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OH0117 Allen Tuthill - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: This is an interview with Allen Tuthill and it takes place on September 12, 1978 at the home of Mr. Tuthill near Oakland, Oregon. The interviewer is Star Eatherington. During the interview Mr. Tuthill is explaining some old farming techniques and the advent of the gas engine and how that helped farming in the way of tractors and plows and such. He talks about the coming of cars and the making...
Record Type: Archive
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OH0120 Julius Benham - Oral Histories
oral histories; transcription REMARKS: This interview is with Julius Benham and takes place at his home in Roseburg, on February 26, 1979. The interviewer is Valerie Sonnenberg. Julius Benham was born in 1899, in Brewsters Valley near Reston. His parents were Caroline Mast and James Benham. The Benhams were from Tennessee and settled in Fairview on the Coos Bay Wagon Road. The Mast family came from North Carolina and settled in...
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OH0121 Teresa Long v389 - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: This is an interview with Teresa Long and it takes place on July 25, 1978 in the home of Mrs. Long near Umpqua, Oregon. Also present is Opal Munson and Reva. The interviewer is Star Eatherington. Mrs. Long talks about many interesting things of the area. She talks about the poor farm that was located near her home and what she ha heard about the Indians located near Tyee Road and of Fort Ump...
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OH0122 Grace Bond - Oral History
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: A tped interview with Grace Bond and her brother Andrew Smith, at Mrs. Bond's home in Glide, Oregon, on August 6, 1979. The Interviewer is Judy Roberts. Mrs. Bond and Mr. Smith are old timers in this area having been born near Glide at a place called Honey Creek. Mr. Smith goes into detail about some of the schools thata they attended and what they were like and some of the families that were...
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OH0124 Curtis Barker v417 - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: This is an interview with Curtis Barker, on February 22, 1979. The Interview was conducted at the home of Mr. Barker in Roseburg, Oregon. The interviewer is Dave Reynolds.
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OH0126 Tom Pargeter - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: A taped interview with Tom Pargeter in his office in Roseburg, Oregon, on August 17, 1979. The interviewer is Judy Roberts. Mr. Pargeter is self-employed. He has an insurance company here in Roseburg and it is a company that his father and his uncle started many years ago. He at one time worked for a freight company as a cashier. A cashier is responsible for paying and collecting cash to ot...
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OH0128 Lula Townsend v278 - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS; This is an interview with Lula McClay Townsend and takes place in her home in Roseburg, on March 12, 1979. The interviewer is Valerie Sonnenberg. Lula Townsend was born on October 5, 1904. Her parents were Dora Elizabeth Bunch and William Bryon McClay and they were married in 1891. Her grandparents were Flora and James Bunch who arrived in Oregon in 1882 in April, and David and Melissa McCla...
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OH0129 Harry Cool - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: This is an interview with Harry Cool and also present is Mrs. Cool and Mildred Whipple. The interview was conducted on March 13, 1979 by Star Eatherington. Mr. Cool was born in Pennsylvania in March 1890 and he came to Oregon by train with his family when he was sixteen years old. They came right to Drain where his faather had a logging and a hardware store. In this interview Mr. Cool tells ...
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OH0130 Ray Doerner v309 - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: This interview is with Ray Doerner aand it takess place in the Melrose area at his home on July 3, 1979. The interviewer is Valerie Sonnenberg. Ray Doerner is one of the grandsons of Adam and Elizabeth Doerner, both of Germany. They came to Oregon in 1888 and ran a distillery in Roseburg and later on his land in the Cleveland area. Later his son Adolh, Ray's father, had a winery in Clevelan...
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OH0132 George Wilcox v221 - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: This is an interview with eorge Wilcox. It takes place on September 18, 1978 at the home of Mr. Wilcox near Sutherlin, Oregon, and also present is Agnes, his wife. The interviewer is Star Eatherington. In this interview Mr. Wilcox talks a great deal about his family history, he knows it quite well. He talks about the McGees who settled the farm where he now lives. He talks about his mother'...
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OH0133 Copeland v353 - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: In this itnterview Mr. Copeland, who was born in 1904, talks about the early days in Oakland. He raised on a farm just outside of Oakland and went to school there, grade school and high school. He talks a little bit about the school and he talks about the old time farmers in the area and the crops that they raised. He remembers turkeys bein driven into town and he talks about quite a few interesting th...
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OH0134 Guy Cole - Oral Histories
Oral histories; transcription REMARKS: This is an interview with Guy and Maude Cole. It takes place on August 1, 1978 in their home between Umpqua and Oakland. The interviewer is Star Eatherington. On this tape Mr. Cole talks about his ancestors. Mrs. Cole helped him remember about the settlement of Coles Valley and the 2000 acres then settled by the Cole Family on te other side of the river. They talked about the Indians in t...
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