Bootlegger's Other Daughter

Index

index Arbala, community of, 5–18, 42, 54, 55, 60, 61, 163 Arizona, Daddy’s brief stay in, 109–13, 117 automobile, first sighting of, 42 bartering, 30–33 “Bear Tracks” (county sheriff), 36–39 benefactor, “Uncle Milty” Cates, 49, 134, 158, 160 Birch Creek Bottom, 10–12, 81, 82 blacksmith shop, 22 boiled custard, 13 Bonanza, community of, 46, 48–50 bootlegging, 35–39 building the new house, 64–68 Carnation Milk Plant, 110 Cemetery Day, 88–91 church: Arbala Community, 8–10; Seymore Community, 22 cigarettes, rolling your own, 9–10 cotton: ginning, 80, 81; picking, 79, 80 Cotton Stamps, 92–95 Dallas Farmers Market, 148, 167 Depression, Great, 5, 19, 20–119 East Texas State Teachers College, 53, 134, 135, 165 Edward VII, 3 electricity, 114–16 grandparents: maternal, 46–51; paternal , 5–9, 40–50 graveyard working. See Cemetery Day Gray, Thomas, 3 hitchhiking, 132 Hitler, Adolph, 5 hog-killing day, 24–26 home remedies, 104–108 homecoming. See Cemetery Day honey, harvesting, 15 Hoover, Herbert, 5 Hopkins County Stew, 27, 76 Johnson’s Ice Cream Parlour, 96, 109 Kaiser, Wilhelm II, 3 Kerosene, 65; cookstove, 65; lamps, 15, 35, 36, 114, 115 Ku Klux Klan, 103 Lenin, Nicolai, 3 Mother’s Day, 7, 8 “Old Age Pension,” 45 Old Settler’s Reunion, 86–88 patent medicines, 107; Black Draught, 12, 107 peddler. See Watkins man politics: elected county officials, 98; Jim Hogg, 101; John Nance Garner, 101; Ma and Pa Ferguson, 100; Sam Rayburn, 101, 102; W. Lee (Pappy) O’Daniel, 101; “Yellow-Dog” Democrats, 98 poll tax, 99 Prohibition, 99 racism, 102, 103 radio, 116, 120, 121 railroading in Sweetwater, 55–60 REA. See electricity “Relief,” 109 religious revival meetings, 82–86 Repeal, consequences of, 99 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 5, 92, 93, 101, 115; New Deal, 36, 92; cotton stamps, 92–95; REA, 114–16 Roosevelt, Theodore, 3 Rural Electric Administration (REA). See electricity school: “big room,” 24, 124–27; closing ceremonies, 75–77; first teacher, 74, 75; first visit, 23, 24; high school, 144–48; “little room,” 24, 72–79 Seymore (East Texas) community, 20– 34, 64–68, 72–86, 118 Shivarees, 60, 61 snow ice cream, 22 I ndex 170 snuff, family use of, 8 song titles and/or short excerpts from: “Dapple Gray,” 18; “I Love To Tell The Story,” 85; “Poor Babes In The Woods,” 18; “Pretty Red Wing,” 68; “Put Your Little Foot,” 68, 77; “Softly And Tenderly, Jesus is . . . ,” 84; “Where He Leads Me . . . ,” 85 strawberry picking, 82 Sweetwater, Texas, 55–61 syrup making, 30, 31, 32 Tennessee, Gammill exodus, 40, 41 Texas State College For Women, 159– 62 tobacco, smoking, 9 typhoid fever, 28–30 wagon shed, as a dwelling, 64–68 wash pot, various uses, 27, 28 Watkins man (peddler), 32–34 Women’s Suffrage, 99 wood cutting, 31,32 World War I, 57 World War II: convoys of U.S. soldiers, 122; defense work, 123; draft, 123– 24; glamour of war, 124; military service, 123, 124; Pearl Harbor, 120; radio commentators, 121; radio for our schoolroom, 127; rationing, 128–33; “Stars and Stripes,” 121; travel bureau, 131; war bond rallies, 122 ...