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A1993-005.0089 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A farmer he talks about farming in S. Tx; the cost of clearing land, harvesting grain by hand, flax, cotton, vegetables; insects & control. He talks about Richard Miller- first feed lot in Orange Grove.
A1993-005.0090 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Austin, T.A. Setliff he was a farmer and rancher. He tells about his childhood in Austin; early memoirs of a farm near Pilot Knob; schools near Creedmoor, TX; farm work after school; illness in the family forced to sell farm and move to South Texas in 1929. Talks about the wooden bridge joining Portland and Corpus; his father was the forman for Dr. Howze's farm; his attending school at West Oso. Includes notes written prior to interview.
A1993-005.0091 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Midway, TX. A.P. Turner talks about his early childhoon, working on a farm, and moving to Galveston when he was 10. He started school in Galveston & went through 7th grade when he was put in a children's home. He picked cotton after to school and later lived with his Uncle, 1929-1930. He worked for Houston Tool Co. & his sister worked for railroad; During the Depression he got a job with the railroad and was sent to Kingsville. Stayed at the old Casa Ricardo. Mr. Pettus was general foreman; worked as a laborer, oiler; bridge & building section. Describes his life & work. 1945 went to work in water dept. where he became foreman in 1967. Describes Kingsville shop. Tells of 1922 strike; of Roundhouse
A1993-005.0092 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	She was the chief probate officer of Nueces County for many years. She tells about her family; the pier in Corpus; Saturday night in town; 1919 Hurricane; early stores & schools; farming; folk remedies; Ku Klux Klan activities; bazaars; revivals; ballot box stuffing and the Depression. Tape missing
A1993-005.0094 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Dungeness, Washington, Exa Wall was a school teacher for 8 years, worked for the Texas Employment Commission for 21 years, and was an artist from 1925-1972. She talks about her school days and childhood experiences including such things as old stoves, making starch, curing hogs, making butter, the sugar mill, Christmas and making soap.
A1993-005.0095 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Ruth Bellamah, a former school teacher in Kingsville. Her husband was the head of the Band at A&I and the music building is named for him. She talks about her family background; school conditions & major changes during her time; farming; forms of communications, including phones, telegrams, etc.; doctors and folk remedies; road conditions; transportation; merchandise in stores; changes in her church; racial conditions & crime.
A1993-005.0096 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Sydney R. Weisiger, conducted by himself for Charles Stevens. Weisiger discusses the growth of the Victoria, Texas community, including information about the schools; roads; agriculture; trains; and life in general.
A1993-005.0097 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Gus Fischer talks about his childhood in Austria; life before World War I; Austria during a visit in 1971; Folklore and jokes; moving to San Antonio; pressures on German immigrants; life in Schattel, Texas
A1993-005.0099 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Eva Garcia, long time resident of San Diego, Texas. She talks about life in San Diego while she has lived there. She tells about her rural education; about life on a "plantation", including daily activities; a description of a small town plaza; and about weddings and funerals in the Mexican American community. NO DONOR FORMS.
A1993-005.0100 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Edyth Brehm talks of her life in earlier times in the Valley. Includes information on Sam Fordyce; on education, religion, weather conditions, effects of World War I, the Depression, and things to do.
A1993-005.0101 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Judge Bolar Brown former county judge in Kleberg County; Two tapes. Part I and Part II.
A1993-005.0102 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Madelyn Fisher Stone, conducted by Janelle J. Shepherd. Born in Portland, Texas, Stone discusses land grants; article about Sen. Willacy; the fisrt store in Portland & its owner; Mrs. Reed & her fence-rider husband; a cigar factory; hunting, railroads & schools; Hall's Bayou & the Bascule Baridge; oyster reef discovery story; hardships of early times; and about what they bought. There is a synopsis of the interview done by the interviewer and a summary of answers by the narrator about what she says on the tape.
A1993-005.0103 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Reynolds C. Rossington, a farmer and farm labor, talks about Texas Rangers in Hebbronville, life in Uvalde, gun smugglers at Carrizo Springs; picking up ranch payroll as a boy; eye-witness account of shooting of father of Texas Ranger, Alfred Allee; snake stories; Japanese internment camp at Crystal City, and community of Cometa.
A1993-005.0104 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Herb Connally talks of his family's arrival in Texas in 1906; the Drought of 1914-1918; Sheriff Vail Innes of Bee County; Memorable governor's race of Ferguson & Pappy Lee O'Daniels; Texas Rangers, Hamond (Salveston Strike), Baker, W.W. Sterling, Atley. Describes mob justice & Lynching of Negro rapist; murders of two sheriffs; County Fairs; Home remedies; and hunting
A1993-005.0105 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Willie Hinnant. "My 86 Years on the Picacho Ranch."
A1993-005.0106 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mr. Eskil Hedberg. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hedberg are heard on this tape. They talk about early times in Lyford; clearing land; farming; killing of Mr. Austin; World War I; Great Depression
A1993-005.0107 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Z.L. Butts talks of early Bishop, clearing land, telephones, roads, railroads, early Kingsville, social life, early farming, etc. There is no consent form, however the audio can be listened to in the Archives.
A1993-005.0108 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Walter Brown, retired farmer, talks about his schooling; work on the farm, including crops especially sugar cane; death of his brother in a gun fight; sharecropping; roads; Negro discrimination; home remedies & doctors; description of salons & drinking; and the tobacco crop.
A1993-005.0109 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	D.A. Barber talks about 1903-1940 cattle drives;the grocery business; and the Depression
A1993-005.0110 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Cayetano Rodriguez, a driller of water wells, cowhand, field hand and King Ranch Cook for 24 years, tells about foods, preparation; types of ranch work; weather; medical cures; customs; and racial feelings.
A1993-005.0111 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mrs. John Boatright discusses sixty-six years of living in Mathis, Texas.
A1993-005.0112 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Ernesto Tiblier, a long time San Diego resident, talks about his early childhood and the things he did as he grew up. He talks about his parents (his mother was born in San Diego) and the grocery store that they owned and operated there. He tells about his employment and life in general.
A1993-005.0113 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A.B. Cannon Sr. talks about school; entertainment; roads; stores and banks; farming; oil, communication; railroad; autos; law enforcement; churches; county wide picnics; special holidays; race relations and rural doctors. Part I and Part II
A1993-005.0114 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Captain Jack Ashmore about aircraft pilots in Vietnam as part of Mr. Rouse's Master's thesis.
A1993-005.0115 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Major John W. Marshall, a former U.S. Army (Signal Corps) officer retire; he talks about Ft. Ringgold; Rio Grande City; Ft. Brown; Ft. McIntosh; Laredo; the Rio Grande River; Springfield 30 calbre rifle; SOS beef has on toast; and Dr. Mario Ramirez a physician from Roma, Texas.
A1993-005.0116 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Myrtle Moore did not know her birth day but talked about her childhood near Sinton & Sodville including her daily routine on the farm. She tells about churches, changes in terrain from brush to cultivation, weather extremes, Hurricane of 1919; 1929 flood; and her Father as County commissioner & Sheriff.
A1993-005.0117 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Ida, La., Ruby Ober talks about the Texas A&I Lantana celebration; her husband's job in the oil fields when Humble started working on the King Ranch; the Depression; A&I in 1948; life in Andrews, Texas; about cowboys and whores; the Negro problems in West Texas; and early life in Lousiana
A1993-005.0120 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Manuel Rodriguez talks about his place of birth; where he first worked, on the King Ranch; then his work in Goliad and Odem. He tells about acquiring his farm near Odem and the work he put into it. He concludes with a few jokes.
A1993-005.0121 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mr. C.C. Sampson, a retired school principal, discusses conditions for black Americans in South Texas after he came to the area in 1930. He recalls stories that he has heard about earlier times. He talks about the lack of schools for black Americans, issues of discrimination, housing conditions, and general conditions.
A1993-005.0122 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mrs. T.A. Simons Jr., conducted by Debbie Simons. Mrs. Simons, a housewife and mother born in Beeville, TX, discusses when she came to Kingsville in 1915; the Great Depression; the railroad; politics; Sheriff Tom Mosley; the creation of South Texas Teachers College; public schools; John Gillette; transportation; churches; folklore; medicine; current events; the municipal building; the navy base being built in 1942; Enco; banks; development of Bishop & Riviera; Hurricanes of 1916 & 1919; roads in the county; Kingsville expansion to include Henrietta Heights & Shelton St.; racial problems; King Ranch wedding; and the outlaw Clyde Barrow. 2 - copies
A1993-005.0123 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Placido Junction, TX., Elida Everett Soliz was an elementary school teacher. She talks about the schools; the supt. of schools in San Diego, Jack T. Gladney; road conditions & transportation; Mexico & rafting the Rio Grande; Tom Everett, her uncle; hurricanes, smuggling; "quack" doctors; Mike Everett; the legend of La Llorona; Capt. Jack Everett, some Mexican riddles, songs, jokes; poems; Ernesto Everett, her father; celebrations & festivities, including weddings; and churches & religious ceremonies.
A1993-005.0124 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Sparks. Mrs. Sparks' family moved to Sinton, TX in 1908; Mr. Sparks' family moved to Sinton, Tex. in 1910. They talk about schools, students; buildings, transportation; the water wells; forms of communications including railroads, telephones, telegraphs; their daily life, stores, banks, churches; President Taft's visit to Texas; history of Corpus Christi, Taft, Sinton, Aransas Pass; the storms that hit South Texas in 1919 through 1970.
A1993-005.0125 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	C.G. Pete Woods, a blacksmith in Chive, Tex., talks about the death of Martin Wood, relatives in Dilley; horseshoeing explained; the first movie at Chive; roads to Ranger, Tex., Caddo, Tex., Graham, Tex.; watertanks; trucking in oil fields; ranching, Mother of Ranger Alle; ghost stories about Alle house; tales; treasurer hunters; killing at Cotulla; Oklahoma adventures; building a railroad across the Brazos.
A1993-005.0126 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	In this tape, Betty Woods tells about early days in Bishop; the King Ranch spotlight and border troubles. She tells about plow camps; settlers; schools, churches, the 1916 Hurricane; troop trains, circuit riders and weddings.
A1993-005.0127 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Texarkana, Ark. she talks about "Her Remberance of her life in Texarkana". She tells about the climate, the first time she used a phone; a horse & surrey; World War I; the 1920's dances; the Depression; motion pictures; trains; World War II; shopping centers and churches.
A1993-005.0128 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	No documentation/donor forms.
A1993-005.0129A Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	1 cassette. Interview with Ms. Florence Schuetz. Discusses her personal background; her teaching certificates; Falfurrias schools; Flowella (an old ghost town) and Don Pedrito Jaramillo; her early teaching experiences; Don Pedrito; the naming of the school flower and how Falfurrias got its name; the flooding in Falfurrias and watermelon industry. Ms. Florence Schuetz was the principal at Lasater School in Falfurrias. Two parts: A & B.
A1993-005.0129B Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	1 cassette. Interview with Ms. Florence Schuetz. Discusses her personal background; her teaching certificates; Falfurrias schools; Flowella (an old ghost town) and Don Pedrito Jaramillo; her early teaching experiences; Don Pedrito; the naming of the school flower and how Falfurrias got its name; the flooding in Falfurrias and watermelon industry. Ms. Florence Schuetz was the principal at Lasater School in Falfurrias. Two parts: A & B.
A1993-005.0129B Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	2 cassette. Interview with Florence Schuetz. Discusses her personal background; her teaching certificates; Falfurrias schools; Flowella (an old ghost town) and Don Pedrito Jaramillo; her early teaching experiences; Don Pedrito; the naming of the school flower and how Falfurrias got its name; the flooding in Falfurrias and watermelon industry. Ms. Florence Schuetz was the principal at Lasater School in Falfurrias. Two parts: A & B.
A1993-005.0131 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Francisco Sandoval starts with a brief personal history, then talks about life on a farm in Mexico, segregation, moonshining, Texas Rangers' atrocities; Mexican Revolution, bandits, and superstitions.