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a. Note:   ! Joyce, Kathy and Gale were sealed to Ross E. Clark and Juanita Carriker on the 3 Sep 2002 in the Oklahoma City Temple. In the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Juanita Carriker when young would go over to the Sam Worsham place which was Cousins of hers. In the back yard they had cages of snakes . She said they had barrels which the kids would ride. She said she would get on those barrels and ride them among those cages of snakes, thinking they couldn't get her as long as she was on the barrels. Jaunita was such a tom boy but all her cousins were boys, then two brothers One time there was a man who lived in a dough out. He was scared of anything that moved, so the kids filled his pockets with anything that moved Toads, spiders, bugs . He put his clothes completely on with out finding them. Once on he started discovering them and she said, she never saw anyone pull their clothes off as fast as he did. Once she and friends as a practical joke put a neighbors wagon up on his barn. To day they would put the kids in jail. HISTORY OF JUANITA CARRIKER 28 May 1986 by Jerry Gale McFarland My Fathers name is Thomas Arthur Carriker he was born in August the 18 in Pauls Valley Oklahoma. My Mothers name was I.D. Fish she was born March 19, 1896 My mother is still living in Houston in the Golden Age Mannor nursing home. My Full name is Juanita Carriker. Juanita is spelled the indian way and it means little Jonnie. My aunts nicked name me Nita. my birthday is Sep 5, 1915 and I was born in Love County, Oklahoma. I was a 7 month baby. I waighed 2 1/2 pounds and I was born with typhoid fever when I was 6 Months old. I weighed 6 lbs. and they kept me in a shoe box sitting on the oven door. At that time they didn't have incubators for children. My mother breast fed me and kept me close to her it was in Sept and was starting to get cold then. My mother said that when she had me she had been sick with typhoid fever therefor I had the fever when I was born. I was born at home there was a doctor present when I was born but I don't remember his name. Mamas sisters came in and took care of her their names were Wyoma, and Arizona Fish. I was born a perfect baby except for having typhoid fever and being small. They didn't think I would live until I was 12 years old because I was always so sickley. I had the rickets when I was a year old. In those days they didn't have the vitamins you needed and it was poor nutrition. My mother was a very domineering self centered woman. My mother was a trouble causer. When I was a child I thought that every body was ugly to my mother but when I grew up I realized my mother was a trouble causer. and I can remember things she did when I was a child that completely fooled me but since I am an adult. I have realized that alot of it was just her. For instance when I was 5 years old she clamed she had inflammatory rheumatism . Well for 9 months her sisters took turns comeing to our house taking care of us children, and taking care of the house and cooking for all of us, and she sat in a chair. The best I can remember about this chair looked about like a barber chair today but it was a chair that you could tilt back she would sit in that chair all day long and papa would put her to bed at night and one day she just recovered and got up out of the chair and walked off. Today I know that people don't do that with inflammatory rheumatism. Most of them are on crutches the most of their life, but my mother just recovered and got up and walked off. Mama was about 5'4" tall and slinder in her later years she gained a lot of weight but she lost that. My mother was a very dressy and a very good looking woman she had brown hair and dark eyes and a medium complection. I will never forget one time when I was a child we were coming from Healdton, Okla this was about a year after she recovered from her inflammatory rheumatism and we had a touring car which was a 2 seated car and you could put the top up or back like a convertable. and there was a curve kinda on a hill comeing from Healdton from where we lived and my father came flying down that curve and my mother had on a gorgeous brown velvet sailor hat with an ostrich plume all across the top of it and that hat went sailing across the country papa had to stop the car and they had J.D. go get mamas hat but she had a beautiful suit in those days they called them coat suits and it was brown trimmed in a real rich brown braid and then her hat was this brown velvet hat with this ostrich plume that went all across the top of it. But my mother dressed beautifuly and was a beautiful woman. When I was born we lived on a farm and my father was a farmer and then when I was about 5 years old we moved to the oil fields. and I grew up in the oil fields. My father made good money for those days. He made $120.00 a month and that was big money back then. of course today people make more than that a week. My mother was a gardener. She loved to garden and back then she did quite a bit of quilting the ladys all had quilting bees and as I said I grew up in the oil field and sometimes in the winter time we wouldn't have any heat, if the power went down in the winter time we had no heat and there was one family in the neighborhood that had a stove that they could convert to wood and if it got cold and gas all went off then we went to their house and oh that was such a fun time for all the kids, I don't imagine the parents thought it was very fun to have all those kids together but oh we kids had a ball and they would cook big meals for everybody, everybody took there own palets and stayed there. My mother was a very selfish woman every thing was for her. She never thought anybody knew anything except her or did anything right except her. Of course I didn't realize that as a child like I do today. As a child I thought she was the most marvelous person in the world and she knew everything and I thought everything she said was right. I had to wait until I was an adult to realize that my mother was wrong about so many things. My mother was Lord and Master of the home she ran things. She stayed home and took care of the house and my father took care of the bills. The most priceless story I have ever heard about my mother was a story about her when she was a child she had a brother just older than she and he always got her into all kinds of trouble his name was Robert, this was back in the early days of Oklahoma and my grandfather moved to this community and he rented this farm and there was no house on it to begin with and he built a half dough- out and in case you don't know what a half doughout is it is like a storm seller they dig into the ground and then part of it is built up above the ground and a roof put over it then and they lived in this half doughout until they got the house built . Well after they got the house built they got a hired hand to help them with the farm and he was from Canada and he had never seen any insects or lizzards. and he was terrified of any insects or of any wiggley thing. Just absolutely terrified of them. So every sunday morning he got up and he dressed up so my mother and uncle Robert decided the fun thing to do was on a saturday night they would put all these lizzards, frogs, crickets, grasshoppers, all kinds of things like that in his clothes, so they put them in his shoes and pant pockets, his shirt pockets and coat pockets and then they parked themselves out where they could watch him sunday morning. and he got up and dressed up as usual and the first thing he did was run his hand in his pocket and there was a lizzard in his pocket and he came flying out of that half doughout pulling those clothes off and every time he would move something would move in his pocket and he just absolutely came flying out of that half doughout pulling those clothes off. and mama and uncle Robert were sitting out hid waiting for him. My mothers nick name was Jack the only name my grandfather ever called her was Jack. Well when she was a very small child she and her brother were out playing and this squirrel came up where they were playing and mama reached over and caught it by the tail and it was just eating her hand up and her brother was yelling hold her Jack, hold her Jack, hold her Jack. and that squirrel just ate mamas hand up good, so from that day on they called her Jack. When I was a child every sunday all of the aunts and uncles took their children to my grandmothers house and we had Ice Cream and Cake every sunday. Everybody brought a cake and every body brought everything to make ice cream we just had a huge ice cream party every sunday at grandma and grandpas house. We made Ice Cream in hand freezers we would all sit out under a great big tree. They had Ice houses then and, useto they would have horse drawn wagon come by every day loaded with ice. and you had an Ice Box and you would order 50 lbs. 25 lbs. or 100 lbs. what ever you needed. This was at my mothers parents house. My fathers mother was alive but I never knew her very much. I was never around my fathers parents much because my mother didn't get along with my fathers family so , I was just never around them in fact I can hardly remember my grandmother Carriker (Johnnie Viola Shipman). I remember her mother more than I do her, cause I saw her when I was around 9 or 10 years old. I don't know what her father was like but her mother grandma Bolding (Brazoria Lelia (Stevenson) Shipman) read cards for a living she was a card reader and she lived in shawnee, Okla. and every body up there knew her. After grandpa Shipman died she married a man named Bolding so we called her grandma Bolding. My grandpa Fish (Joseph Duncan Fish) was also a card reader. As a child growing up my fun time was going to my grandma and grandpa Fish's house. I spent an lot of time at my grandma and grandpa's house. When I was very small they had the local grocery store they sold dry goods and they sold grocerys and in those days they sold both in the store and he would cut up lemons in a saucer and he would put salt on one side and he would cut up lemons and would take his knife and spear a piece of lemon and he would dip it in salt and would feed it to me and I developed a real love for sardines cause he would feed me sardines and crackers and cheese and crackers, but I would go to the store and stay with him and when it came lunch time why he would open up something in the store and feed me. But my grandmother was a real business person in the family she managed the store, now my grandfather went to the market and bought but, my grandmother managed the store and she managed the money in that family. I never went with my grandfather to market but he always came by our house on the way to market and asked us what we wanted and I will never forget one time he came by and wanted to know what I wanted and I told him I wanted some blue ribbons for my hair and he asked my brother J.D. what he wanted and J.D. said a piano and my grandfather said I can't bring a piano back in my wagon and what he really was trying to say was a banana, he was very young at that time. The day that J.D. was 3 days old Okla had the werst storm. that there had ever been in southern Okla. Every thing was just wiped out in Love County. It was called a cyclone it just took a wide swipe in the area. All day that my mother had been telling my dad and my aunt Wyoma that we were going to have a storm that we had better get dinner over early because we had to get to the storm celler and they told her that she could not go to the storm celler that J.D. was only three days old and that she could not go. She ate her dinner real fast and she got up and got dressed and was ready to go to the storm celler when they got through with dinner. Back then a woman spent two weeks in bed when she had a baby it wasen't like it is today where they get you up immediately so they took us to that storm celler and I will never forget sitting in that storm celler it seemed like we sat in there for hours and hours and hours. finally we could hear the vibration of horse hoofs. and my mother said there comes someone to see about us now. and sure enough they almost killed a horse getting to our house to see about us. Because my grandfathers house was blown completely away they never found any part of that house the store was not hurt but the house was blown completely away. In those days it was very popular to have a fancy stand table, it is a square shaped table that they would set in a corner and it had a second shelf and on the second shelf it had a nice water set, Papa had mama a fancy table an water set and people would come to our house that had kids and when their kids would come up and go to put their hands on it I would walk up to them and knock them down , they were not permitted to touch that. The only thing I can remember about my grand parents house is this huge cook stove they had it was a big one and had a big oven. One day Aunt Wyoma was cooking some Kashaws. A Kashaw is like a pumpkin but is shaped like a yellow crooked neck squash. You cut them in half and put butter, sugar and spices on them and bake them in the oven. I could smell that Kashaw cooking and oh it smelled so good, and to this day I cam remember how good that smelled. I would go in and ask Aunt Wyoma if the Kashaw was done and she would say no Juanita you run on and play, when the Kashaw gets done I will call you. Well it seemed like forever and I would go back in and ask if it was done and she would say no Juanita it hasen't had time it just seemed like it was forever waiting for that Kashaw to get done. Between the house and the fence and the store there was about four foot and they had planted all kinds of flowers mostly holly hocks. They lived in the city in a wooden frame house and the grocery store was next to the house. there was only one grocery store in the town. As far as my mothers child rearing I truley don't think she had any. I think the only thing she thought about was ruleing everybody with a Iron hand. She was very strict we went to bed early and we got up early and we went to school and we got our lessons done the minute we got home from school. I got most of the spankings because, I got blamed for everything I did and every thing my older brother did. She believed in spare the rod and spoil the child so she didn't spare the rod. I was the oldest child there were five of us in the family there were three boys and two girls. Garland Edgar was first and he was a seven month baby. He was born less than 9 months before I was. Every one of mamas sisters has had at least one seven month baby it ran in our family to have seven month babys. Garland only lived about one month and he died and was buried in Love County, Okla. In the same place where my grandma and grandpa Fish is buried. At Oswalt. I was born next and then J.D. (Joseph Duncan) was born after me. When J.D. was born they never gave him a name just Initials. the Initials stood for Joseph Duncan after my grandfather. But they only put Initials no name. Back in those days they used a lot of Initials and no name. He was born about two years after me and was a normal nine month birth in Love County., Okla. J.D. had a tremendous talent for mechanics. In fact during world War II he operated the Aqua Systems the best was I can explain it is in the tanks where they had gasoline that they put in the Airplanes they would put water in there and that would float the fule to the top. I don't know the principal but that is essentially what it did. He worked for a company called Aqua Systems and he traveled all over the country to various military bases. J.D. died of cancer of the lungs in October 1966 at the V.A. Hospital in Galveston, Texas Then came Thomas Oscar about 2 years after J.D. and he was born in Love County, Okla. He was drafted in the Army he was a gunner on a tank and was killed in 1943 the battle of the bulge he was an expert marksman and the day before he was killed he got two snipers and the fellow in the tank with him wrote my mother and said that it was a great comfort to have him at the h-ns on a tank because you knew you had great protection. and he was shot and killed outright. I was closer to Tommy than I was to eather one of my brothers he was a very kind and serious boy and would fight a circle . I saw he whipped every thing that would cross his path. Now he wouldn't get out and start a fight but if some one started it he would finish it. and when he went into the service he made the highest marks in shooting in Fort Knox, Ky. Then Junnie Joe was born in 1929 during the great depression. I am 15 years older than she is. June was more like my child than she was my sister. I took care of her when she was little and just adored her because I had always wanted a sister. After she grew up we had more in common and became more like sisters at the present time she is a Florest and is doing a terrific job. When I was little, I remember my aunts and uncles coming to visit us and we always spent christmas at my grandparents house but then . I spent most of my growing up years with them. My grandmother held the family together but when she died they didn't get together very much. On the holidays everyone would take food to my grandmothers like turkey and dressing, ham, pies and cakes and food like that. Oh I loved to have breakfast at her house she always had hot biscuits home made butter and plumb jam. and even to this day I love plumb jam and biscuits On Christmas everyone would have christmas at their home where they opened their packages then they would take their food and go to grandma and grandpa's house where all the family would meet and have a big dinner. I never will for get one time when grandma and grandpa was living down at Orr we went down there and grandpa had a horse that was blind and we kids would ride that horse around they would lead the horse and we kids would ride it. They had told us that he was blind and on this day going down to grandma and grandpa's we saw all these horses in this pasture and J.D. being about three or four years old said to papa. Daddy are those horses lights out to? On Easter we always colored easter eggs and went to grandma and grandpas and had a easter egg hunt and dinner. There were nine brothers and sisters in my mothers family so there were always lots of children there. My favorite cousin was Velma Worsham it was hard to say which was my favorite Aunt because all my Aunts adored me except one Aunt Lois and she was jealous of me. She had the grand child just younger than I and naturally being the oldest grand child and being so small when I was little and them thinking I was not going to live everybody was parcial to me, and they didn't like for Ruth to come to the house. I never bothered anything and Ruth would go to grandma and grandpa's and would just absoutely make hash of their house so the girls didn't like to clean up after her so they didn't like for her to come to the house. So my aunt Lois was real jealous of me , so you can understand why they liked me to come to the house and didn't like Ruth to come. My favorite Uncle was Uncle Orbin. I only had three uncles and I knew Uncle Orbin best. Mamas youngest brother I did not like , he was a gambler and one minute he had lots of money and the next he had none. He emposed on every body he lived off of them and used his money to gamble with and I don't like people like that. I was 6 years old going into primary and I had a teacher that did not like me and I had a rough time in school. When a substitute came to school I did just fine and they just bragged on me and bragged on me. But this one teacher did not like me , she was my first teacher and she found fault with everything I did. I think she didn't like me because of the way my mother dressed me. The teacher always made fun of the way I was dressed. I didn't know that I was dressed funny but I guess I was. I had long hair and mama always braided my hair on each side and brought the braid up on each side up above my ears and put a great big black bow of ribbon on each side and she called me a big black bird. I didn't like her any better than she liked me eather. She painted roses on her knees. and at that time that was suppose to be very darring , her name was Mrs. Wilson. I was a skinny little kid when I went to school. I only went to school three months the first year I was in school. I spent the rest of the time in bed. and I am sure I had reumatic fever because, I know today that my family thought I had T.B. because every thing I touched was scalled. If I ate out of a dish or drank out of a cup or anything like that , that was boiled . No one told me that then but, I had pneumonia after pneumonia. I learned to spell Pnewmoticine that is what they put all over my chest it was a gray salve. They didn't have antibotics and things like that back then to treat you with. All the time I was laying in bed they didn't bring me any school work to do or coloring books or toys to play with . All I can remember is laying in bed and I learned to spell differen't words. I would lay there and spell different words . I could see there in the room. The school building was a little wooden two room school primary through the fifth grade was in one room, and sixth through the eighth was in the other room. And we had a wood stove in the middle of the room I took my lunch it consisted of a biscut and some kind of meat and a cookie or piece of pie something like that. and there was no such thing as hot lunches then or a place to buy soft drinks. I liked about a mile and a half from school and had to walk to school. I went to the school probably about two years and then I went to another little school for about one year. then papa was transfered over to another lease and then I went to a school at Dundee. and that was a big consolidated school. They had the grade school in one building and the high school in another building. This was really a town then. My grade was in a room all by itself we didn't have to share with the other grades. and we had one teacher. I didn't have to take my lunch I was able to buy it across the street at a restaurant. and incidentally mama Allreds uncles wife Aunt Bell she cooked in that restaurant and she made the best pies I ever put in my mouth. I must have been about seven or eight years old. It was about that year that J.D. and I and a boy named Burt King set a barn full of hay on fire. back in the oil field then they used teams and wagons to haul things, see the roads were so bad at that time, they didn't have paved roads back then. and you couldn't drive trucks in the mud like it was so they used teams and wagons to haul pipe and thangs like that, and this Burt King's father was a German and he had a fine team of horses and they had this big barn for all of this hay and food and all you need and wagon and stalls for the mules and so forth and the three of us was playing in that barn and like kids will do we were playing with matches and set the barn on fire. fortunately Burt Kings father was there and he put it out right quick and then he told papa and if you think J.D. and I didn't get a beating , we really caught it. "Aunt Bell McCartys husbands name was Bud McCarty" My father was a short man he was all man he was partilly bald he had a little spit curl in front that we kidded him about he had blue eyes and brown hair he was a real fun person if he got a few drinks to many he would do a Irish Jig. It is a dance they do in Ireland his family was from Ireland not his parents but his grand parents. They were descendants from the English and his grandmother and great grandmother taught him to do the jig and if he got a drink to many why he would jig. I never see the english (Irish) jig that I don't think about my father. He was a happy go lucky individual. He was a quiet little person and you didn't mess with him because if he lost his temper , that was something else. He was just like a bannie rooster if somebody fooled with him, but he got along with everyone and was real quiet and everybody thought he was just real easy going and he was as long as you didn't push him to far , if you did he would fly in your eyes like onions, My dad and mom lived in the same neighbor hood growing up they probably met at a singing but I don't really know. Papa liked to go places and do things and my mother didn't. She always thought that she was to good for anybody. I think she felt ill at ease with people and didn't know how to talk to them. I have often wondered how the two got to gather, They are so different. but everybody liked papa and he enjoyed people and my mother didn't. His roll in the home was the provider, and he was very mechanicaly inclined, and an excellant pumper (a producer of oil) he handled the pumping of the oil wells and he would work to see what hours would get the most production. he would work with an oil well until he would see what time of the day you would get the most oil out of it. He was a teriffic farmer he produced more on a farm than anybody else in the whole neighbor hood. If he was raising cotton he would make more bales of cotton per acre than anybody in the neighborhood. He knew how to work the land to make it produce the most. Papa was very congenial with with his children and very easy going with us but we hated for him to whip us cause he didn't whip very often but when he did you knew you had had it . He whipped with a belt, his rasor strap. There was never any musical instrament played in my family. he loved to dance and he loved to swim, and my mother didn't like eather one of them.(Dundee was a school in Ragtown now Wirt) After the school at Dundee. I went to school at Healdton because we moved into another neighborhood . Healdton was my favorite school, people were friendly there. I wasen't the most popular girl in school, but I had lots of friends. I was in the ninth grade, first grade in high school when the depression hit. There were only two teachers in my life time that I didn't like and they didn't like me. The teacher I had when I first went to school and then we moved down on the farm in Love County when I was about fourteen, and I went to a little consolidated school and the teacher there did not like me and I was just bearly passing in that school and I couldn't understand that because , I had always been a good student. I don't mean that I made straight A's. In some subjects I did but I made good grades. and then I went back to Dundee school and my grades jumped from C's back up to b+ and A's using the same books and everything. I liked english and history best and I was a good student in math. Just regular math was okey but when I got to Algebra and Geomatry that was over my head. I didn't like that. We didn't have any sports for girls then. I joined the pep club and was on the debate team. I took public speaking, and I took drama. I am sorry I didn't take advantage of some of the things. I had mostly an art teacher. I had and I can't even remember her name but she was a teriffic artist. and I didn't realize she was a famous artist while I was going to school and later in life . I found out what a famous artist she was. I wish I had known at that time what a teriffic oppertunity I had to learn from her. I loved my debate club and loved to debate. If I haden't of married I probably would have become an attorney. and I had a very famous speech teacher he finally became state superintendant of schools. So he became a very famous person in Oklahoma. I never had any pets growing up as a child like dogs or cats. I liked to play games as a child. I was good at jumping the rope, kick the can, hide and seek, We had a game called black man, I was a very good runner and ran in all of the relay races in school . I was very fast, in fact that was considered quite unlady like back then in girls. I did not like dolls. I did play with some paper dolls. I would cut them out of the sears catalog. I loved to read and would read everything. I really had no favorite thing to read. by the time I was a softmore in High School I had read every book in the Library. I read all the news papers and I liked politics. The year that I was a freshman I studied communism, I was reading about all the things that was going on in Russia, We got a news paper that was doing an exposa on Russia. That is when I learned about Russia and I had a teacher . I am sure he was an communist I didn't know it back then, but he was a terrific teacher and I was one of the top pupels in his class and I went to the meets they would take students that were tops in their class to Southeastern State Teachers Collage to compeat with the other students in those classes. Now I always went in his classes science and Communist and he taught communism and I saw him tear that school up. and I knew I didn't like what he did, but I didn't know what it was then . Today I know what it was, and that was back when communism was getting such a good start in this country and I knew that I did not approve of the things that he did , but I didn't know what it was. When I was a kid I thought Hickory Dickory Doc was quite a poem. I liked poems and poetry My favorite poet was Edgar E. Guest. My favorite poem was Abou Ben Adam. Abou Ben Adam may his tribe increase. I awoke one night from a deep dream of peace. and saw an angel writing in a book of gold. What writest thou said above an atom. The names of those that lovest the Lord. Is my name one of those . Nay not so. If I am not one that lovest the Lord. Put me down as one that lovest his fellow man. The Angel wrote and vanished. The next night he appeared and low. In Adams name lead all the rest. I didn't get in all in there but that is the jest of it when I was a junior in high school my favorite song was. I did not like slang expressions, I was tought not to use slang expressions and to this day when I hear some one use slang expressions it just kinda rubs me the wrong way. Fads had never interested me . I never was a follower. When I was in Jr. High School it was a fad for a girl to ware anklets and high heel shoes. My mother refused to let me have a anklet. She said that young lady's didn't show there legs and I wanted anklets so bad and she wouldn't let me have them. It was a fad for girls to wear overalls. I wanted a pare of overalls and she said that ladys just didn't ware pans so I was not permitted to have a pare of them, but in her later years she wore slacks all the time. I had a begie pongey dress one time when I was a kid, that I thought was just absolutely gorgeous it had a long waist line on it and then ruffles all the way to the bottom of the skirt. and the ruffles were hem stiched and oh that was such a fine dress. reading was my thing , my hobby. As far as responsibilities I always did that ever there was to do . If there was laundry to do I did laundry with a rub board and a tub. We did laundry on saturday and we used lye soap or P & G soap (Proctor and Gambel soap) and on saturdays I might chop cotton or pick cotton or what ever there was to do. If there was canning to do I did canning. I grew up during the depression and there was no work for any one out side the home. I would pick cotton on saturday to have money to go to school on. Some time food was pretty scarce about that time we grew every thing that we could and we canned every thing that we could, I can remember one time during the depression everybody lost their jobs in Oklahoma. We always planted a lot of watermelon's and papa would take a load of watermelons to Healdton and sell them and I remember one time he didn't get back home and when it came time for dinner time and we didn't have anything to eat but some pumpkin and mama cooked that pumpkin and made some bread we used pumpkin like a vegatable. with sugar and sorgam molasses. The only vacation we ever took we went to Sulfer one time and I think we rented a tent. You could rent tents and stay on the banks of the river there and swim in that sulfer water and that was suposed to be like a health spa. Sulfer water was supose to be very healthy for you. People would go up there to fancy baths but you could go up there in the river and it ran down the river and that water was just as clear as crystal. We took a bath in the river and we camped out in a tent and that was such a fun time. J.D. and Tommy and I would go out there and stay in that water all day long. Every day papa would go out there with us but mama wouldn't she would never do anything like that. My mother never would have permitted us to have bathing suits so we went out there in our clothes. Between the ages of 5 and 12 years our finances were fine but when I got to be a teenager it was ruff, that was during the depression. Every Saturday night we went to a shoot em up western. That was all there was then and they were silent movies. There were no talkies then. Tom Mix was the star of the westerns. When we lived in the oil field we always had one of the best houses. I don't know how or why it all came about but it seemed like we always got the house that had been originally the superintendent's and it was a better house than the average people that worked for the oil company. Everybody liked papa and he got along well with them and he worked well with them. So for some reason or other we always got one of the nicest houses there was. We had nice furniture for the kind of furniture there was back in those days. Of course today you wouldn't consider it very nice furniture but back then you would consider it nice furniture. I would say that we were a middle class family. Most of the people that we lived around worked for the Oil field towns they didn't build big buildings. I grew up in oil field booms. The biggest oil field boom Oklahoma ever had (and it was so rough that one car did not drive on the road by it's self because if you did you were liable to be hi jacked and murdered). I never will forget one time we were driving down the highway and we saw a man lying out beside the road. Papa wanted to stop and see about him and Mama wouldn't let him stop. Because they had had several people that were hi jacked because they would stop to see about some one that was laying out beside the car like they were dead. When some body else would stop to see about them some one would jump out of the car or out of the ditch and hold them up. Mama never would let him stop. We never did hear anything about anyone getting killed or anything so we figured they were laying there to hi jack some one. For instance, if we were going to go to visit Aunt Eunice and uncle Sam that lived on the highway that was between Wilson and Ringling, Aunt Lois and Uncle Tom and Mama and papa and us kids would have two cars and go together because there was no highway patrol then or police force like there is today and it was dark roads. Roads weren't lighted like they are today. So two cars would travel together and it wasen't unusual for them to fish a newborn baby out of a tank or out of a slush pit some place. You had a lot of prostitutes and things like that in oil field booms. A lot of murders and things of that sort. Hi jackers and gamblers. My mother never did take in any children. She was too selfish for anything like that. When I was about 5 years old we haden't been living in the oil field very long when someone came running to our house and told us that, (you know that when they get ready to drill a big oil well they dig a big slush pit out to the side for the salt water and some oil to go into) They haden't started drilling the well but they had the slush pit built and it had come a big rain and there was water in this slush pit. These two kids went down to go swimming in the slush pit. One of them bet the other that he could dive down and come up with dry sand. He dove down and grabbed ahold of something and came up with it. It was a womans arm, so the kids ran off to tell some one what they had found. They drained that pit and they came up with nothing. So whoever put that woman in there saw those kids come up with that womans hand and must have got her out and did something with her because they drained that tank and could not find her. The kids saw the hand, so they knew that it was there. But things like that happened all the time. My grandmother Fish passed away when I was eleven years old and that was a great loss to our family. She had scratched her hand and an infection had set up. She got blood poisioning from it and died. She was about forty nine or fifty. She was young. When my father's mother died, he went to the funeral but we didn't. My mother would not have permitted us to go. We were not close to my father's parents. I was very found of my Grandmother Fish and very close to her. I guess I am very much like my grandma Fish. I went to see her sister when I went to Hawaii in 1966. her sister was living there and she had cataracs and was almost blind. She took my hand and said, "Oh you feel just like my sister, you have her hands". Then I had one of my aunts tell me several years ago that I felt like her mother, that I had little hands like her. In many ways I was told that I look like my grandmother. My grandfather was a typical Jewish father. He took care of the kids and my grandmother took care of the business. Until I was a great big kid, after he quit keeping the grocery store he lived on a farm. If I went to their house and he was down in the field working. I went down in the field. he sat down and I sat in his lap. I was a reat big kid ten or twelve years old, but he was a typical Jewish father. They all belonged to the Church of Christ and I grew up in the Church of Christ. My father and brother died of cancer and they said that my father died of T.B. also. He was in a T.B. Hospital. My aunt Eunice had her appendix removed and she died from it. I always knew things that I didn't know how I knew it. I always seemed to know things that were happening before they happened. As I grew older I knew when my brother was killed in Germany. he appeared to me. We were living in Ogden , Utah on Lincoln Avenue I was working for the Army Supply Depot. I came home that night and mopped all of my house and went in and crawled on the bottom bunk bed in the childrens room. I was lying there. I wasen't asleep. My brother appeared to me. Always when my brother was upset about something he would come to me and he would kinda squat down on his heels and talk to me about it. He came in and said, "Dam Sis it wasen't bad". I knew then that he was killed and that he was killed out right. Several days later we received word that he was missing in action. My parents thought that he was still alive because after months and months they still had not confirmed the fact that he was dead. But I knew that he was and sure enough when we found out about it he was killed out right. When he came into the room, I didn't attempt to talk to him. It did not surprise me to see him there, because I had similar things like this happen to me all my life. Then he just disappeared. I didn't tell any one about it because I knew that they would just laugh at me. Between the ages of 13 and 19 my dream was to be an attorney. I worked toward this goal by taking everything I could in english, public speaking. I studied laws and politics. I studied everything that would help me to be an attorney. But of course I got married instead. I got letters in Glee club and letters in the debate club and science and things of that sort. One of my special friends in school was a girl named Thelma Love. her father was the illegitimate son of old Sobe Love that Love county is named after. She was my best friend in school. I was always into trouble in school. Thelma Love would have the cramps real bad every month and her mother would fix her a hot toddy every day before she came to school. When she got to school she would just be drunker than a skunk. I used to escort her around to her classes and keep her away from her teachers so they wouldn't know that she was drunk. When she would get a little bit to giggly and loud in class, I would go up to the teacher and tell the teacher that she was having the cramps real bad and ask if I could take her some place to the girls room where she could lay down. I would take her into the girls room and keep her in there until she sobered up. I had a friend, now he wasen't a boy friend . I didn't date him. He was just a pal. His name was Alvin Barker and he was always a very mischievious boy, always out doing something crazy. He would come to school the next day and the minute I got into study hall, up would go Alvin's hand and the teacher would say, "Yes Alvin, you may speak to Juanita" and he would start telling me what he did the night before. he would get so tickled and he would start off real low and he would get louder and louder. Then the teacher would call him down because he was getting so loud. But that happened every morning. He was always into some kind of devilment. The year that I was a junior we had a teacher that was a person that thought nobody knew anything else but him. he was just going to rule everybody. he had always been used to teacher's kinda melting into our cranks and things like that. But this teacher couldn't take a joke. There was no fun about him at all. Traditionally the seniors did not take final exams. So this year on April Fools Day the seniors decided that they would play hooky. Well nobody else intended to play hooky, just the seniors. He blew his stack. he was going to go down there and take everybody's name that was walking to Ringling. So when he did, the whole high school walked out and we went to Ringling. We caught rides on Wagons, Trucks and any thing that was going to Ringling. He couldn't take everybody's names, so he didn't make the seniors take the exams cause the whole school turned out and he couldn't make everybody take the exam. Then when I was a sophmore, we went to a track meet at Dundee High School where I had gone to school before. I was going to school at Zanize at that time. We had a bus driver that told stories on us all the time. H would take the pep club to Wilson for a football game and they would serve apple cider. He would go home and tell all the kids parents over at Wilson that they gave a party for all the football boys and the pep club girls and that they served them liquor. It was just plain old apple cider. Some of the parent's wouldn't let their kids go to the football games because of that. He was the bus driver and so we all kinda had it in for him. Anyway, we go to this track meet. Well, we didn't want to stay for the track meet. We had already competed and we wanted to go home and get ready for a dance that night. he wanted to stay for the track meet and we were all sitting out in the bus. he said, "Well Im going to stay for that track meet so you all had better get ready to sit it out here in this bus". I popped off and said, "Oh well, thats all right we'll just take the bus and go off home". And boy he grabbed the keys out and starts off the bus and I said, "Oh thats alright, we know how to wire up the bus so it will drive with out a key". Well of course he didn't think any body knew how to do that. I didn't know that there was anybody that knew how to do that, but I did know that it could be done. Do you know that when he took off the boy's wired up that school bus and we took off we went to see one of our former teachers and I bet she could have killed all of us traumping into her house cause she had a fabulous house but we didn't stay very long then we went on home and delivered kids on the way and we drove up in the school yard where the bus went and everybody crowded up in the front so he couldn't see who was driving the bus and we made a pack that nobody would know who drove the bus. We figured we would be expelled from school for three days we were going to have a party one night, a dance another night and a picnic one day and we had things all set out what we were going to do, and no one ever let on that anything had ever happened so we were not expelled and that just runned our fun. I went to school with the craziest bunch of kids in the whole wide world. No body ever did anything bad just mischievious. None of the girls ever got pregnant or anything bad like that and all the kids stuck together one for all and all for one. If any of the kids got into trouble they all went for their defense. We all liked western music like Bob Wells, and the big band, the dances were the Fox Trot and the Waltz. My mother was a church of Christ so I wasen't permitted to dance. But my mother didn't know until the superintendant of papas company came to them and wanted me to represent the pure oil company in a charleston contest. My mother informed them that her daughter did not dance so that took care of that. I didn't stop danceing and later on mama let me dance. I guess she decided I was going to dance anyway. People had dances in their homes and we always had live bands, the boys in the neighborhood got together and played for us one of my cousins played the Violin. We didn't have refreshments we just danced . They didn't go out and sit in cars they just shook a leg and danced. We did some square danceing, no dance was complete with out a square dance. During the summer we worked in the fields and once in a while we would have picknics and hay rides with my friends. My mother never celebrated any birthdays so we didn't have any. Mothers church never had any special functions. We use to go to the holey roller meetings but that was only because it was during the depression and that was all there was to go to. We kids would all go and sit on the back seat and make bets on what woman in the neighborhood the Preacher would run away with at the end of the revival. The first boy I ever dated I can't remember his name but he was a friend of Doris Worsham and he played in the band with Manson Worsham. I must have been 15 or 16 I never dated a hole lot of boys. Girls didn't date much back then maybe on the week ends but not during the week. I went with crowds more than I dated. There was one fellow that I had a terrable crush on but he just saw me as a little sister, he didn't see me as a girlfriend, he had a steady girlfriend and he was as wild as a march hair, my mother and father just dared me to date him and any time I dated him I had to slip around to date him. He was like a big brother to me he was the best protection I ever had in my life. If a boy wasen't very nice to girls and was going to ask me for a date he would say to me Juanita so and so is going to ask you for a date and you are not dateing him, don't even think about it. He realized I was a good nieve kid and he protected me, and if he told me not to go out with somebody. I didn't go out with them eather. The freshest ones that I ever went out with were the ones that mama and papa picked out for me to date. Then when I wouldn't go out with them any more mama would fuss at me cause she liked their parents. I never had any music talent. The first job I got was after all my kids were born when we lived in Utah. I went to work in a meat packing plant. They were begging people to come out and work in the plant because all their people had gone off to War. They put me up to boneing beef and heck I wasen't big enough to bone beef. They had all these big dutch girls up there that could carry a half a cow and take a butcher knife and whack them all to pieces. I was a little bity thing about 104 lbs. and they had me up there boneing that beef . I was fixing to ask them if they had a job where I was better qualified . They sent me word to come down to the gate, to talk to the Union man I had worked there 2 weeks. The Union man informed me that I was going to have to join the Union and it was going to take the biggest majority of my pay for about 6 weeks to pay the Union dues. So I just agreed with him on everything and I had to go out the next day and pick up my check. One of the girls said well after we go down to the office and pick up our checks lets go down to the Cival Service Office and see about going to work out at second street. Heck I didn't even know what second street was but I was game because I knew that I wasen't going to join the Union. I wasen't about to work for 6 weeks and pay them almost all the money that I was making just to work there. So I went down to the Cival Service Office and went right to work at second street. Second street was the army supply depot so that was the second job I had. The next job I had was at Grant's a dime store in Corpus Christi, Texas during the war, then I went to work at the Navel Air Station until Walter came back from Hawaii. He went back to Utah and I went back up there with him and I went back to work at the Army Supply Station again. Back when I was a teenager I didn't attend church regularly but when I did go I went to the Church of Christ. But then during the summer was when I would go to the Holey Roller Revivals. I didn't belong to any youth church groups. The Church of Christ didn't have any youth orginizations you went to church and sunday school and that was it. and they didn't call it sunday school they called it bible school. During the years of 13 to 19 people didn't do very much because they didn't have the money to do. It was during the depression. We had dances and party's at home and went to church. Hoover was president and then Roosevelt came in during the depression. I was nineteen when I first got married. I had a girl friend in Wilson by the name of Mildred Womack. and she was dateing Doris Worsham my step cousin and I was dateing Dinnis Kembril who was the one that played the Violin. So I made for the two of us to go to a dance one night and I was spending the weekend with her . Well she made a date with Walter and his friend for saturday night too . So we had two dates but we went with Dennis and Doris and left Walter and his friend sitting there and that was the first time I ever saw them and I didn't care to much for them. Later on we went to a street dance in Wilson and I met Walter again and that is when I started dateing him several years later. Walter was a well dressed, clean and neat young man and he was a good dancer and he was real nice to me and that was what attracted me to him. he started comeing to the house and he practilly lived at our house until we married . We were sitting out side under a great big tree when he asked me to marry him. he didn't have any money and I didn't have any money so we didn't go any where. We dated several months before we were married, and never had any arguments until after we were married, he said that I could finish school after we got married and finish high school then after we got married every time I went to school he would just blow his stack, so I had to quit then. After we were married we lived in the garauge apartment beside his mother mama Allred's house. Mama Allred was gone to see her family when Walter and I got married. We got married in Wilson by the justice of the Peace at his house and Bill and Jewel Neal, were our best man and woman. Walter had run around with them for years. Mildred Womack and her mother and J.D. were there. There were a hole lot of people that were there that night but my parents were not there and I don't remember why they just weren't. Then we went back over to Mildreds and had a party over there and all the friends came over there. Then Walter took me to his parents house mama and papa Allred. and told them that we were married and we spent the first night in the garauge apartment. I had spent a weekend at their house before Walter and I were married. So I had already met them before this. Papa was there and when mama Allred came in from visiting her folks and we told her she informed me that mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws weren't supposed to like each other and she wasen't going to make any effort to like me. She didn't lie about that eather. Mama Allred was always a nosey bussy body Continued on Edgar Carriker Space # 21 3945 ki Ogden, Utah April 30, 1943 Dear Folks: The snow is practically all gone from the mountains but we still have to wear our coats early of the morning and late at night. The Mountains are beautiful now. Everything is so green. My violets and pansies are in full bloom and so pretty. Mrs. Allred I'm going to send some Gladolis bulbs in and I want you to plant them when I come back then you can divide them with me. I may send several things in soon. Mrs Loaper (Grandma) and I went to the hollows yesterday and gathered watercres for supper last night. Walter LaVon didn't have the measels just the flu. He was pretty sick. He isnt going to make his grade this year. He has been sick so much & that trip back there caused him to loose interest. The teacher sent a note to me to come to school, and she wanted to know if I wanted her to go ahead and pass him anyway & I told her no if he didn't know his grade, then I sertainly didn't want him passed. She said she thought he would have been better off if I hadn't started him until next year, because of his nerves. When school is out I'm going to have the sist taken out of his ear. They have sen't him home from school several times over it. It may be what is causing his trouble. I have got to take Joyce & have a piece of pincil lead taken from her lower eye lid. She was playing at school & a boy stuck a pincil in it & we didn't know the lead was there until it got well. Cathey is going to town with me to-day she is so thrilled until its pitiful. She got up before her daddy went to work & wanted her hair fixed. A kid knocked her in the head with a skilet, the other day and just laid her out. Jerry Gail is so fat I can hardley lift her & just as mean. ?She isn't afraid of anything. She will just walk up & pick up anuy of the chickens & them picking her toes. I went to town the other day & when I came in Von had locked her in the rabbit pin and gone off and left her. When I walked out she had a rabbit in her arm & she said "mama I'm a monkey." Well they sure have some pretty spring clothes but so far I havent gotten myself a thing since I quit work. Walter is back home and once more turning the check to me so maby I can start saving again. Unless they get the Navy hospital for Brigam City I think we will be home by the last of July or maby before. Mrs. Allred Walter says Oregon looks like the Country between here & Cheyenne. Gee! wouldn't you hate to live there? I met a little girl from Oklahoma City not long ago she was so homesick. I sure felt sorry for her.] Believe me there is sure going to be a back to the farme movement when this war is over. Everyone you talk to is trying to get enough to gether to buy a farm. But if living cost keeps going up they won't have anything. I went to the store last week and do you know lettuce was 23 cents per head cabbage 12 cens per lb. , sweetpotatoes 19 cents per lb. , Cauliflower 23 cents per lb. , 10 lb. irish potatoes 59 cents , caned corn has gone up about 7 cents on the can & all other can goods about the same. I go to town & get $ 15 worth of groceries & can bring them home in a shoe box. It is really disgusting. I wish we could just turn animals for the duration . I know where there is some pretty high grass. Do you ever see Bill & Jewell? (Neal) Walter & I have both written to them but no answer. My strawberries are blooming & my sswisschard is Urginough? to eat. Im sending you $17.50 for the quilts. I believe that is what it came too if it isn't enough let me know & I will send you the remainder. Well I must close & write to Mildred. Love Jaunita NARA official member CHARTER National Alpha Research Assn. Houston Chapter This is to certify that Juanita Clark is a member in good standing 30101970 to 8-31-1970 No 1109 by Roy K. Groves Obituary Heldton Herold, OK 2-20-2003 JAUNITY ALLRED CLARK Jaunita (Carriker) Allred Clark will be aid to rest at Forest Park Cemetery at 3:30 p.m. Friday, February 21, in Houston, Texas Jaunity was born September 5, 1914, in Love County, to Thomas Arthur Carriker and I.D. Fish. She died February 17, 2003, at paris, Tennessee. She attended school at Zaneis. She was united in marriage with her first husband, Walter sylvester Allred in Wilson, son of Harvey and Beedie Hancock Allred. of this union, four children were born, Joyce LaDean Brereton, wife of Stanley E. Brereton, of Springville, Utah, Walter LaVon Allred of Wilson, Marjorie Kathleen Buss, wife of Gene Buss of Wilson, Jerry Gale mcVarland of Paris Tennessee. Jaunita then married Ross Edward Clark of Mansfield, Illinois, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Ross had a daughter, Candia Clark of Berlin, Germany. She had one sister living Junie Jo Ware of Rosharon, Texas; two sisters-in-law, Opal (Allred) Boyd of Oklahoma City, and Isabel Ober of Illinois; and one brother-in-law, Montie Allred of Wilson. Jaunita was a great mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was loved by all who met her. She was very talented, especially in Arts and Crafts. She could cut her own patterns. She had a talent for beautiful hand work. She at one time owned her own drapery shop called the "Cinderella Shop" in Corpus Christi, Texas. She was a seamstress. She has owned a dress shop, a furniture store, and when she died owned Rossco/South Texas Supply. She worked in Sales and was an excellant sales person. She worked well with the public. Jaunita for years was in the apartment management business, working with her best friend, Ella McRay, in Houston, Texas She loved to entertain and had a party New Years Day every year. She was not just a mother but a friend. She spent many hours with her children and their friends. She will be missed by her family. She had a stroke and then lost her voice but could still understand all that was going on around her. She had five children, 19 grandchildren, 55 great-grandchildren, six great-great- grandchildren. Some of her grandchildren called her GG, which her great-grand-daughter Magn named her. She loved to visit with her family and family meant more than anything to her. She wouldn't buy anything for herself, just so she could save moneuy to leave her children, so they would not have to worry and have hard times as she did in her lifetime. Jaunita worked hard to raise her children until Ross (Papa) we called him came along and became a good husband as well as a wonderful father for her children. Her friends all called them Papa and Mama and they were family to many people.


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