed until I thought it would never quit and in the spring I thought it would never melt. That was one drawback. The other was mud. Oxford mud ought to be world famous, because it's really mud. It was unbelievable. At first we couldn't cope with it. Weaver tried to feed the stock out of the wagon. Chunks of mud the size of me fell off the wheels. He soon learned not to even try it. unless the ground was frozen. The snow could be just as rough. I've seen horses get so tired trying to pull the wagon through it, they just lie down in the snow. After we got a car, we often had to leave it parked at the Oxford Store and walk home on the railroad tracks." } ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) .J J .J ...J ...J "That first winter little Tommy (15 months old) and I were snowbound many weeks. But we didn't mind. He loved to play in the snow and I'll have to admit I did, too. We had plenty of firewood and a barrel of canned goods, so we made it through the winter just fine. During the war years we milked 14 cows. Prices began to rise. For a while it looked as if the price of cream would go to a dollar a pound, but it reached 99 cents and that's as far as it got. We bought our farm north of Oxford with cream checks. Weaver was the ditch rider, did odd jobs and worked the farm to make a living. The highlight of his year was the elk season." The King's two children still live in the area. Tommy married Janie Baird and lives in Ignacio. Beth married Jim Sower and lives in Bayfield. Weaver died in 1965. Jannie stayed on the farm for 3 years, then moved to Ignacio. When we asked whether she ever had second thoughts about moving to Colorado, Jannie says, "You see we didn't leave. I've been here 42 years and it all adds up pretty well." Shelby Smith - November, 1978 _) ...J ...J ...J ...) ...) J J J J J 97 � 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 Jannie Elizabeth (Terry) King Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978-11 Subject The topic of the resource King, Jannie Elizabeth (Terry); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Jannie Elizabeth (Terry) King based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the November, 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 King, Jannie Elizabeth (Terry) 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/b74e1b1f4fde1f62a6f80c6260742410.pdf 8290a7f9dbc592b8e9ffeffc88c3e4c5 PDF Text Text BONNIE and ESSIE (Richards) KENT Essie Burch Richards, the daughter of Sarah Burch and Bob Richards, was born at Bayfield August 5, 1916. "We lived in a little adobe house still standing on the place next to Jack Frost's farm. I don't remember my mother. She died when I was very young, so my grandparents largely raised me. My grandfather, Robert Burch had all kinds of animals, turkeys, sheep, cattle and chickens. The apple trees he planted are still there, but the strawberry patch has died out." Essie started school at the Allen Day School, then went to the Bayfield school for grades 4-7. She finished high school at the Indian School in Albuquerque. "The Albuquerque School was mostly a vocational school to learn farming, home economics, etc. One thing I liked was the military training. We wore uniforms and every morning we had drills. Then on Sundays a lot of people from town came out to watch our dress parades." - Essie was one of six students chosen to be sent to Pennsylvania for special nurses training, but about the time she was ready to go her grandfather needed her help at home. So she never got to go. Essie had, of course, ridden horses all her life. So no one thought it was particularly unusual for her uncle to ask her help to break and train his horses. Essie was doing just that when she met her future husband. Bonnie Kent was hired to help break the horses, also. The two of them took an immediate liking for one another and were married in 1937. Bonnie Kent was born near Ignacio in 1918. His parents were Graves Stone Kent and Ada Rabbit Kent. They had a home near the Oxford Tract. When Bonnie was very small, the house was struck by lightning and everything was lost. Graves continued raising sheep and cattle on the open range until he got a land allotment east of Ignacio where Ada still lives. There were a few automobiles around when Bonnie was a child, but most people still used horses and wagons or buggies. "The best I can remember," Bonnie says, "a new buggy cost $300-$400. A real nice one cost about $500. There were buggy repair shops just like there are auto repair shops today. You could buy new parts or the blacksmiths could rebuild the rims and spokes and other parts that wore out." Work on the farms was hard in those days, but Bonnie and Essie both remember that life with good feeling. "In the haying time we loaded the cut hay on slips (sled-like platforms pulled by a team) and hauled it to the barn. If it was a grain field, we hired a man with a binder to cut and bind the grain into shocks. Then someone brought a thrashing machine to the field. We threw the shocks into the machine and it separated the grain from the straw. The men held cloth sacks under the spout to catch the grain. Others stood by to sew the sacks 94 �closed. Life was better on the farm then. It was hard work, but we enjoyed it. Everybody kept busy and helped one another." , } ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) After they were married, Bonnie and Essie stayed with Bonnie's parents for a while. Bonnie worked at irrigating in the summer. He was a line rider over in the Piedra country and then worked on the farm at the Ignacio Indian School. About 1946 the Kents got a farm east of Ignacio where they built the home in which they still live. Bonnie was elected to the Tribal Council for three terms. He also was appointed to the Tribal Activities Board which was responsible for planning and organizing rodeos. The old rodeo grounds were next to the Ute Park where the ball park is now. This involvement with the rodeo got Bonnie interested in raising stock again, not for the meat market, but for rodeo stock. Before long he had quite a few head of bucking horses and some Brahma bulls. "We really enjoyed the rodeo business. We rented the animals to rodeo promoters around the 4-corners area at Farmington, Cortez, Pagosa, Dulce, Durango and Ignacio. Once in a while a dealer would take a few of our animals clear to Texas or Oklahoma for the rodeo finals. Most people think rodeo animals are really mean, but they're not. On their home pasture most of them are as gentle as pets. It's only in the ring they turn into a different animal." The Kents kept their rodeo stock until Richard, their oldest child moved away from Ignacio. They have four children. Richard now lives in. Oregon. Eunice died at the age of 17. Phoebe still lives at Ignacio. Their 4th child, Beulah, was chosen to be Miss Southern Ute, the Four-Corner's Indian Princess and was a runner-up to Miss Indian America at Sheridan, Wyoming. Beulah represented Miss Indian America at many events in this country and once in Europe. ) _) J _) Bonnie and Essie have gone to the Bear Dances and the Sun Dances for many years. "It's still done about the same as always, but in the old days they were a little stricter. No food or drink near the ceremony and no intoxicated people allowed. It was more religious and less social. We liked the old way a little better." .J June, 1976 - Shelby Smith _) ._) .J .J ..._) .._) ._) ._) J J .J ..._) ...J 95 � 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 Bonnie Kent and Essie (Richards) Kent Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1976-06 Subject The topic of the resource Kent, Bonnie; Kent, Essie (Richards) Description An account of the resource Biography of Bonnie Kent and Essie (Richards) Kent based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the June, 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 Kent, Bonnie; Kent, Essie (Richards) 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/916af43c187df0eaf773b6952c3f636b.pdf 7f3432fb882b67ba845f5c344e8c03c9 PDF Text Text (MARY) ADA (Russell) RABBITT KENT Ada Russell was born in a tepee at Breen, Colorado, in 1893. Her father, John Russell, was a member of the Moache Band of Utes. Her mother, Mary (Ada is not certain of her name), died when Ada was very young. Ada had five brothers and one sister, her identical twin. After their mother died, the family began selling the land at Breen. In the legal transactions the names of the twins were reversed. Ada originally was named Mary, but in the documents was called Ada and Ada was called Mary. Rather than disrupt the legality of the land documents, the family decided to continue calling Mary, Ada, and Ada, Mary. A short time later the original Ada died. So the original Mary, now called Ada, has preserved her sister's name for 84 years. Ada came to the Indian School at Ignacio, which she attended for 2-3 years. On a trip back to Breen, when Ada was about 10, she fell from a horse, striking her head on a rock. Shortly afterward she began to lose her vision. She was sent away to several hospitals during the next 2 years. When she was home, one of the medicine men, a sun-dance chief named Cumada, treated her. She credits him more than the hospitals for bringing a full recovery of her sight. John Russell sold the remainder of his land at Breen and moved to a farm just north of the present cluster homes north of Ignacio. Edna Russell and Sarah Pinnecoose are Ada's half sisters from her dad's 2nd marriage. Ada lived in Dulce for 5 years. She enjoyed the train rides between Lumberton and Breen. In 1911 Ada married Graves Stone Kent. His land was several miles east of Ignacio, where the Kents still live. The Kents raised cattle, chickens and horses. They gathered and dried wild herbs and wild potatoes for winter. The government supplied dried rice and beans. Winters were much worse in those days. Snow would pile halfway up the windows. The winter Isabel was born, Ada says, "You couldn't even see the fencepost." During the early years the mortality rate among all people was high. Many of Ada's relatives died of whooping cough and pneumonia. The Kent children who survived to adulthood are Bonny, Katy Seal, Ida, and Isabel. Four of the others died of the flu in 1918. Some died without names because it was not the custom to give official names to the little ones until they were enrolled in the tribe. Shortly after Ada and Graves were married, they started on a trip to Breen. Before they got far, a man came running up to them carrying a tiny, crying baby which he had found deserted in the woods. Ada could tell the little girl was no more than 1 or 2 days old and starving. She took the baby and began thinking how to feed her. The solution was rather ingenious. They returned home, caught a nanny goat and having no bottle or nipple, washed the teats of the goat and let the baby suckle it. She drank greedily. They took their live milk machine with them in the wagon to Breen and got along just fine. Ada soon figured out the baby was the illegitimate child of one of her grandfather's relatives. She raised little Annie (Ada doesn't tell her last name) until she was old enough to go to boarding school. "I went from the goat to the bottle with my own children," Ada says. "I raised my own, part of my grandchildren and never asked any pay because I love children." 92 �,..., ,..., 'l ~ 'J ,..., "My father and grandparents always taught me never to argue or fight with my husband and not to talk about him behind his back. I did what they said and we were happy. That is why it was so hard to lose him when he died." ) J ) ") ) ) ") Ada remembers how people were never alone with their work in the old days. They helped one another plant, plow and harvest. They traded and shared their food so that no one was without the necessities. Ada conceded that life today, though it is very different, is nice because it is a lot easier. She is very grateful to have lived long enough to see her grandchildren and her greatgrandchildren. J She added, "I've never been in jail and never been drunk in my life." We believe her! Ada has been a responsible, good person all her life, the kind of person who helps build up a community and leaves good memories of themselves. ) By Shelby Smith, Translated by Phoebe Cloud in December, 1977 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . ) _) J ..J J -.J ,.J ,.J -.J ...) J -.J J J -.J J ...J ..) 93 � 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 Ada Rabbit (Russell) Kent Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1977-12 Subject The topic of the resource Kent, Ada Rabbitt (Russell); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Ada Rabbitt (Russell) Kent based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith on December, 1977. 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 Kent, Ada Rabbitt (Russell) 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; Cloud, Phoebe 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 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/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/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/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/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/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