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  • Name  RUBY PEARL ("PEARL") CAUDLE 
    Born  14 Aug 1900  MT. VERNON, JEFFERSON, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • LIVES AT BETHANY, OKLAHOMA.
    Gender  Female 
    Baptism  Abt 1923  DEER CREEK, YALE, PAYNE, OKLAHOMA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I143  Caudle Descendants
    Last Modified  29 Dec 2004 

    Father  Ancestors LOUIS NORMAN CAUDLE, SR.,   b. 8 Jan 1874, BRIDGEPORT, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Oct 1943, SACRAMENTO, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 69 years 
    Mother  Ancestors HATTI VESTA TOWER,   b. 12 Jul 1878, LEAVENWORTH, CRAWFORD, INDIANA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 May 1965, BETHANY, OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 86 years 
    Married  11 Apr 1895  PARAGOULD, GREENE, ARKANSAS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    PhotosFamily photos for LOUIS NORMAN CAUDLE, SR. & HATTI VESTA TOWER
    Family ID  F3  Group Sheet

    Family  Ancestors ROY CLIFFORD MOSER,   b. 17 Apr 1901, YALE, PAYNE, OKLAHOMA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Mar 1952, PROTECTION, KANSAS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 50 years 
    Married  24 Dec 1934  YALE, PAYNE, OKLAHOMA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    Married: 2x1. WESLEY NORMAN MOSER Married: 2x2x 
    Married: 3x2. CLIFFORD ROY MOSER Married: 3x3x 
    Married: 2x3. ANNA RITA MOSER Married: 2x2x 
    PhotosFamily photos for RUBY PEARL ("PEARL") CAUDLE & ROY CLIFFORD MOSER
    Family ID  F99  Group Sheet

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 14 Aug 1900 - MT. VERNON, JEFFERSON, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - Abt 1923 - DEER CREEK, YALE, PAYNE, OKLAHOMA Link to Google Earth
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    • HER FATHER CALLED HER RUBY.

      REFERENCES: CAUDLE(4), PRESTON MILFORD, UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH ON JOHN JEFFERSON CAUDLE'S FAMILY, 2326 KENT COURT, WALDORF, MARYLAND 20602-2212, 1967 TO PRESENT.

      PEARL'S IN THE WESTWOOD NURSING HOME IN BETHANY, OKLAHOMA NEXT TO THE HOSPITAL.

      AUNT PEARL WAS MY FAVORITE AUNT. I WAS AT HER HOUSE ON THE "MOSER HOMESTEAD" AT YALE, OKLAHOMA OFTEN AND SHE WOULD TELL SCARY STORIES ABOUT LIVING ON THE FRONTIER, LIGHTENING, SOUND OF CHAINS BEING DRUG ACROSS THE FLOOR, AND HEADLESS PEOPLE. HER HUSBAND, ROY MOSER, WAS MY FAVORITE UNCLE. ONCE WHEN I STAYED ALL NIGHT WITH CLIFFORD, SHE TOLD US KIDS SCARY STORIES. THE ONE I REMEMBER WAS THAT WHEN SHE WAS A YOUNG GIRL HER FAMILY LIVED OUT ON THE PRIARIE SOMEWHERE IN OKLAHOMA. THE HOUSE WAS HAUNTED AND THEY WOULD SEE HEADLESS PEOPLE WALKING BY HOLDING THEIR HEADS IN THEIR ARMS DRAGGING CHAINS. SHE SAID THIS HAPPENED WHEN IT WAS STORMING OR GETTING READY TO STORM. GRANDPA, WOULD GO OUTSIDE TO INVESTIGATE BUT NEVER FOUND ANYTHING. ANOTHER STORY SHE TOLD US WAS THAT GRANDPA, LOUIS NORMAN CAUDLE, HAD SAVED A CEDAR TREE TO MAKE SHINGLES FOR THE HOUSE. A FIERCE STORM BLEW UP AND LIGHTENING STRUCK THE TREE AND TURNED IT INTO SMOKING SPLINTERS. GRANDPA, CURSING, RAN OUTSIDE, SHOOK HIS FISTS TOWARD THE SKY AND SHOUTED FOR THE LIGHTENING TO STRIKE HIM. FORTUNATELY, FOR HIM, IT DIDN'T. AFTER SHE TOLD US THESE STORIES, WE HAD TO GO TO BED BECAUSE THE NEXT DAY WAS A SCHOOL DAY AND WE ALL HAD TO GET UP AND CATCH THE SCHOOL BUS THE FOLLOWING MORNING. CLIFFORD AND I SLEPT TOGETHER IN THE ROOM NEXT TO THE KITCHEN, IN WHAT TODAY WOULD BE CALLED THE DINING ROOM. WE KEPT OUR HEADS THE COVERS BECAUSE THE CEILING WAS JUST RAFTERS. THERE WAS NO DRY WALL OVER COVERING IT. LATER THAT NIGHT, AFTER EVERYONE HAD FALLEN ASLEEP, ANNA RITA, HAD A NIGHTMARE. STANDING ON THE BEDSTEAD, AT THE FOOT OF THE BED, SHE WAS SCREAMING. I REMEMBER MY HAIR STANDING ON END AND HEARING AUNT PEARL SHOUTING AT ANNA RITA TO GET DOWN OFF THE BEDSTED. ACCORDING TO THE JANUARY 1921 SCHOLASTIC CENSUS REPORT FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 91 (EAGLE) IN PAYNE COUNTY, NEAR YALE, OKLAHOMA: RUBY P. CAUDLE IS SHOWN AS WHITE, FEMALE, BORN AUGUST 14, 1901, 19 YEARS OLD. TOM MOSER, HER FATHER-IN-LAW TO BE WAS THE ENUMERATOR. IT WAS SWORN TO BY L. N. CAUDLE, HER FATHER.
      PEARL WAS WAYNOKA HARVEY GIRL THE DAILY OKLAHOMA (OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES) NEWSPAPER COMMUNITY SECTION, PAGE 1, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1993 BY ROBERT E. LEE WHEN FRED HARVEY FOUND THAT MALE WAITERS DID NOT DISPLAY THE MANNERS HE WANTED IN HIS RESTAURANTS, HE SWITCHED TO FEMALES. THAT’S HOW RUBY PEARL (CAUDELE [CAUDLE]) MOSER ENDED UP WORKING AT THE HARVEY HOUSE IN WAYNOKA, A MAJOR STOP ON THE SANTA FE RAILROAD. SHE IS NOW 92 AND LIVES IN BETHANY. HARVEY, AND LATER HIS SONS, OWNED AND OPERATED THE FAMOUS HARVEY HOUSES ALONG MAJOR RAILROADS, OPENING THE FIRST IN 1876. TRAINS WOULD STOP, PASSENGERS WOULD FLOCK OFF AND INTO THE HARVEY HOUSE FOR AN ELEGANT MEAL, THEN GET BACK ON THE TRAIN AND IT WOULD GO ON ITS WAY.

      PEARL WAS IN HER LATE 20s AND LIVING IN ARKANSAS WHEN SHE AND A FRIEND DECIDED TO SEEK WORK IN THE HARVEY HOUSE CHAIN, IN 1928 OR ‘29. THEY RODE THE TRAIN TO KANSAS CITY, APPLIED FOR AND GOT WAITRESS JOBS AND RODE THE SANTA FE TO WAYNOKA IN NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA. THERE, THE HEAD WAITRESS (WHO WAS ALSO THE HOUSE MOTHER IN THE WAITRESS DORMITORY) TRAINED THEM IN THE FINER POINTS OF SERVING DINERS. THEY WERE ISSUED UNIFORMS - LONG BLACK DRESSES FOR THE MORNING SHIFT, WHITE FOR EVENING AND BOTH WITH HIGHLY STARCHED WHITE APRONS AND CAPS. HARVEY GIRLS, AS THEY WERE CALLED, MADE $40 A MONTH PLUS ROOM AND BOARD, AND ANY TIPS THEY RECEIVED. THEY WORKED A SIX-DAY WEEK, AS DID MOST PEOPLE THOSE DAYS. EACH WAITRESS HAD TO HAND WASH, STARCH AND IRON HER OWN UNIFORMS. MEN HAD TO WEAR JACKETS TO [BOLD LETTERS] EAT IN THE DINING ROOM, SO SEVERAL WERE KEPT FOR THOSE ARRIVING WITHOUT ONE. IT WAS A COMMON SIGHT TO SEE A JACKET-LESS MAN COME IN, STEP OVER TO THE COAT RACK AND PUT ON A JACKET TO WEAR WHILE EATING HIS MEALS. ONCE, PEARL RECALLED, A MAN LEFT HIS HAT ON WHEN HE SAT DOWN, SO SHE ASKED, "MAY I TAKE YOUR HAT, SIR?" THE MAN TOLD HER NO, EX- [BOLD LETTERS] PLAINING THAT THE HAT WAS NEW AND HE HAD JUST PAID $57 FOR IT, A LARGE SUM IN THOSE DAYS. "SO HE PUT IT UNDER HIS CHAIR," SHE SAID. HE PROMPTLY FORGOT ABOUT THE HAT, PUSHED HIS CHAIR BACK AND CRUSHED THE HAT UNDER A CHAIR LEG. IN HER TWO OR THREE YEARS [BOLD LETTERS] AT WAYNOKA, SHE MET MANY CELEBRITIES, AMONG THEM [THE FOLLOWING NAMES ONLY ARE IN BOLD LETTERS] WILL ROGERS, GRETA GARBO, JOHN GILBERT, WALLACE BERRY, LON CHANEY, LADY VANDERBILT, EMILY POST, CHARLES AND ANN LINDBERGH AND MAE WEST ("SHE WAS PLUMP, BIG!"). WAYNOKA’S HARVEY HOUSE [BOLD LETTERS] HAD A MAIN DINING ROOM, A LUNCH COUNTER AND A SMALL ROOM FOR "THE COLOREDS," PEARL SAID. ONE TIME, SHE RECALLS, A WHITE MOVIE EXECUTIVE AND HIS BLACK WIFE GOT OFF THE TRAIN AND CAME IN TO EAT. THE WIFE WAS TOLD SHE COULD NOT EAT IN THE MAIN DINING ROOM (RESERVED FOR WHITES). "BOY, WAS SHE MAD WHEN THEY FORCED HER TO EAT WITH THE COLORED PORTERS," PEARL SAID. WAYNOKA BECAME A GLAM- [BOLD LETTERS] OROUS CENTER OF AIRLINE TRANSPORTATION IN 1929, THANKS TO THE WORK OF CHARLES A. LINDBERGH [NAME IN BOLD LETTERS], THE FIRST PERSON TO FLY SOLO ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IN 1927. TRANSCONTINENTAL AIR TRANSPORT—LATER TO BECOME TWA—ESTABLISHED A NEW AIRLINE ROUTE, LAID OUT BY LINDBERGH, WHICH COULD TAKE CUSTOMERS FROM NEW [CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 OF THE COMMUNITY SECTION OF THE NEWSPAPER UNDER THE HEADING "LEE"] YORK TO LOS ANGELES IN 48 HOURS FOR $350. AIRPLANES DIDN’T FLY AT NIGHT SO PASSENGERS [BOLD LETTERS] LEFT NEW YORK BY NIGHT TRAIN TO CATCH A TAT FORD TRIMOTOR THE NEXT MORNING IN COLUMBUS, OHIO, AND FLY TO WAYNOKA. THERE THEY CAUGHT A NIGHT TRAIN TO CLOVIS, N.M., AND THEN ANOTHER TRIMOTOR TO LOS ANGELES. THE ROUTE ENDURED FOR 15 MONTHS, LOST $3 MILLION AND MADE AVIATION HISTORY. PEARL SERVED THESE PLANE-TRAIN PASSENGERS AT THE HARVEY HOUSE IN WAYNOKA. PEARL MOVED FROM WAYNOKA TO BETHANY [BOLD LETTERS] TO WORK IN AN ORPHANAGE. SHE MARRIED ROY MOSER IN 1935[.] HE WAS KILLED IN A CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT IN 1952. SHE THEN RAISED HER THREE CHILDREN, CLIFF, NOW OF EDMOND; WESLEY OF CHOCTAW; AND ANNA RITA ROSS OF OKLAHOMA CITY. SHE HAS SIX GRANDCHILDREN AND 12 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. EVENTUALLY, THE HARVEY CHAIN ALSO INCLUDED [BOLD LETTERS] MANY HOTELS AND RESORTS. IT ALSO OPERATED DINING CARS FOR MAJOR RAILROADS, AND EVEN SERVED AIRLINE IN-FLIGHT MEALS FOR A SHORT TIME. HARVEY HOUSES ALONG RAILROADS BEGAN DISAPPEARING SHORTLY AFTER WORLD WAR II—BUT NOT WITHOUT CREATING WONDERFUL MEMORIES FOR RUBY PEARL MOSER, AND THOUSANDS OF OTHER HARVEY GIRLS. [FOLLOWING THE STORY IS A PICTURE OF "ANN McCORMACK, AND RUBY PEARL (CAUDELE" [CAUDLE]). PEARL IS ON THE RIGHT IN THE PICTURE. THEY ARE IN THEIR BLACK UNIFORMS WITH STARCHED WHITE APRONS AND WHITE COLLARS. THEY] "WORKED AS HARVEY HOUSE WAITRESSES AT WAYNOKA IN THE 1928-30 PERIOD. McCORMACK NOW LIVES IN COLORADO, MOSER IN BETHANY." BEV MOSER, CLIFFORD’S WIFE, WROTE THE FOLLOWING PAPER ON HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, RUBY PEARL CAUDLE MOSER, FOR A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY CLASS SHE ATTENDED AT A LOCAL COLLEGE. SHE TAPED THE INTERVIEWS WITH PEARL AND PREPARED THE PAPER FROM THE TAPES: RUBY PEARL RUBY PEARL WAS BORN IN 1900. HER CHILDHOOD WAS SPENT IN TRAVELING THE COUNTRY WITH A FATHER WHO WAS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR AND FAILING TO FIND HIS BIG OPPORTUNITY. SHE BEGAN WORKING AT AN AGE WHEN MOST CHILDREN ARE STILL IN SCHOOL. ALL OF HER ADULT LIFE HAS BEEN SPENT IN OKLAHOMA. AS A YOUNG WIFE AND MOTHER SHE HELPED HER HUSBAND SUSTAIN THE FAMILY ON A FARM NEAR YALE. AFTER HIS TRAGIC DEATH IN 1951 SHE MOVED HER FAMILY TO A SMALL HOUSE IN BETHANY WHERE SHE STILL LIVES. SHE DEVOTED THE FOLLOWING YEARS TO REARING THREE CHILDREN. RUBY PEARL IS AN ORDINARY WOMAN IN MANY RESPECTS. SHE HAS SPENT MUCH OF HER LIFE AS A HOUSEWIFE AND HER FAMILY HAS BEEN THE FOCUS OF HER LIFE. SHE IS THE MUCH LOVED MATRIARCH OF A LARGE FAMILY OF CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. STILL, AT ALMOST 85, SHE POSSESSES THAT ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT THAT LED HER TO HITCHHIKE TO CALIFORNIA AS A YOUNG WOMAN. AND THAT STRENGTH OF WILL THAT ALLOWED HER TO OVERCOME HER GRIEF AND FIND A JOB TO PROVIDE FOR HER CHILDREN. SHE HAS WONDERFUL STORIES TO TELL OF PAST YEARS, BUT SHE HAS A ZEST FOR LIFE THAT ALLOWS HER TO ENJOY TODAY AND LOOK FORWARD TO TOMORROW. RUBY PEARL IS A JOY TO KNOW. IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO INTERVIEW HER AND WRITE ABOUT THESE FEW EPISODES OF HER LIFE. I HOPE THAT THESE PAGES CONVEY THE SPECIAL PERSON THAT SHE IS. EARLY DAYS I WAS BORN IN MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS, BUT CHICAGO IS THE FIRST PLACE I REMEMBER. DAD WORKED ON THE RAILROAD. WE LIVED IN A BIG, WHITE HOUSE AND OUT IN FRONT OF IT, ACROSS THE STREET WAS WHERE THEY SWITCHED THE CARS, THE ENGINES WOULD COME AND GET ANOTHER CAR. I WOULD CLIMB UP ON THE GATEPOST AND TALK TO THE MEN ON THE TRAIN. WE RODE THE TRAIN EVERYWHERE. WE EVEN RODE THE TRAIN INTO TOWN AND GOT OUR GROCERIES AT SEARS, ROEBUCK. WE WOULD RIDE IT TO LINCOLN PARK ZOO. I LIKE TO EMBARASSED MOTHER TO DEATH, I WAS SITTING UP ON THE GATEPOST ONE DAY AND THE MEN CHANGING CARS ASKED ME WHAT I HAD DONE. I SAID, "OH, I WENT TO THE ZOO TODAY AND SAW THE MONKEYS. THOSE MONKEYS HAD WENT ROUND AND ROUND SLIDING UP AND DOWN THOSE POLES UNTIL AROUND UNDER THEIR TALES WAS JUST AS RED." I BEGAN TO TELL EVERYTHING THEY HAD DONE AND MOTHER GOT UP AND WENT IN THE HOUSE. WE VISITED MOTHER’S FOLKS IN THE EAST ON THE TRAIN, SOMEONE HAD DIED AND THEY HAD THE COFFIN IN A WAGON WITH HORSES PULLING IT AND THEY CAME TO A TRAIN CROSSING AND THERE WAS A LONG FREIGHT PASSING. THE DRIVER KEPT THAT TEAM AGOING, SAID IT WAS BAD LUCK TO STOP, SO HE KEPT GOING THIS WAY AND THAT NOT TO STOP. WE MOVED FROM CHICAGO TO PARAGOULD AND WE LIVED OUT ON AN ISLAND CALLED GRIFFIN’S ISLAND, ONLY TWO HOUSES ON IT AND WATER ALL AROUND IT, ONLY ONE PLACE WHERE YOU COULD GET ACROSS TO IT. WHEN WE’D GO VISITING, WE’D GET ON A BOAT AND THEY WOULD USE POLES TO MOVE IT ALONG. THE HOUSE WAS BUILT UP ON STILTS WAY UP HIGH AND YOU COULD LOOK DOWN AND SEE SNAKES SWIMMING AROUND THE STILTS. MOTHER’S SISTER HAD MARRIED A WEALTHY MAN [PETE BLACK], HE WAS A LOT OLDER, ONE OF HIS BOYS WAS OLDER THAN SYLVIA. DAD WORKED IN HIS SAWMILL THERE IN ARKANSAS. WE GOT IN A COVERED WAGON, TOP AND EVERYTHING, AND THAT’S THE FIRST TIME I CAME TO OKLAHOMA. WE WOULD GO OUT TO WYOMING OR COLORADO AND ALWAYS CAME BACK TO OKLAHOMA OR ARKANSAS, USUALLY OKLAHOMA. DAD ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE. HE COULD HAVE BEEN WEALTHY. HE HAD SOME JOBS HE MADE GOOD MONEY. HIS MOTHER DIED WHEN HE WAS 14 AND THERE WAS 12 KIDS, 4 BOYS AND 8 SISTERS, AND HE DIDN’T LIKE THEM BOSSING HIM SO HE TOOK OUT AND WENT TO TEXAS. HE’D TELL TALES OF THAT TRIP THAT WOULD JUST MAKE YOUR BLOOD CURDLE, MOTHER SAID SHE DIDN’T THINK THEY WERE TRUE BUT HE SAID THEY WERE. WE SETTLED DOWN AT NORMAN, HE HAD A BROTHER [WILLARD] DOWN THERE, IT WAS STILL THE TERRITORY THEN, AND WE LIVED THERE QUITE A WHILE AND THEN WE WENT TO WYOMING FROM THERE ON A TRAIN FROM OKLAHOMA CITY. SETTLED WAY OUT ON THE PLAINS ON 360 ACRES, BUILT A DUGOUT BUT WE HAD A HOUSE AND USED THE DUGOUT FOR A HEN HOUSE, LITTLE TWO BEDROOM HOUSE AND DAD WORKED ON A RANCH ABOUT FIVE MILES FROM THERE. ONETIME WE WERE CARRYING IN PUMPKINS IN THE FALL, THE WIND WAS BLOWING AND IT WAS TURNING COLD. I HAD THIS BIG PUMPKIN UP IN MY ARMS AND I SEEN THIS BIG RATTLER AND IT HIT MY DRESS AS I WENT OVER IT AND THERE WAS A COWBOY, MOTHER WASHED FOR SOME OF THE COWBOYS, AND HE WAS COMING TO GET HIS CLOTHES AND HE CAME AND SHOT THE SNAKE. THE COWBOYS WAS AWFUL NICE, THEY HAD A BAD NAME BUT THEY ALWAYS TREATED MOTHER AND US KIDS SO NICE. LATER ON WHILE WE LIVED THERE IN WYOMING, MOTHER WENT TO WORK AS A COOK ON THE RANCH AND SHE PAID A WOMAN TO TAKE CARE OF US. SHE LIVED ABOUT A MILE FROM US AND SHE HAD TWO LITTLE GIRLS AND A BABY AND THEN SHE TOOK US, NELLIE AND I, AND GLEN MY OLDEST BROTHER, AND WE STAYED THERE WITH THEM WHILE MOTHER WORKED. SHE [MOTHER] DROVE A LITTLE TWO WHEEL CART WITH A HORSE HITCHED TO IT WHEN SHE WENT TO WORK AT THE RANCH. WE MOVED AWAY FROM THE FARM TO A RANCH. WE WENT UP THERE IN THE WAGON TO LOOK IT OVER FIRST. IT WAS A COVERED WAGON, DAD, THAT WAS WHAT HE DONE. THE WAGON HE DROVE WAS JUST LIKE A STORE, FOOD AND EVERYTHING IN IT AND HE’D GIVE IT TO THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE STRANDED HERE, THERE OR YONDER. THEY PAID FOR IT. THIS RANCH WAS HORSECREEK. I FORGET THE NAME OF THE TOWN [LUTHER?] IT WAS CLOSE TO. HE WENT UP THERE AND STAYED AND MOTHER COOKED AT THE RANCH AND WE ALL SLEPT IN THE SAME ROOM, US KIDS SLEPT ON A PALLET AND DAD WASN’T THERE HALF THE TIME. DAD’S OLDEST BROTHER WAS THERE, MOTHER WAS FIRST ENGAGED TO MARRY HIM AND DAD CAME BACK AND SHE FELL FOR HIM, DROPPED UNCLE WILLARD AND MARRIED DAD. WE LEFT THE RANCH, I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG WE WERE THERE, AND WE WENT BACK TO THE FARM. THE SCHOOL THERE WAS ABOUT TWO OR THREE MILES FROM WHERE WE LIVED. HAD TO WALK. ONE DAY I WAS WALKING ALONG THERE AND I HAD MOTHER’S BIG OLD SAILOR HAT ON, SHE’D LET ME WEAR IT TO SCHOOL. PRAIRIE, NOT A HOUSE, NOT A THING, NOT A FENCE BETWEEN OUR HOUSE AND THE SCHOOL. SIX KIDS WAS WHAT THEY HAD, THEY HAD TO HAVE THAT MANY TO OPEN THE SCHOOL. AND I WAS WALKING ALONG THERE AND I HEARD A NOISE AND I LOOKED AROUND FROM UNDER THIS BIG, OLD HAT, AND THERE WAS A BIG BULL AFTER ME. HE HAD HIS HEAD DOWN AT THE GROUND, CHASING ME AND BELLERING. OH, IT SOUNDED AWFUL. LIKE TO SCARED ME TO DEATH. I SCREAMED AND STARTED RUNNING, THERE WASN’T ANYTHING TO RUN TO, NO TREES, NO BUSHES, NO NOTHING AND DIRECTLY HERE CAME A COWBOY RIDING UP. HE NEVER STOPPED, JUST REACHED DOWN AND PICKED ME UP, AND OF COURSE I LOST MY LUNCH BUCKET AND MY HAT. HE WENT BACK AND SCOOPED THEM UP, TOO, WHILE HE HELD ME WITH ONE ARM. HE SAID THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING THIS BULL, SAID HE WAS LOCO, AND THEY WERE PLAYING DICE AND THE BULL GOT AWAY FROM THEM. HE JUST PICKED ME UP SO EASY. AFTER WE WENT BACK TO THE PLACE MOTHER HAD ANOTHER BABY, MY OTHER BROTHER [ROY RUSSELL]. SHE HAD TO CARRY WATER A MILE FOR EVERYTHING, AND SHE HAD FOUR KIDS TO DO FOR. THE CHRISTMAS AFTER HE WAS BORN, THE SNOW WAS SO DEEP, JUST LEVEL [PROBABLY WITH THE WINDOWS], MOTHER READ US THE STORY OF JESUS AND WE WERE HANGING OUR STOCKINGS UP AT THE WINDOW AND SHE SAID, "THERE’S NO USE HANGING THEM UP, YOU WON’T GET NOTHING TONIGHT. YOUR DADDY COULDN’T GET HERE EVEN IF HE WANTED TO. IT’S A REGULAR BLIZZARD." THE NEXT DAY A MAN SHE WASHED FOR CAME AND PICKED UP HIS CLOTHES AND SOME HOT BREAD SHE’D BAKED FOR HIM. THEN THAT AFTERNOON SOMETHING HIT THE DOOR AND SHE OPENED THE DOOR AND THERE WAS MR. MAYS, HE’D BEEN WANDERING AROUND ALL DAY IN THAT BLIZZARD AND COULDN’T FIND HIS HOME AND HE ONLY LIVED ABOUT A MILE FROM US. SO HE CAME IN AND SHE FED HIM. WE STAYED THERE UNTIL THE END OF AUGUST AND WHEN WE LEFT THERE WE HAD FROST SO WE WERE DRESSED IN WINTER CLOTHES AND RODE THE TRAIN BACK TO SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, FROM CHEYENNE. THE TRUNKS DIDN’T GET THERE WHEN WE DID AND THERE WE WERE IN LONG HANDLES AND IT WAS REAL HOT. WE MOVED INTO AN APARTMENT. WE’D JUST BEEN USED TO GOING LIKE WILD ANIMALS, AND THERE WE WERE UP THREE FLOORS. THEN WE MOVED INTO A HOUSE AND THERE WERE GREAT, BIG TREES AND IN WYOMING WHERE WE’D LIVED THERE WEREN’T ANY TREES. MOTHER HAD ANOTHER BABY THERE IN SPRINGFIELD. MY BROTHER ELWOOD WAS BORN THERE. SHE HAD TEN KIDS AND NO TWO WERE BORN IN THE SAME STATE, I’LL TAKE THAT BACK, NELLIE AND THE LITTLE GIRL THAT DIED [ANGEL] BETWEEN HER AND I, THEY WERE BOTH BORN IN CHICAGO. MOTHER HAD TEN CHILDREN ALTOGETHER. SHE LOST THE FIRST TWO BOYS [EZRA CLARK AND LOUIS NORMAN JR.] THEN SHE HAD ME AND THEN SHE HAD ANOTHER GIRL [ANGEL] AND IT DIED AND THEN THE REST OF THEM [NELLIE, GLEN, ROY, ELWOOD, BURNICE - 4 BOYS IN A ROW - VENEAL] ALL LIVED. SHE RAISED SEVEN OUT OF THAT TEN, DAD OUT TOMCATTING AROUND AND MOTHER DOING THE WORK RAISING US. MOTHER MUST HAVE REALLY LOVED HIM TO TRAVEL WITH HIM AND MOVE EVERYWHERE. SOMETIMES WE LIVED IN THE NICEST HOUSE IN THE COMMUNITY; SOMETIMES IT WAS SO POOR, YOU WERE ASHAMED FOR ANYONE TO KNOW WHERE YOU LIVED. HE GAMBLED A LOT AND HE WOULD LOSE EVERYTHING, THE FURNITURE AND EVERYTHING, AND THEY’D COME AND GET IT.

      YOUNG AND ADVENTURESOME

      WE TRAVELED BY TRAIN A LOT AND I ALWAYS LIKED EATING IN THE DINING CARS, SO WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THE HARVEY HOUSE RESTAURANTS I WANTED TO WORK THERE. A GIRL THAT LIVED ON A PLACE CLOSE TO US WENT WITH ME ON THE TRAIN TO APPLY FOR A JOB. HER NAME WAS IVY BAXTER; WE WENT FROM FORT SMITH [ARKANSAS]. WE SIGNED UP AT KANSAS CITY AT THE UNION STATION. THEY SENT US TO WAYNOKA [OKLAHOMA] TO WORK, SHE WORKED AT THE LUNCH COUNTER AND I WORKED THE DININGROOM. AND, I TELL YOU WHAT, I DIDN’T THINK I WAS SUCH A DUMB BUNNY BUT I WAS. RIGHT AFTER I STARTED TO WORK THIS MAN I WAITED ON, HE WAS FROM NEW YORK CITY, AFTER HE GOT THROUGH EATING AND I HAD GIVEN HIM HIS CHECK, HE SAID, "I’D LIKE A DEMITASSE, PLEASE." SO I WENT TO THE KITCHEN AND I ASKED THE CHEF, "JIM WHAT IS A DEMITASSE?" HE WAS A BIG, GOOD LOOKING INDIAN, A DIGNIFIED MAN, BUT HE LEANED BACK AND JUST LAUGHED, AND TOLD ME THAT IT WAS COFFEE. HE TOLD ONE OF THE HELPERS, "FRED, FIX UP RUBY PEARL A DEMITASSE TRAY, SHOW HER HOW TO DO IT." SO HE GOT A LITTLE LACE NAPKIN, THEN A LITTLE SAUCER, THEN HE PUT ANOTHER LITTLE LACE DOILY INSIDE OF IT, THEN SET THE CUP ON TOP OF IT, THE SPOON, SUGAR AND CREAM. I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS SUCH THINGS AS A DEMITASSE. AND THEY HAD FINGER BOWLS, YOU KNOW. WE HAD TO GO TO SCHOOL ONCE A WEEK AND STUDY MANNERS AND THINGS, WHICH SIDE, WHO TO WAIT ON FIRST, DIFFERENT THINGS. HOW TO PLACE YOUR SILVERWARE. ANNE, THE GIRL THAT I WENT TO VISIT IN COLORADO LAST YEAR, SHE AND I ROOMED TOGETHER AND SHE TAUGHT ME A LOT OF THINGS TO DO AND SAY, SO MY COURSE WASN’T AS BAD AS [IT WAS FOR] THE OTHER GIRS, SHE SHOWED ME THE ROPES AS THEY SAY. WE WORE BLACK OF A MORNING AND AT NIGHT WE WORE ALL WHITE, WHITE SHOES, EVERYTHING, OUR HAIR SLICKED BACK. OF COURSE, MINE WAS CURLY, I HAD TO PUT A NET OVER MINE. OUR HEAD WAITRESS, SHE WAS SCOTCH, AND SHE MARRIED THE CHEF, THE INDIAN, AND THEY HAD A LITTLE BOY. ANYWAY, SHE WORE HER HAIR SLICKED BACK IN A BIG BUN AND IT LOOKED SO NEAT AND SHE DIDN’T HAVE TO WEAR A HAIRNET. WE LIVED THERE IN A DORMITORY UP ABOVE THE RESTAURANT. THE BOYS STAYED THERE, TOO. THEY HAD ONE WING AND WE HAD ANOTHER ONE. BUT THEY SWITCHED IN THE NIGHT, YOU’D SEE A BOY OR GIRL GOING ACROSS TO ANOTHER ROOM. THE HARVEY HOUSE WAS VERY NICE AND FORMAL WITH WHITE CLOTHS AND NAPKINS. THEY WOULD CALL AHEAD FROM THE TRAIN AND TELL US HOW MANY TO EXPECT FOR LUNCH OR DINNER. WE HAD COATS HANGING, THEY LOOKED LIKE AN EVENING JACKET, BLACK, AND IF A MAN CAME IN WITHOUT A COAT IN THE DINING ROOM, THEY COULD [EAT] AT THE COUNTER [WITHOUT A COAT], WE WOULD BRING HIM A COAT. A BUNCH OF MEN CAME ON THE NOON TRAIN ONE DAY. I WAS ON DRINKS THAT DAY AND PART OF MY JOB WAS TO GO AROUND AND TAKE THEIR HATS AND IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE A COAT, TO BRING THEM A COAT. SOME OF THEM RESENTED IT, THOSE BIG RANCHERS FROM TEXAS, AND THIS GUY WAS FROM TEXAS. HE WAS JUST A NEW-RICH OIL MAN, AND HE HAD A HAT. BACK THEN MEN WOULDN’T HAVE THOUGHT OF EATING WITH THEIR HATS ON LIKE THEY DO TODAY. ANYWAY, I WENT AND ASKED HIM, "MAY I TAKE YOUR HAT." HE SAID, "NO, I’M NOT ABOUT TO LET YOU TAKE MY HAT. I JUST GOT THIS YESTERDAY MORNING AND I PAID $57.00 FOR IT." IT WAS A WHITE HAT, GRAYISH WHITE, A REGULAR COWBOY HAT. SO HE PUT IT UNDERNEATH HIS CHAIR ON THE CROSSED BRACES THERE. WELL, HE GOT TO TALKING, HE WAS A GREAT HAND TO TALK, AND WHEN HE’D TALK HE WOULD PUSH HIS CHAIR BACK. WHEN HE PUSHED IT BACK AND WIGGLED AROUND GETTING HIMSELF FIXED IN IT, HE SET A LEG OF THE CHAIR RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT HAT. THAT LIKE TO BUSTED ME UP. I GOT TICKLED. MR. GUNTHER, THE MANAGER, WAS WORKING THE CASH REGISTER THAT DAY AND HE SEEN ME AND HE KNEW I WAS ABOUT TO BURST AND HE MOTIONED ME TO COME UP THERE. I TOLD HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND I SAID, "YOU ALWAYS TOLD US NEVER TO INTERRUPT A CONVERSATION WHEN THEY’RE TALKING AND HE’S JUST TALKING ALL THE TIME, I COULDN’T TELL HIM." SO HE SMILED THEN ABOUT IT. I WENT BACK TO MY PLACE AND, WE’D JUST STAND REAL STRAIGHT WITH OUR HANDS BEHIND US, SO I STOOD THERE AND WATCHED THE DRINKS AND KEPT THE GLASSES FULL. THIS GUY GOT UP FROM THE TABLE AND HE LEFT $2.00. I THINK I MADE ABOUT $10.00, THERE WAS EIGHT OF THEM AT THE TABLE. HE SEEN THAT HAT AND, OH, HIS FACE TURNED RED AND HE BEGAN TO BLUSTER AND STUTTER AND LOOKED AT ME AND HE SAW I WAS JUST ABOUT TO POP YET, YOU KNOW, IT WAS STILL JUST SO FUNNY TO ME AND I SAID, "WELL SIR I COULDN’T TELL YOU, YOU WERE TALKING ALL THE TIME." MR. GUNTHER DIDN’T THINK I SHOULD HAVE TOLD HIM THAT, BUT THAT WAS THE REASON I DIDN’T TELL HIM. BUT I KIND OF LIKED THE OLD BLOWGUT. WHEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED, I ALWAYS LAUGHED. EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY TO ME. EVEN AT HOME DADDY USED TO GET ON TO ME FOR LAUGHING. NELLIE AND I GOT SENT AWAY FROM THE TABLE A LOT OF TIMES FOR LAUGHING. DAD WOULDN’T LET US SIT AT THE TABLE AND LAUGH. ANOTHER TIME THIS FAMILY CAME IN, JUST NEWLY RICH FROM THE OIL, ALL DRESSED UP, YOU COULD TELL ALL THEIR CLOTHES WERE NEW. THEY HAD A DAUGHTER ABOUT 17 OR 18, I GUESS. I SET HER PLACE, HAD A LITTLE PLATE, AND LITTLE LACE DOILY, AND A FINGER BOWL WITH A SLICE OF LEMON. SHE PICKED UP THE FINGER BOWL AND DRANK IT. IT’S A LOT FUNNIER TO SEE SOMEONE LIKE THAT MAKE A MISTAKE THAN IT IS SOME DUMB SOMEBODY, THEY THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING. THAT WAS BACK IN THE LATE ‘20s AND THERE WASN’T NOTHING TO WAYNOKA AT ALL, JUST THE BIG HARVEY HOUSE AND THEY HAD JUST PUT IN THE AIRPORT. THAT’S WHERE THE PLANES FROM THE EAST AND THE ONE’S FROM THE WEST WOULD MEET AND THE PASSENGERS WOULD CHANGE PLANES. SOME OF THEM WOULD COME THAT FAR ON THE TRAIN THEN THEY WOULD GET OFF THE TRAIN AND GO THE REST OF THE WAY ON THE AIRPLANE, NEW YORK OR CALIFORNIA, WHICHEVER WAY THEY WERE GOING. THAT’S HOW I GOT TO SEE SO MANY MOVIE STARS. ALL THE OLD ONES CAME THROUGH THERE. WE SAW GRETA GARBO, JOHN GILBERT, WALLACE BERRY, THAT GUY THAT PLAYS THE WEREWOLF SO MUCH, LON CHANEY. SEEN A LOT OF WOMEN, I CAN’T THINK OF THEIR NAMES. I’VE GOT A PAIR OF SCISSORS THAT BELONGED TO ONE OF THEM, SHE LEFT THEM.
      ONE TIME, I DON’T REMEMBER JUST HOW COME, I WAS WORKING THE COUNTER AND WILL ROGERS CAME IN. HE WANTED A BOWL OF PRUNES, SO I GOT HIM A BOWL OF PRUNES. AND HE GOT THIS PRUNE UP ON A SPOON AND UP TO HIS MOUTH AND HE LOOKED AT IT AND PULLED IT BACK AND SAID, "I WONDER HOW MANY TIMES THAT HAS GOT THIS CLOSE, AND A LITTLE CLOSER MAYBE, AND THEN BANK IN THE DISH." HE HAD A WAY OF TALKING THAT ANYTHING HE SAID SOUNDED FUNNY. LINDBERG AND HIS WIFE, THEY CAME THROUGH THERE ON THEIR HONEYMOON. THEY STAYED THERE, ANNE MORROW, SHE WAS HIS WIFE. LADY VANDERBILT, MAE WEST, LOTS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE CAME THROUGH THERE. WE HAD A LITTLE ROOM WHERE THE COLORED PEOPLE HAD TO EAT, THEY COULDN’T EAT IN THE DININGROOM. ONE WOMAN, SHE WAS MARRIED TO A WHITE MAN, HE WAS SOME BIGSHOT IN THE MOVIE BUSINESS, AND SHE SAID, "I HAVEN’T GOT ANY BUSINESS SITTING BACK IN HERE WHERE PORTERS EAT." BUT SHE HAD TO EAT THERE. AND IT MADE ME KIND OF GLAD THAT SHE HAD TO EAT THERE, SHE ACTED SO BIGHEADED. ANNE AND I WOULD CLEAN THE PLACE THEY ATE AT THE AIRPORT. THAT WAS OUR JOB; WE GOT PAID EXTRA FOR IT. TWA! THEY PAID US, WE BOTH WORKED TO HELP OUR FAMILIES AND WHEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT CAME ALONG MR. GUNTHER WOULD GIVE THAT TO US. THEN WE WORKED OUT OF HARVEY’S AROUND OVER TOWN AT DIFFERENT PLACES WHEN THEY’D HAVE A WEDDING OR SOMETHING BIG IN THEIR HOMES, WE’D GO IN AND SERVE IT FOR THEM; WE GOT PAID EXTRA FOR THAT. ANNE AND I WERE GOING TO BE SHIPPED OUT TO THE GRAND CANYON ONE TIME, THEN ANOTHER TIME WE WERE GOING TO ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO. BUT HER DADDY GOT WORSE AND SHE COULDN’T GO; I DIDN’T WANT TO GO ON MY OWN SO I NEVER WENT. THAT WAS BEFORE WE HICHHIKED TO CALIFORNIA. WE JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN. HER HUSBAND WAS GOING TO TAKE A TRIP, GOING SOMEWHERE ON BUSINESS, AND SHE SAID, "THIS WILL GIVE RUBY AND ME A CHANCE TO TAKE A TRIP." MAC HAULED US OUT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF EL RENO [OKLAHOMA] THEN DUMPED US OUT. I FORGOT TO PACK MY BIBLE. I WAS WORKING DOWN HERE AT THIS HOME THEN, AND I HADN’T TOOK MY BIBLE AND I ALWAYS READ MY BIBLE EVERY DAY, IT WAS A HABIT. SO MAC SAID, "WELL YOU CAN TAKE MY BIBLE THIS SMALL NEW TESTAMENT." AND HE JUST THREW IT ON TOP OF MY CLOTHES IN MY SUITCASE. THIS TOWN, I FORGET THE NAME OF IT BUT IT IS JUST BEFORE YOU GO INTO THE DESERT BEFORE YOU GO IN TO CALIFORNIA, THEY SEARCH YOUR BAGGAGE. WE’D JUST LEFT OUR RIDE AND THEY’D GONE ON THROUGH. THEY WASN’T GOING TO CALIFORNIA. I SEEN THE POLICE WAS GOING THROUGH ALL THE SUITCASES, SO I WENT ON DOWN THERE. ANNE JUST WALKED ACROSS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET, AND THEY WENT AND GOT HER. SHE HELD THAT AGAINST ME FOR A LONG TIME. I SAID "WELL, I THOUGHT WE MIGHT AS WELL GET IT OVER WITH AND THEN WE’D GET SOMETHING TO EAT BEFORE WE TAKE OUT." THEY OPENED MY SUITCASE FIRST, I WAS AHEAD OF HER YOU SEE, AND THERE WAS THAT BIBLE RIGHT ON TOP. ONE OF THEM SAID, "THERE’S NO USE IN GOING THROUGH HER LUGGAGE. NO ONE WOULD BE SLIPPING SOMETHING THROUGH AND PACKING A BIBLE HITCHHIKING" SO HE JUST LOCKED MY CASE BACK UP AND SET IT DOWN THERE BESIDE ME AND OPENED HERS. THEY WENT THROUGH EVERY PIECE SHE HAD, UNDERWEAR, EVERYTHING. SHE WAS SO MAD SHE COULD HAVE SPIT. WE HAD LOT OF FUN. WE CARRIED OUR MONEY IN OUR SHOES. WE NEVER HAD TO THUMB A RIDE SOMEONE ALWAYS JUST STOPPED AND PICKED US UP. THEY WERE ALL NICE, EVERYONE THAT PICKED US UP WAS JUST AS NICE AS THEY COULD BE, GOING AND COMING, UNTIL ALONG IN TEXAS WE GOT IN A T-MODEL FORD WITH THESE TWO OLD MEN. THEY MUST HAVE BEEN SEVENTY. THEY GOT CUTE, YOU COULDN’T KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF OF YOU. WE TOLD THEM TO STOP AND WE GOT OUT OF THE CAR. THEY WERE THE ONLY ONES WE HAD ANY TROUBLE WITH, AND THEY WERE OLD MEN, AND US JUST TWO YOUNG GIRLS. WE GOT A RIDE WITH SOME PEOPLE; THEY WERE GOING TO VISIT SOME PEOPLE AND STAY THERE AWHILE THERE IN EL PASO. SO THAT NIGHT WE WENT TO A POLICEMAN - WHEN WE GOT IN TROUBLE OR ANYTHING WE ALWAYS WENT TO THE POLICE, WE WOULDN’T ASK STRANGERS. SO I SAID, "I’M GOING TO ASK THAT POLICEMAN WHERE THE YWCA IS." SO I ASKED HIM AND HE SAID, "WELL THERE’S A YW ALRIGHT BUT IT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN. MY WIFE HAS A ROOM AND IF I DIDN’T TELL YOU THAT SHE HAD IT AND SHE FOUND [OUT] ABOUT IT SHE WOULDN’T FIX MY EGGS RIGHT FOR A MONTH." HE WAS A GREAT BIG OLD IRISH POLICEMAN. HE TOOK US OUT THERE AND INTRODUCED HER AND WE STAYED THERE. WE DIDN’T PAY VERY MUCH ABOUT $5.00 FOR BOTH OF US AND SHE HAD US COME IN AND EAT WITH THEM, JUST AS NICE AS COULD BE.
      ONE LITTLE PLACE DIDN’T HAVE A YW AND WE GOT US A MOTEL AND STAYED THERE, SCARED TO DEATH, IT WAS SO NOISY, OUT THERE IN THE PLAINS, SEEMS LIKE WE PAID $6.00 FOR THE TWO OF US THAT NIGHT. THERE IN EL PASO WE GOT ON A SIGHTSEEING BUS, THAT’S THE ONLY TIME WE PAID ANYTHING ON THE TRIP OUT THERE. YOU REMEMBER THAT LOVESONG, "RAMONA?" WELL, WE WENT TO SEE WHERE RAMONA HAD LIVED, THERE WHERE THE SNAKE KILLED HIM. WE WENT TO THAT PLACE WHERE THE SEA COMES UP IN THE DESERT. THINGS LIKE THAT WAS SO INTERESTING TO US BECAUSE WE’D NEVER SEEN ANYTHING. THAT WAS MY FIRST TIME TO SEE THE OCEAN. WE WOULDN’T LET ANYONE THAT PICKED US UP PAY FOR OUR MEALS OR ANYTHING; THAT WAY THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY EXCUSE FOR GETTING FRESH. WE ALWAYS PAID OUR OWN WAY. WE RODE WITH TWO BANKERS FROM WICHITA, KANSAS, AND THEY SAID, "WELL, YOU CAN PAY YOUR WAY BUT WE’RE GOING TO GET THE DRINKS." WELL, ANNE PICKED UP THE GLASS, IT WAS JUST A LITTLE GLASS, FANCY LOOKING GLASS, AND SHE JUST DRANK HERS RIGHT DOWN. I NEVER HAD DRUNK SPIRITS, I DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BOOZE, SO I TRIED TO ACT LIKE HER. I GOT CHOKED, THE WAITRESS AND EVERYBODY WAS POUNDING ME ON THE BACK, IT WAS EMBARASSING. TRYING TO ACT LIKE SOMEBODY, I WAS LIKE THAT GIRL THAT DRANK HER FINGER BOWL. ANNE JUST DRANK HERS RIGHT DOWN! SHE LIKES HER BOOZE YET, TOO. ANNE’S UNCLE LIVED THERE IN RIVERSIDE [CALIFORNIA] AND WE STAYED WITH THEM AND WENT DOWN TO SAN DIEGO AND WATCHED THOSE BIG SHIPS COME IN. WE HAD A CHANCE TO GO OUT ON A PLEASURE BOAT, THEY HAD IT OUT THERE, THIS MAN THAT WE WAS RIDING WITH TOLD US, "YOU GIRLS COME ON AND I’LL JUST INTRODUCE [YOU] AS SOME FRIENDS OF MINE." OF COURSE WE DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO WEAR, EVEN IF WE’D WANTED TO, YOU KNOW TO LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THEY DID, BUT HE INVITED US. WE SAW THE BIG SHIP, SETTING OUT IN THE BAY, COULD HEAR THE MUSIC FROM IT. JUST IMAGINE US TWO GREENHORNS WALKING ON THAT.

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    1. [S159] HATTIE VESTA TOWER-CAUDLE, PEARL CAUDLE-MOSER,EA.


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Judith Ferguson says...
To the Moser family, I have performed the story of Ruby Pearl for several years, performing for NWOSU, Enid Historical Society, Waynoka Historical Society, Dodge City Historical Society, Protection KS historical society, and many other groups. I love telling the story of a warm and interesting woman. She was so genuine and open. (I didn't know until I read in this history, that Roy was killed in Protection, KS)
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