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2 8T, CHARLEY J. BIO^'-PiY KCRI/I nn-pi r.';0" tkcloi-y Fn.iect Cor Oklahoma Form A-(S-ny) Robert H. Boatman Field Worker*s n^m 82, This report made on (date) r^me Charley t«haley 2. Post Office Address Blench&rd P. i 7>. Residence address (or location) h mile Test, 2 Miles south of Coll 4. DATE 3? 3TITH: ".ortli 1l1 - Year Place of birth Arkansas 6. Name of Father Js&ies M Place of birth Tennessee Other information anout father 7. Name of Mother Mary Thompson Place of birth Missouri Oth^r information ibout mo-'h ^ I'otcs or '.-omnlete narrative by th3 field v;o r kftr doalin.-r?iith the life and stjry of tho porson intorvi^-ed. Re^er to l.'anual for suggested subjects Lnd Questions. Continue on blank sheets if necesiajjy and attach firrrly to this form. Fur.ber of sheets 'attached

3 165 HATET, CHARLEY" 7. INTERVIEW 498B Robert R. Boatman, Interviewer, JUly 22, An Interview with Mr. C^ar^ey JT, Ha^ey. BTmnchnrd, Oklahoma. born Merch J1, 1866 in the 5?tatR of Arkansas. I coi.m from Aricnnsoe to Texas in on early day end opent -»n1y a few years there, oorainp from Texas to the Indian Territory I settled neor BosweTI e towi in Brytn County nc* here I began fanning. The land wee very fertile. I fermec 1 esbout the 8flwe as fi^t the farraersj just gmaii cropn wer«grown of cotton and Indian com. The ^and woum then produce often an ranch SB O ba^e of cotton to the ncre ond from seventy-fitre to one hundred and twenty-five bushel of corn nn:? rost a^i fannore wou^d have e oma'p patch o^ t»heat for brend. Forming wns altogether different from T?het ". it is today. In preparing ^ond, vine horse or steer was used end hn eight inch turning p^ow tc list up

4 1G6, CHARLET J. INTERVIEW the lend with four furrows to the row and all seeds were planted by hand end in chopping 'or thinning cotton we used an eye hoe and cut the weeds and then when the cotton was about a foot high, it was thinned by hand by putting up the smaller stalks by hand* Most a~n clothing wos mode at home by the old spinning wheel and loom, end we at so made the dye to color the cloth. The roots of walnut wore dug, and the berk of the!.»oots was boiled in a wash-pot and a bit of copperas added to set the dye*. The ototh was then dipped into the solution. The walnut made a brown color, indigo was blue made in the seme way only borax was used for setting It, living After/a fe* years near Boswel 1, I moved to Clftin County and settled near Womaok, which was a country town, located on Walnut Cr«ek some three ml las southeast of where. Btanchard nov> is*tfc»ar«r

5 167 CHAKLKT J. INTERVIEW wee e store and a post office BU6 a cotton gin, owned and operated by W B. Tirby and Edwards and mail tree oerriod to ond froa Anoderko in a heck,which vcxpti carry psssergers el so*.. In 1908 e«n«the 0, C. ftnllrond thet was built from T.ehigh by way of Ada, Purcel** end Chiekesha end'it wnrt then that B^anohard VBB established end aino Cole r.nd r e8hin ton. Thex 1 * t»es a post office established at Blanchard and also one at Womeck. There was s poet office at Fomack for quite aahile after Blijncherd and then ITirby end "Edr^rds moved their store to Blancherd in 1906 and the ^in waa moved to Dibble and the post office et Womeck was taken away and Old FomecJc wse abardonod and e 1! there is today to show is toe o^d place where the store foes once located* A^ery Madden was the first man to erect a store at Cole end next was 4.L. Read. Blanohard has grown

6 \ 1G8 HATE?, CHARLEY J* INTERVIEW to be a Tery prosperou* agricultural towijirith a population of eight hundred people* It is located near walnut Creaky the north part of MeClain County, on United States Highway 62, I fcow ^ire seren railea aoutheaat of BTenchard, at my ovn home and I am atili active in ure\ bnetnea at a very declining age*