Morrow, Janie 1977-11-07
Janie Morrow discusses early settlement of the Baileyboro, Texas area.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Janie Morrow
Additional Parties Recorded: None
Date: November 07, 1977
Location: A school in Muleshoe, Texas
Interviewer: School Children
Length: 25 minutes
Abstract
Tape 1, Side 1: She moved here in 1924 from Crosbyton in Model T truck,
They brought livestock and few farm implements,
They rode in a car called a ?”picket”,
Her father was married for the 3rd time,
He lost 2 wives when they lived near Dallas,
Jane’s mother died when Jane 2 years old,
He married Ola ?T------, she died in 1962,
He died in 1968 from cancer,
They moved west of Baileyboro,
Rode 5 miles across a pasture to school,
Her uncle moved up here, he and father fixed a school wagon,
“Our school bus, pulled by horses”, used by 4 families,
First school teach was Mrs. ?”Mud” Taylor- still lives here,
They farmed with horses and mules, milked cows,
Mom raised lots of turkeys, shipped box-car loads,
Chickens, making clothes,
Town was at Sudan, since little at Muleshoe, small store at Baileyboro,
Canning,
Prairie fires,
She was visiting her aunt,
It started in New Mexico, went 81 miles,
Came within 4 feet of aunt’s house,
Wetting gunny/tow sacks to fight it,
She finished high school but no college,
Nearest college was Canyon or Texas Tech,
No hospital, but 1 doctor in back of a filling station,
In 1931 they moved to where she lives now, l mile south of Muleshoe,
First tornado in Bailey County hit their house and destroyed part,
She and brother injured, she seriously with leg and neck injuries,
Family of 4 boys and 4 girls,
School was small, L-shaped, and 3 teachers, 8 months of school,
Dismissed for 6 weeks to help with crop harvest,
Crop harvest with row-binders, heading machine and threshing machine,
Lunch for neighbors workers when threshing,
She has pulled cotton, run cotton strippers, tromped cotton trailers,
Husband was gin manager for 8 years, she ran suction one day,
Seven boys and cousins,
Fight with brothers and cousins in top of barn,
She got knocked into feed trough,
Riding a donkey,
Doctor was Dr. Matthewson, same size as Dr. McDaniel,
Old medical remedies,
Her son Charles taught by the teacher here,
She has 1 daughter and 2 sons,
17 year old grandson in Houston, school report,
Folk remedies,
Step on nail or glass- lye soap on wound,
Chest cold- mixture of kerosene, mentholatum, turpentine, hog oil,
Sore throat- teaspoon of sugar with kerosene or turpentine,
Cold remedy of father was apricot brandy and rock candy,
Later Dr. N. F. Green offered pills,
No tractors then,
Uncle, now dead, had a traction machine,
In 1933, Dad bought a Fordson to pull feed wagon for milk cows,
They shipped 20 gallons of cream a week,
Early days in Muleshoe,
Mr. ?Guston had a grocery store,
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson boot/shoe shop in brown building,
Two hotels, still standing,
Brian Cox had blacksmith shop on north end of Main Street,
Now it is parking lot where ?Sinclairs is,
Present courthouse built about 1928,
Moving as child from ???????? to Dallas to Crosbyton,
Old fashioned clothing,
She played basketball 5 years,
Denise’s grandmother played in big black bloomers,
She wore shorts,
Dancing in the 1920’s and 1960’s similar,
Family attended church every Sunday,
Heating with a large coal stove,
School stories about pranks and jokes,
Edgar Chaney- Shirley’s brother-in-law,
Parents gave whippings if they fought,
Boy throwing tomato at her hit Mrs. Witherspoon,
Her lst principal, Mr. ????????, moved to Hobbs, New Mexico,
Three teachers, sometimes 30 students in a room,
Story of April Fool’s Day picnic and Mrs. Taylor,
Passing notes in school,
Dora Holley, now Dora Barber,
They lived 5 miles west of Baileyboro,
“Town” was Sudan, ride there in Model T truck,
Six houses between their house and Sudan then,
No graded road to Muleshoe,
Cattle drives to Muleshoe,
Road west of Baileyboro was just 2 wagon tracks,
Graders were pulled by mules,
[Tape ends after 25 minutes.]
Tape 1, Side 2: Blank
Range Dates: 1920-1977
Bulk Dates: 1920-1940
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