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 of     Oregon.  And places like that.  He decided to go down to Oklahoma.  Somebody told him about it I guess.  So he went down there and made a bargain with Gastons (not sure of spelling.  May have been Gastron or Gasthons)....were the people.  Were the names that he delt with to get that place over there.  See.  Dad:  Aha.  GM:  Well then we stayed there    Oh we wern't there over a year was we.  Dad:  Well.  GM:  Until Esther was born.  Or I mean till Ruth was born.  Dad:  Seems to me it was about two years but I'm not sure.  We went there just before Statehood.  I believe in the Spring of 1907.  Just before Oklahome became a state.  GM:  Oh.  Aha.  Dad:  In 1907.  GM:  I can remember Uncle Zenas wrote   Dad:  I think it was in the Spring wasn't it.  GM:  I don't know about that.  But I remember Uncle Zenas wrote and congratulated us on having a state instead of a territory. 

 

Dad:  And then I know we were in Enid    I believe we were in Enid in 1909.  That's where I got my idea about a couple of years that we lived down there.  GM:  Is that right.  Dad:  Well now I am not saying it is so but that is my impression of it.  GM:  About what.  Dad:  About a couple of years.  GM:  Well I know that when I went down there Mabel was a baby, about 18 months old.  Well then Ruth ..was born while we was there too.  So it must have been a couple of years.  Do you suppose.  Dad:  Ruth was born there.  We went down there in 1907 I am sure so Mabel was born when in 1905  GM:  Well she was born    You was 4 yrs old when she was born.  And then she was just 3 yrs old when Ruth was born wasn't she.  Dad:  Aha.  That makes her born in 1905.  GM:  I guess so.  I don't keep track of those things.  Dad:  She was about 2 yrs. old.  Not less than 2 yrs old if we went in the Spring.  GM:  You mean Mabel.  Dad:  Mabel was yes.  GM:  Before Ruth was born why you got whopping caugh.  Come home with the whopping caugh.  You know.  Dad:  Was Ruth born in 1908.  GM:  I never paid no attention to the date.  Your Papa always did just like you.  Dad:  I believe she was.  She had to be almost because that would make her 7 yrs. younger than me and thats right.  GM:  Thats right, thats right.  Because you was just 7 yrs old when she was born.  Dad:  How old was Ruth when we came to Enid.  Do you remember.  GM:  Oh she was.  She was about 6 mo. old wasn't she.  Dad:  6 mo.  I don't know.  I can't remember.  GM:  You know I was sick.  You remember I had that Lumbago or what ever it was.  Dad:  Yes I remember you were sick.  GM:  How sick I was and hardly able to do anything.  And. 

 

Dad:  Now there is one more thing I want to remember back there.  I want to ask you if you remember back in Kansas.  I can remember that after we had sold the place, and were ready to go to     Papa had already come down here and brought the household goods and the stock.  GM:  Yes.  Dad:  In a box car.  And we were coming on the train and we went to Grandpas.  GM:  You mean down here at Enid.  Dad:  No, to Logan Co.  GM:  Yeah, Aha.  Dad:  To Oklahoma in other words from Kansas.  And we were at Grandpas before daylight in the morning to catch the train.  And I remember there was an old bus affair.  A coach of some kind with coal oil lights on the side with the horses on it that came after us.  Do you remember that.  GM:  Came after us.  Dad:  Yes.  A bus to take us to the Depot.  GM:  I don't remember that.  Dad:  Don't you remember it.  I remember it just almost plain as can be.  I remember we were in there getting ready and he was out there hollering all abord.  GM:  Oh.  Dad:  In other words he was getting anxious for us to come on out.  I remember Grandpa or somebody saying well we better hurry up and get out there.  He's in a hurry.  He was calling all abord.  GM:  Aha.  Thats mighty cute that you would remember    Dad:  I think that I can remember about what those things were like.  Just a good sized covered closed in coach with glass windows and the driver setting up kind of high on the front.  Like a coachman you know.  And the coal oil lights on the side for head lights.  I guess driven by two horses.  GM:  I just don't  remember it.  I guess I was kind of feeling so awfully bad.  Dad:  It was kind of a Stage coach in other words.  I don't know if stage coaches were still in existence then or not.  But this thing I think they called a bus.  A bus to take you to the depot.  You don't remember that.  GM:  I just don't think I do.  I would hate to say I do because I just don't remember it.  You know I think I was kind of sick.  I know I had a headache and I had a back ache and all when I left Yates Center.  And I guess it just doesn't register.  I had Mabel to worry about too.