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NOTES 1. SYMBOLS OF THE MYTHIC AMERICAN WEST Portions of this chapter were previously published in Raymond E. White, "Roy Rogers and Dale Evans: King and Queen of the West," in The Hollywood West: Lives of Film Legends Who Shaped It, ed. Richard Etulain and Glenda Riley (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2001), 20-43, and "Roy Rogers: An American Icon," in Back in the Saddle: An American Icon, ed. Gary Yoggy (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998),77-95. 1. The Bibliographical Essay in this volume indicates the scope of the image and influence of Rogers and Evans. 2. Genealogical records establish the Sly family (Leonard's family added the e to their name sometime after his birth) in Virginia as early as the 1780s. Federal census records reveal that Leonard Slye's great-great-grandfather, Jonathan Sly, was born in Virginia in 1789. As a young man Jonathan moved to Jefferson County, Mississippi, and married Mary Cox; the couple had at least five children, the third being Termarchus (Tully) Cicero Sly, Leonard's great-grandfather. By 1840, Jonathan Sly and his family were in Mason County, Virginia (now West Virginia), on the Ohio River, and within another ten years, they had moved downriver to Scioto County, Ohio. Tully met and married an Ohio woman, Cynthia Sharp; their second son, Alonzo, born in 1855, was Leonard Slye's grandfather. Alonzo married Mary Wessel in 1875, and together they had five sons; their second, Andrew, born in 1882, was Leonard Slye's father. Andrew married Mattie Womack, a Kentucky resident. Researcher Charles William Barnett, Muncie, Indiana, researched the Sly family history. In that effort he consulted: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Manuscript Population Schedules for 1790-1910; Marriage Records, Scioto County, Ohio, Court House, Portsmouth, Ohio; R. L. Polk, Portsmouth City Directory, 1908-9, 1910-11,1914-15; Norman E. Gillis, Early Inhabitants ofthe Natchez District, from the original rolls on file in the Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi (n.p.: Irene and Norman Gillis, 1%3). James W Slye, Rockbridge, Ohio, has prepared the most complete genealogical record to date of the Slye family; a copy is filed in the local history room of the Portsmouth Public Library. 3. According to Evans, the birth certificate not only listed her name wrong but also gave October 30 as her birth date; from childhood Evans had celebrated her birthday on October 31. For Evans's comments on the birth date and name mix-up, see Double R Bar Ranch News, March- April 1954, 5; Dale Evans Rogers, Woman at the Well (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1970), 15-16. Evans's father was a native of Mississippi, growing up in the town of Centerville, Wilkinson County. Her grandfather William H. Smith owned a mercantile store in that small community as well as Oleo Plantation. She says that her great-grandfather was Joseph Smith, who also lived in Mississippi. It is not certain when her father moved to Texas. Her mother's parents were ranchers in the Uvalde, Texas, area. 485 Copyrighted Material 486 Notes to Pages 5-9 4. A puzzling piece of information on Frances Fox rums up in the federal census of 1930. The enumerator lists Frances and Tommy Fox as living in Memphis in April of 1930. The entry shows only their names, which have been scratched thtough. The curious thing is that the enumerator made his entry six months after Frances and Tommy's divorce was final. U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1930, manuscript population schedule, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, ED 79-71, District 71, Sheet 13 B, 275. 5. Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 17,1930,9. 6. 6 Dale Evans, interview by Ronald L. Davis, April 25, 1982, transcript 247, 3-4, Oral History Collection on the Performing Arts, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University (hereafter cited as SMU: Dale Evans); Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, with Carlton Stowers, Happy Trails: The Story ofRoy Rogers and Dale Evans (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1979),95 (hereafter cited as Happy Trails); Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, with Jane and Michael Stern, Happy Trails: Our Life Story (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), 42-48 (hereafter cited as Our Life Story). For information and program notes on Evans's early radio appearances see Memphis Commercial Appeal, October 1929-March 1930. 7. U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1930, manuscript popularion schedule, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, ED 31-121, Sheet 13A, 206A. The enumerator lists both Roy and Andrew...