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1 HUMAN, GiiORGE INTJsHVIEW #

2 - 8 - Form A-(S-149) BIOGRAPHY FORM WORKS PRO&ESS ADMINISTRATION Indtiaxi-riorxeur History Project for 5 Oklahoma 321 BDMAN,-GgCftGB. ln'lerview. * O Field Worker*s name rhad smith,, Jr>. This'report made on (date) august 10, 1937, 193 ^ 1. Name George Hainan. 2. Post Office Address ohlekasha, Oklahoma, 3. Residence address (or location) 3 miles south of Ohickashsu 4. DATE OF BIRTH: Month September Day 11 Year Place of birth' ^sxas. 6. Name of Father George numan. Place of birth lexas. Other information about father Buried at Mqskogee, Oklahoma* 7. Name of Mother &ary nudnell Place of birth xexas. information about mother purled in xexas. Notes or complete narrative by the field worker dealing with the'lifs and story of the person interviewed. Refer to Manual for su^'g-ted subjects and questions. Continue on blank sheets if necessary and attach firmly to this form. Number of sheets attached 3,

3 322 HUMAN, GBQRGE. '' iwffiryiew thad Smith, jr. field Worker* August 10, An interview with ueorge numan,. Ghickaaha, Oklahoma. l crossed Ked Hiver at ; hackerville on a ferry boat in i was with my folks and we stopped in the Ghickasaw Nation at Beef Creek. My father rented a farm from joe wilson and we raised cotton and corn, x'he cotton made one-half to thre^ qaarters of a balp to the acre and this we ginned at fauls valley, selling it for seven cents per pound, ihe corn made thirty bushels to the acre and sold for fifteen cents per bushel, when a buyer could be found", the corn they needed. au-t usually everyone raised all ' ' *' S. J. iiarvin owned the store at. beef oreek, but some one else ran it for him. jqr«itiendricks owned a drug store there, but he practised very little medicine, as ur. j?rost was a very important or prominent doctor there at that time. Idy father, step-no^her and i w>re poor people and we lived in a dugout, that had only one window and one door. EYery year my father would have to mortgage his team and twenty-five acres of cotton to 8. J. uarvln for supplies to

4 H01IAN, GROHQB. INTERVIEW sake a crop with. My father would usually buy a big bill of plain groceries, such as beans, bacon, coffee, flour and syrup and if there was any money left we would get a coupon book with that taich cash coupons in it. rhere were lots cf turkey and deer in the country. we generally went hunting on Sundays, ne had what we called deer stands on tave wayes* ranch. Mis ranch was covered with blacic jack trees, and small prairie glades, jive or six men would get near the prairie glades, and watch for the deer as someone scared them up* we never failed to get a deer, for several years, JL always used a forty-rfour saddle Winchester. jrank kurray had a general mercantile store at jsrin Springs, ne was a white man, but had an Indian wife, and he controlled a great deal of land, and had lots of cattle and horses. ' - in 1890 several farmers near iieef Creek had begun to raise oats and our thresher crew was made up mostly of saen and boys who had made the run into old Oklahoma the year before, -jfcresher hands at that time were only paid fifty cents per day and board.

5 HUMAH, C80HQS. JLAKRYIgw in 1893 i came to uhlckasha^, and got \a j-ob from Dan Garland, cutting corn with a corn; knife, and bunching it tip in shocks, and then tying a string around it. l started my ahocks by crowing two \8talks of corn from two different rows which hadn't been cut, and tying a string around the two stalks, these were used to\pile my loose corn against. Mr. Garland paid me fifteen dollars, per mpnth with board. After my work was' finished there that fall i got a job driting a freight wagon from ChiOkasha to *ort Sill, hauling supplies for the government, ifor whi<jh work i was given twenty dollars a month, we.forde.d several creeks on our route to *ort Sill, but in those days they weren't boggy; the banks vere hard, and not covered with mud as they are today %. r think;this was true because, there wasn't any land broke out, and the soil didn't wash away during hard rains.