'Old Family Stories' Category
Rock Dolls
As kids we never had dolls. My sisters, cousins and I would play with rock dolls back in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. We could find real pretty rocks in the old gravel bar at Baron. The good one’s would be 8″ wide and 14″ long.
We put a face on them […]
Momma almost shot Leo
One night my cousin Leo came home after dark and knocked on the door. In a disguised voice, he hollered, “Mrs. Cagle, let me in” She asked who it was. Leo said “Oh you know me, open the door”, then he left. We didn’t hear him back for a few minutes. […]
My donkey
When I was a about 8 or 9 there was an old man who lived up the road, his name was Mr. Owen. He had a donkey that pulled a wagon. I would pet the donkey every chance I got and I thought he was the most beautiful animal I had ever […]
Peanut Toe
Aunt Sarrah always went bare footed. When I was little we were at the grocery store and I was looking at her feet. She said, “What the hell are you lookin at?” I told her, “I’m lookin at your toe, the one next to the big one. It looks like a […]
Big black cloud & Aunt Sarrah
Not long after Jack and I got married, Aunt Sarrah (pronounced Sarrie) came down to the house to tell us that there was a tornado coming and we better get in the cellar with her. Jack said “No, I’m not going but you girls go on ahead”. Aunt Sarrah said “Look at that […]
Rolling Pin
When I was about 6 years old, Grandpa made rolling pins out of cedar for the older grandkids. I kept beggin him to make me one. He would say, “Oh Sadie, if I made you one, you wouldn’t keep it”. I told him that if he would make me one I would keep […]
Dog toots
When we lived at Baron we didn’t have a screen door. Uncle Joe had an old dog that would come in and lie down in front of the fireplace. He’d get good and warm and then he would ‘toot’. Momma would take her broom and beat him out the door.
One time he […]Fly like a turkey
One winter when I was about ten, my friend guy and I decided we would fly like a turkey. Guy being older and the boss wanted to go first. We bot broom sticks and tied turkey wings on them and then tied those to Guy’s arms. We put a ladder in the barn […]
Money was scarce
Money was scarce but if a family was fortunate enough to have a team of horses or mules, a few chickens and maybe 40 acres of rented or owned land, they would have enough to eat and wear. Almost no one had enough to spend for things we didn’t need. We learned a […]
Country Living In The 1930’s
The thirties were very stressful times in this part of the country. (Northeast Oklahoma) The great depression was in full bloom and in the mid thirties we had the worst drought and the hottest temperatures on record here. Those were the ‘dust bowl’ times but we only got some dust in the air […]
