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A1993-005.0132 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A rough neck, lumber worker, shoe shine boy and water vendor, Eloi Longoria talks about medical facilities in area; newspaper in McAllen; Pancho Villa incidents; Texas Rangers; living conditions; burning of U.S. ammunition warehouse in McAllen during war; and oil wells where he worked.
A1993-005.0133 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Agiripina C. Vasquez, conducted by Severo Contreras Jr. Born in Sarajosa, Coahuilla, Mexico Agiripina, and her husband Francisco discuss their lives: how there were 25 members in her family; how they came to the USA in 1911; stories about the devil; the ritual of baptizing dolls; her marriage & customs surrounding marriage; the way girls were raised & received proposals; witchcraft; homeopathic cures; a hidden treasurer still in the Frio River; Lenten rituals & customs; how to make tortillas; and how iron was used to keep warm.
A1993-005.0134 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	"Flashback Memoirs" Mardel Goehring talks of settlement of London community, which was bought from the King Ranch; she tells of her family life and ranch; vegetable producing; ginning cotton; school at London; segregation; sports; doctors; and farming. Her father started the London community.
A1993-005.0135 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	She talks about schools she taught at; model T; plowing with a mule; the country store; travel; 1919 hurricane; horse & buggy doctors; Indians; law enforcement; World War I; religion; epidemics; yellow fever; hard times. Tape is broken. Could not get the recording.
A1993-005.0136 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Goliad, Texas, William M. Neyland was in the hardware business and a real estate manager. He talks about his father's early life, the Civil War; railroads; candymaking at Goliad by Louie Fritz; father's attempt at farming; black smithing at Goliad; school; dances; drought of 1917; reasons for going to Corpus Christi and early reactions to the community; shrimp production; house at Cooper St and early businesses.
A1993-005.0137 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Sie Ponton, conducted by Sharon Sisemore. Born in Yokum, Texas, Ponton worked for Standard Oil, PPG, San Antonio - Aransas Pass Railroad. He discusses his birthplace; schools and sports; road conditions, cars; farms and sharecroppers; industry; banks; stores; telephones; the Hurricane of 1919; droughts, floods; Prohibition; Bandits and gangsters including Pretty Boy Floyd and his friend Palmroy; newspapers; the Great Depression; discrimination; the Ku Klux Klan; weddings; hangings; Indians; cattle rustlers; and festivals.
A1993-005.0138 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Ralph Lanier, conducted by Rhonda Sue Hansel. A former school teacher & superintendent of schools, Lanier discuses school sports; land prices; crops; labor; weather; 1919 Riviera Beach; Corpus Christi; "wetback" stories; stores; discrimination; roads; dried meat; ranches; bandits; floods and dams; communication; laborers; Mexicans and pay; doctors; folklore; sand; epidemics; folk remedies; Negros; The Great Depression; King Ranch accusations of hunting rights about the Blantons.
A1993-005.0139 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Leguna Seca, Tx., Roberto Vela was the Tax Assessor Collector in Hidalgo County. He talks about schools; travel methods; World War I induction; 1914 bandit raids; discrimination; justice in South Texas; smuggling, battle at Norias; churches; doctors; superstitions; weddings; Texas Rangers; corruption in South Texas; the railroad system; and the Great Depression.
A1993-005.0140 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in San Antonio, Texas, Nicholas Ortiz tells a ghost story; a treasure story; about Pancho Villa; agriculture; roads; communications; weather; law enforcement; bandits at Tilden; politics; smuggling during Prohibition; influenza and camp in World War I; daily work schedule; religion; discrimination; home remedies and the "evil eye".
A1993-005.0142 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mary Lander talks about Rev. Billy Sunday's revivals in Dallas; North Texas Female College; her marriage to Dr. Lander; methods of tithing to church; superstitions; songs; camp meetings; Ku Klu xKlan; law & order, racial discrimination; 1917 Influenza; and home remedies "Mary Elizabeth Lander" Memoirs
A1993-005.0144 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mildred Garner tells about the founding and settling of Robstown; early settlers; stores; doctors; newspapers; county buildings; weather; flood in 1916; the hurricane 1919; an epidemic of 1918; Mexican raiding party of Villa; churches; pharmacies; friends--J.K. Northway, Richard M. Kleberg; mayors and city marshalls.
A1993-005.0145 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Having worked for the Highway Dept. he talks about the highways he remembers. His father was a civil engineer in 1920's and he tells about that. He also talks about construction of roads,and the uses of fresnos.
A1993-005.0147 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	She tells about schools in the area; roads; industry; and creeks; hunting; Dalton gange; dances; social life and railroads "Creeks in Northern Live Oak County" Memoirsd
A1993-005.0148 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	This interview was conducted by Felix Garcia of Laredo, then working for The Laredo Times. In 1973 he was an agent for State Farm Insurance in Laredo. This was donated by Xavier Perez (this is a copy of the interview) and there are no donor forms.
A1993-005.0149 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	John Chapman, owner & manager of Chapman Ranch, tells about buying the land; of the community that grew around it; the school (1927); division and sale of Chapman Ranch; 1919 Hurricane; sale of some of the Chapman Ranch land to King Ranch; change of Ranch to a rental farm property; and the post office established there.
A1993-005.0150 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Enrique Sandoval talks about his ancestors; schools; roads; agriculture; banking; smuggling; Ft. McIntosh; immigration; folklore; Mexican Revolution, and World War I.
A1993-005.0151 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with William D. Centilli Sr., conducted by Margaret Centilli. Centilli discusses schools, 1921-1941 in Del Rio; transportation in southwest Texas; bandits; traffic; electricity and gas; water; childhood diseases; doctors and medicine; groceries; entertainment; superstitions; and Indians. Part I and Part II
A1993-005.0152 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Theodore Carr tells of his early life; marine corp; leg operation. World War I; United Fruit Co. ; U.S. Custom's Service and his retirement; surveying experience; World War iI; sharpshooter; television show. Part I and Part II
A1993-005.0154 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Bayside, TX., Sam Stephens was a farmer & rancher & worked in construction. He tells about John Filson, "Ghost Writer to Daniel Boone"; Cleve Bailey, FDR congressman; train robbery during Civil War, steamboat; dysentary; Driscoll family; Dodge City; Sam Bass legends; money legends--Lafite gold; Ku Klux Klan; bootleggers; Pancho Villa sacre; communal efforts; round-up; and school experiences.
A1993-005.0155 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Edna May Tubbs tells about landownership, farmland and early plows; farm workers; early settlers, electric & water plant; park, hotel, church, schools, economy, business; 1916 hurricane; bankruptcy; first grain drier; oil industry; Celanese; and bank robbery. This is called "Notes on Bishop" (She is Mrs. Gail [Edna May] Tubbs) SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews. Signed consent form in donor file (Edna May Tubbs)
A1993-005.0156 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Carl Bridgers, conducted by Evangeline Lozano. Mr. Bridgers worked in the oil industry; then at the Mental Health & Retardation Bureau. He discusses his personal background; settling in Bishop; the recycling plant in Bishop; Celanese plant construction; ghost story from Celenase; World War II; Klu Klux Klan activities; and Mexican / American relations. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews. Signed consent form and summary of interview in donor file.
A1993-005.0157 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Maria M. Valverde was born in Mexico. She ran a filling station and country store. She talks about Cinco de Mayo and Gregorio Gonzales; discrimination; the Catholic Church; treament of Mexican Americans in schools; difference between the east and west sides of Bishop; Mother Lane; the Ku Klux Klan; Prohibition; folk medicine; entertainment in Bishop and the town of Julia. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews. Signed consent form in donor file.
A1993-005.0158 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Ernest Miller tells about his background; about Mr. F.Z. Bishop and early Bishop history, as he had heard it; and about getting supplies for a store. He talks about a healer, Mother Lane, and a tourist court with barracks for women & men, that were built for her when she was in town. He tells how Bishop was an agriculture community. He tells a joke about Pancho Villa; about a bank robbery; the celebration of "Cinco de Mayo"; the "Club de Norifica"; and three different schools. He describes treatment of Mexican-Americans and black Americans. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0160 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Viola W. McKinney was born in Austin, Texas. She tells about her early years in Bishop, TX; about the railroad depot, business, social life, her daughter's schooling, churches, the Ku Klux Klan; ethnic relations; Mr. Bishop; World War II; the Depression; the History Club; the Hurricanes of 1916 & 1919; and Mother Lane. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0161 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	He gives a description of Bishop; Mr. F.Z. Bishop; Roads; German community; KuKluxKlan and beating of Rev. Moebus. He tells about school; Mother Lane; Prohibition; World War II; Recipe for homebrew beer; farming; Depression; bank robbery; hurricanes SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0162 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Early Bishop, Texas; schools; farming; Droughts; Hurricanes; Hail storms; prohibition; bootlegging; Mother Lane; Ku Klux Klan; Negro story; bank robbery; Mr. Bishop and land promotion; oil industry; politics in 1928; first post office in Bishop; Early churches; Saturdays in Bishop downtown; Folk mediciene; Early doctors SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0163 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	"Early Days of Bishop Memoirs" Interview with Mrs. G.R. Drury and J.C. Whittens. Mrs. Drury tells about Bishop; the Depression; hurricanes; farming transportation; Churches; Schools; Social life; Medicine; Mother Lane (Mercedes Pena Lane); Mr. F.Z. Bishop; hand labor; German people; the Ku Klux Klan; Racial feelings; Prohibition; Oil industry; and social clubs SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0164 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Pedro Alvarado talks about "Early Bishop"; farms in Bishop and wages for farming; living conditions; types of houses; friends; schools; discrimination against Mexican Americans in Bishop schools; the first Mexican family that was allowed to attend Bishop schools; and about Johnny Marshall. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0165 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Jose Maria Gutierrez tells of his family's arrival in Bishop; farming, crops, weather, road conditions, wages, migrant labor, education, schools, doctors in Bishop; and discrimination SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0166 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Humberto Gonzalez talks about segregation of schools; and discrimination practices in Bishop. He tells of hurricanes; the Depression; animosity between Blacks and Mexican-Americans; Mother Lane; Hanging of a Mexican American. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0167 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	She talks about Mexican-Americans in schools; segregation; discrimination; politics; illegal voting procedures; hiring practices; school board actions; and the fact that job applications were thrown away. She ran for justice of the peace and talks about illigal political actions. She was the secretary for Bilingual Ed. in Bishop. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0168 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Salina, TX., Betty Woods was a retired teacher. She talks about "Bishop History: Mr F.Z. Bisholp". She talks about F.Z. Bishop, the German community; Mr. Bishop's bankruptcy; droughts; hurricanes; personal reminiscences; Mr. Bishop's family; and women's fashions. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0169 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Ira Imken talks about the Imken family arrival in Bishop; the family grocery store; German settlers; farmers and roads; schools; the Depression; Ku Klux Klan; Burning of Lutheran Church; railroads; churches; Mother Lane; doctors; radio; man at jail burning; the sons of Herman; Mr. Bishop; the lake; and the hotel SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0171 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Grand View, Texas, James Harrell West was a grain dealer involved in farming, and in banking and investing. He talks about "Bishop History". He tells about early Bishop land, roads, schools, business, cotton gins, ranches, Germans, the town on Saturday and bootlegging. He talks about F.Z. Bishop, the town of Concordia; the drug store, hurricanes, the flue epidemic, Mother Lane, the Ku Klux Klan; the grain elevator, downtown Bishop trading situation & the industrial plant. He was at one time Mayor of Bishop. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0172 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Ernest L. Miller, conducted by James L. Smith. Miller drove a car for F.Z. Bishop, and discusses road conditions; farming; the decline of Bishop; anti-German feelings in World War I; the Prohibition; the 1928 election; a Negro incident; the Klu Klux Klan; World War II and Germans; Rat Row and Mexican Town; Mother Lane, weather, raising animals; The Great Depression; butchering and canning.
A1993-005.0173 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	R.T. Bob Whitten talks about his arrival in Bishop, TX; Mr. F.Z. Bishop, a bank robbery; Prohibition, influenza; sports; A&I in 1925; Mother Lane, anti-German feelings, the Ku Klux Klan; revivals; labor, churches, transportation, the 1919 Storm; telephones; bankruptcy of Mr. Bishop; the road through the King Ranch. Mr. Whitten included a handwritten account of this tape. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0175 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Georgia, W.E. Whitten and his son R.T. Whitten talks about his arrival in Bishop, TX; Mr. F.Z. Bishop; hurricanes; bankruptcy; the cemetery; the Ku Klux Klan; the death of a prisoner in jail; churches; roads, Mother Lane; the Depression; farms, schools, transportation; his home & farm, town buildings and school buildings. He was a city commissioner and banker as well as a civic leader for many years. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0176 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Sue Taylor Miller, conducted by Tom Morton. Miller discusses her arrival in Bishop; the Hotel; train schedule; school; churches; roads and transportation; Zelma Butts; family life; her father and Mr. Bishop; her first hurricane; The Great Depression; her impression of Mr. Bishop; Mr. Bishop setting up Three Rivers and Rangerville; and other memoirs.
A1993-005.0177 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Forice W. Bull, conducted by Darleen Wilkinson. Mr. Bull discusses his move to Bishop; working at Celanese; his schooling including busing; World War II; roads; farming; weather; and Mother Lane. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.
A1993-005.0178 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A retired teacher, Myrtle W. Ropert talks about her parents- Eliz & Robert Wakeland, who bought their farm near Bishop in 1914. She talks about rattlesnakes, 1916 hurricane, 1917 drought, 1919 hurricane, 1922 hailstorm, 1926 flood, 1936 blizzard. She tells about schools, teachers, and prohibition marches. SEE ALSO: REFERENCE FILE: BISHOP, TX - HISTORY for term paper based on interviews.