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Alabama - My Parents' Death and Foster Parents
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Dad (Linus A. Davidson): Taping was done at Grandma Davidson's (Dollie Catherine Lankford) house. We want to do a little recording for posterity. Now Mama, where were you born. Just talk like you were talking to me. GM: Well I suppose I was born in Alabama, but I don't know what part. Dad: Wasn't it Geneva. GM: Well Geneva, Alabama is where I lived. Dad: Your maiden name was Dolly Catherine Lankford. GM: Yes. Dad: And your parrents died when you were real young. What were their names. GM: William and Nancy. Dad: William and Nancy Lankford. GM: Aha. Dad: The best you know they lived in Geneva. GM: Well...
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Horse and Buggy Adventures
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
I know we took a trip to Burlington to a fair one time in his car. He had two horses. Nice car. Dad: Buggy. GM: Buggy. Yes buggy. And coming home the horses got scared and ran away with us. They tore themselves loose from the car and threw us out. Ha Ha. Dad: Tore themselves loose from the buggy. GM: Thats the kind of wrecks people used to have. I kind of hurt my head. Not awful bad. We were kind of close to a place where they fixed things you know. You know. Dad: A repair shop for buggys or something. GM: Yes something like that. So we...
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Yates Center, Kansas
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Dad: Lets back up a little bit. Now is there any thing you can remember particularly about life there on the farm in Yates Center after you had married before you moved to Oklahoma. GM: In Yates Center. Dad: Aha. I can remember you and I going to town with Lizzy and the buggy. GM: Oh you do. Dad: Yes. I can remember that just as nice as can be. GM: Well Papa had a small 40 acre farm. Dad: That was before Mabel was born. GM: I remember when you was just a little bitty boy, that your Grandpa, He was kinda always a thinking you ought to be...
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Move to Oklahoma Territory
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Dad: Well lets go ahead with this now. We are talking history now. GM: Well let me see then we used to have a well right close to the house. When it rained it would just fill up see. Dad: Aha. GM: And I don't know, my health got awful bad. I thought the water tasted awful and I decided that it wasn't very good because the cemetary was right North there on the hill. Well Papa decided too that he wanted to make a change. And I guess we talked about it so much. I kinda of thought a good many times about going to California. And all sorts...
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Cows and Centipedes
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Dad: Well up in Logan Co. where we lived I guess you remember the night when Papa had gone to Guthrie with the cotton or for some other reason and I believe the cows got in the corn and Ruth was still a baby and you left me there to hold her while you GM: And you sat there so nice and took care of her and I went out there in the dark to care for those cows. I was kind of scared half out of my wits. I got out there alright. I didn't know anything about taking care of cows. Dad: You got them taken care...
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Sugar Cain, Hogs and Cotton
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Dad: Now we are going back to Alabama here for a minute and here what you got to say about the cain. So go abead. GM: Well when I was a girl, we used to have a great big round kettle that we used to make syrup in. Pa raised a lot of sugar cain. It was awfully good for the juice you know. And he had a sugar cain mill. The only one in the neighborhood. It was run by horses. And it was just wonderful, the juice came out a little spout. The neighbors would come to drink the juice you know. And we used to drink the...
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Visit to Florida and Fishing
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
By the way, there is one thing I just happened to think of and I am glad I thought of it. Because I want you to talk about your visit to Florida. GM: Oh I went down to....that was another sister...I lived in Alabama yet....and another sister of hers....well she just had one sister and one brother. Well this sister lived in Florida with her husband, Uncle Ligh we called him. And a brother lived in Kansas. And the sister came up there and wanted me to go home with them. I don't know why they always had to pick on me to go home with them. The other girls...
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The Fortune Teller and Oxen Wagons
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Anyway, I was wanting to go home all the time and one time there was some campers come along...you might have heard me tell Robert that. Any way, come along and stopped in front of the house, a woman...I don't remember anything about anyone but the woman...but anyway, I went out there and Willie went with me...her little boy. We went out there and talked to the people and that woman asked if I wanted her to tell my fortune. I was 16 or 18 yrs old..I don't remember which....16 I expect. Anyway, isn't that funny I don't remember....Anyway, she was fixing me some coffee...you know they used to do...
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Jack and Logan County House
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Can you think of anything else about the sojourn in Logan Co. GM: You remember about Jack. The dog that went down there with us. Dad: Oh yes aha. GM: Do you remember he had laid around like he was wondering what was going to happen when we were getting all packed up to go. And what did he do but run and jump in the wagon. And stayed in there until Papa got down to Oklahoma. Dad: Well I didn't remember that. GM: And then when he let the horses out, the dog got out and was perfectly happy. Went home with us and stayed there. Till finally he...
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Living in Enid
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Dad: Many years passed and you have lived here in Enid since about 1909 I would say approximately. And lived in several places. But this place here you lived in the longest. You lived here ever since the time I started in high school, GM: You mean right here. Dad: Aha. Right here. GM: We used to live in the brick house. Dad: Aha. GM: And I don't remember I guess you were going to high school when we lived in the brick house. Dad: I guess so. Anyway it must have been about 1914, 15 somewhere in ther that we moved to here don't you think so. GM: How...
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Summing Up
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Dad: Now lets see. To sumarize things up like we said when we started, this is May 12, 1963 and you live here yet with Ruth and David and we live in Oklahome City now by ourselves. Allen lives in Los Angeles with his wife Sylvia. Their children Ron and Ellen. Ellen has one child and Ron has three. Robert and his wife Mary live in Ft Wayne with their three children, Mark, Susan and Steven. And Gloria and Floyd live in Adelphi Md right near Washington DC with their 5 children Ruth, Marilyn, Rodger, Keith and Bruce. And you have never seen Bruce or Steven. But anyway the family...
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