At different times, I don't know if it was when I was teaching there, Mama's brothers, Uncle Newt and Uncle Lewis, would be at Aunt Lizzys and Uncle Newt came over to our house to stay a while and Uncle Lewis got a home there close to our house.  By our house, I mean where Mamma and papa and we children lived.  That was at 921 North Sixth Street, Enid, Oklahoma.  Then Papa's sister stayed with us a while and as I remember it, Uncle Newt lived there close to us and I know they had some sickness and then I believe they moved back to Missouri for a while and then Uncle Neut's wife died.  And then, we didn't see much of Uncle Newt any more.  I think he came back to Oklahoma once in a while and he would visit with Uncle John and Aunt Lizzy and visit with us some but not very much. 

 

I think we were too busy all of the time to be very friendly with any of them.  Mama just had all that she could do to keep six girls and one boy going to school and feeding them and she just didn't have the time.  And Uncle Lewis bought a farm out West of Enid.  And he lived there for a while and then he sold the farm.  I just wonder if he didn't want us to be real friendly with him and all and if he didn't just get lonesome down there by himself.  I really don't know.  I was just too young to know or to think any thing about it.

 

I guess I needed some recreation in my life and so my sister Orma and myself and Bertha went to Wyoming.  We went by train and got jobs, each of us, as waitresses at the Fred Harvey House at the Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Green River, Wyoming.  

 

This was at Green River, Wyoming and we worked at the Fred Harvy House.  We enjoyed it.   We stayed there just for the summer.  Our normal occupation was teaching school, and we went there just for our vacation and then came back and taught the next year at Enid.  Bertha and Orma went out the next summer and each of them met a man who they later married.  So then they had to live out West. 

 

I know one time Orma told me she wished she hadn't lived out there and that she had come back to Oklahoma to live.  Anyway, we enjoyed it out there and we didn't do anything we shouldn't do.  As far as I remember we behaved ourselves. (Giggle)  One thing about it, we had to work on Sunday so we didn't get to go to Church and Sunday School.  We lived in the Harvey House while we were out there.