- A1993-005.0221
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Born in Flat, Texas, Mrs. A.A. Nix was a housewife. She talks about her life in Ricardo and the Nix family. She tells about wild burros; entertainment; religion, dairy farming; the church and family life. |
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- A1993-005.0223
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Memories of a child, Rosalie M. Dalton. |
- A1993-005.0224
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Born in Guy, TX., Paul Waskow talks about his early memories of hunting and food gathering; his home & family; early travel methods to school and social gatherings; memories of his forefathers; religious camp meetings and he tells about leaving home. |
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- A1993-005.0225
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Ricardo Ysasi, conducted by Praxesdis Jimenez. Ysasi discusses being a boy in school in the 1930s; methods of travel; farming; farming equipment; stores; the radio; witchcraft; a hanging in San Patricio; the roads in San Patricio; storms; labor; churches; discrimination; doctors & medicine; drinking; welfare; and clearing land for farming. There is no consent form, but the audio can be listened to in the Archives. |
- A1993-005.0228
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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"The J.C. Hogan Memoirs". A homebuilder and real estate person, Jack C. Hogan talks about moving to Corpus Christi in 1921; about the building & rebuilding of the community after severe weather conditions; the growth of Corpus & Portland; and the real estate & construction business. |
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- A1993-005.0230
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Born in Yorktown, TX., Melvin Adolph Noster was a counselor. He talks about Gustav Adolph Noster, who was born in Prussia and arrived in New Orleans on Jan 12, 1870. He became a citizen in 1873 in Clinton DeWitt County; married Ida Runge of Yorktown and opened a meat market there. Talks about entertainment; the meat business; schools; Germans during World War I and the reasons that Germans came to South Texas. |
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- A1993-005.0231
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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A retired farmer & oil field employee, Joe Johns also operated a combination Cafe, Beer Joint and Dance hall in the Rio Grande Valley. He tells about his activities. |
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- A1993-005.0232
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Adela Maza talks about the Mexican Revolution; World Wars I & II; and the Depression. |
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- A1993-005.0233
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Rev. Jerome Boos
Signed consent form in donor file. |
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- A1993-005.0234
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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A farmer, he tells about the rural schools he attended; the crops grown in South Texas; a typical work day; roads in rural areas; doctors taking care of farms in Taft area; flu epidemic of 1917; justice in the rural areas; stories told on farms; and the recreation of farmers. |
- A1993-005.0235
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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A farmer, Henry Lozano he talks about his early childhood and schooling; working on the farm; telephones and transportation systems of the day; minorities in Casterville, including Black and Mexican residents; his family background; doctors; and his life & that of his family in general. |
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- A1993-005.0236
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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A secretary & bookkeeper, Olive Moore Dineen talks about her arrival in Corpus Christi & describes the city; her introduction to southern hospitality; her employment with Mr. Dineen; the Hurricane of 1916 and the recovery; the Hurricane of 1919 and the first electric streetcar. |
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- A1993-005.0237
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Talks about the atrocities committed by the Texas Rangers in South Texas in about 1915. He especially talks about an incident with a man named Tomas Garza; and the attempt by a Mr. Garza to stand up to the Rangers. |
- A1993-005.0238
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Lawerence May |
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- A1993-005.0239
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with William Hinnant. |
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- A1993-005.0240
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Carolina Barrera De Luna talks about her involvement in LULAC. |
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- A1993-005.0241
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with William H. Jefferson, conducted by Arthur B. Woods. Jefferson discusses the railroads & travel conditions; jails, the Good Government League; law enforcement; bandits, including Pancho Villa; schools; discrimination; farming; the growth of Bishop Texas, A&I University; Naval Air Station Kingsville; the stores in Kingsville; Prohibition; smuggling activities; churches; doctors; flooding; and Caesar Kleberg. |
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- A1993-005.0242
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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A farmer, Henry Grebe talks about land conditions; his crops; and his leisure time activities including fishing. |
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- A1993-005.0243
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Born in Mexico, Mr. Perez talks about modes of transporation and communications; the pony express between San Benito and Brownsville; the 1933 Hurricane; law enforcement and the Texas Rangers; the daily work schedule & life of farm labor; the church; doctors & folk remedies; superstitions, folk legends; newspapers; festivals of Matamoros & Brownsville; border descrimination & local weddings. |
- A1993-005.0244
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with L.C. McRoberts, conducted by Gary A. Edwards. Born in Gibson County, Indiana, McRoberts worked for the St. Louis, Browsnville, & Mexican Railroad, and the King Ranch. He discuses his personal background; development of railroads and the effect on the economy of Kingsville; early agriculture; city planning; building of the Cotton Mill; the dairy business; the cotton oil mill; oil industry; Kenedy Ranch; railroad bridge fire; bandit attack on Norias Ranch; Caesar Kleberg and his Sunday School Class; fencing of the Ranch Land; hurricanes; IRS investigating windmill damages; Mr. Koch and his Riviera Beach property; social life; and the Flato Opera House & hotels.
Signed consent form and summary of interview in donor file. |
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- A1993-005.0245
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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He talks about the shrimping industry including the equipment and people involved. |
- A1993-005.0246
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Born on Henry Bend Ranch, Mattie D. Coffin Watson tells about T.H. Mathis, and gives a short history of early business ventures & acquisition of land for ranching; donation of land for town of Mathis and railroads, churches, schools. She tells about Sarah Bradley Dodson, maker of first Texas flag; schools in Mathis; crops, the lack of banks, the first phone (1918); law offices, doctors, large ranches in the area; churches; July 4 celebration; home reemdies; revival meetings; hunting, fishing, shopping & hold-ups. |
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- A1993-005.0247
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Isidoro Rodriguez talks about life & customs of Millett, Cotulla, Dilley & Pearsall; his early schooling, first car, crops & animals, trains, machinery; and dances on ranches. |
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- A1993-005.0248
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Clyde M. Grant, conducted by Perry Watson. Grant, a retired professor of English at Texas A&I University, discusses school life; road conditions & transportation in Oklahoma; Native Americans; customs; weather conditions; farm life & farming techniques; his parent's lives; changes he has seen at Texas A&I University; outlaws and law enforcement in Oklahoma as compared to Texas; communications; medicine & folk remedies. |
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- A1993-005.0249
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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William T. Browning talks about his life in Yoakum, Texas. He especially talks about the business he built and the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Yoakum. He talks about the time from 1919 through the Depression. |
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- A1993-005.0250
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Jesus Salinas, a rancher and merchant, talks about life in and around Benavides. He mentions Don Pedrito Jaramillo, Archie Parr, Pedro Bazan, Ruperto Cadena, Antonio Slinas, Vaello Sales, Sheriff Butler, Juan Saenz, Pancho Villa, and Alvaro Obregon among others. Mentions various towns. |
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- A1993-005.0251
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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A former cowboy, Charlie Lara talks about Jim, Al & Dave McFaddin, Roland Valentine, Charlie Baker, Jake Mariana Traviesas and others he has known. He tells about his teachers. Also present in the interview is Mr. Lara's wife. |
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- A1993-005.0252
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Juan Flores tells about schools; roads; farming, stores and transportation of the time. Talks about weather extremes, raids by bandits; law enforcement; racial feelings, medicine, myths, customs, and celebrations including weddings. |
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- A1993-005.0253
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Zora Wright Fore |
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- A1993-005.0254
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Emilio Barrera talks about schools she attended; farming methods and weather; law enforcement; discrimination; doctors, medicine and political life, especially about Ramon Guerra. She tells of marriage & the festivities involved. |
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- A1993-005.0256
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Mrs. Maria Cavazos tells of her life on La Puerta Ranch, Agua Dulce, in early 1900s. Ranch was owned by Richard King, Jr.; foreman was Walter Bedford. Talks of doctors, communication, wedding customs, and folk remedies.
Signed consent form in donor file. |
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- A1993-005.0257
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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George Gonzalez spoke of his parents Pedro Gonzalez, Juana Garza, Beeville, 1916-1917; Borjas, Efa Carrilo, Vaella Sales, Sweden, San Diego, Tio Leon Ramirez, Apolito Ramirez, Norway, Ramiro Carrillo, Laredo, Ogello Sales, Matais Garcia, Partidos Viejo Y Nuevo, Viejo Parr, George Parr, Bill Johnson, Archer Parr, Dr. Liera, Dr. Tobin, herbs: margosa & salsafras, Benavides, 1915 plaza, Jesus Oliviera, Hermilo Salinas, Eduardo Solis, Rufino Garza, Pedro Ramirez, Colorado, Driscoll, Willa Calendaria, Papa de Guerro, Ciprian Vela, Tio Leon Uyo, Jesus Salinas. |
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- A1993-005.0258
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Robert Henderson, conducted by Fred Dreiling. Henderson discusses life in Galveston between 1919 - 1930: the population; schools; segregation; police; treatment of youth; Tony Macino; courts; Judge Wilson; politics; Kempners, Moodys & Sealys; independent parties; corruption; crime; Maseos; Macino; Ma Harvey; Bonnie & Clyde; bootlegging; gambling; prostitution; The Great Depression; hurricanes; cowboys: Adolf Tishmaker; Jim McFarland; motorcycles; Henry Erdmann; Dudley Day; Walter Boarwright; and motorcycle racing then and now. |
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- A1993-005.0259
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Victor Saenz. |
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- A1993-005.0260
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Two tapes one is number 260 and the other 302. Both talk about the life and times of Valentine and his wife Rafaela. She tells about her life from 1918-1930 including roads, farming, stores, communications, 1936 Hurricane; housework, family, medicine; educating the children; dances; celebrations, discrimination, modes of dress. Valentine talks about modes of travel, types of work, bandits, communications crimes, campesinos; and life on the King Ranch. |
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- A1993-005.0261
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Percy Foster talks about the histories of the tourist industry, the agriculture industry; the economic development including the railroad; In general, he talked about the development of Kingsville and south Texas. |
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- A1993-005.0262
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with George B. Parr, conducted by Emma Leal. Parr was active in Duval County politics at all levels, and was popularly known as the "Duke of Duval". |
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- A1993-005.0263
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Former president of Texas A&I University, he talks about the early history of the University. |
- A1993-005.0264
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Juan Moreno Sr. talks about life from 1911 to 1949 at the Willis Ranch near Gregory. General comments on ranch life, schools, law enforcement, family rules, activities. |
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- A1993-005.0265
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Ralph Schmeling. |
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