The family saga : a collection of Texas family legends /
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| Imprint: | Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2003. |
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| Description: | xiv, 366 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 60 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5163597 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface / F. E. Abernethy
- Introduction / F. E. Abernethy
- The Family Saga as a Form of Folklore / Mody C. Boatright
- 1. From the Old Sod to the New World
- 1. William and Cindrilla / Hazel Shelton Abernethy
- 2. Ben James Comes to America / Mary M. Aikman
- 3. Sailing in a Little Boat / Laurette Davis McCommas
- 4. The Voyage Over / Martha Baxley
- 5. Our Lost Grandfather / Frances B. Vick
- 6. Coming to the Colonies in a Press Gang / Jean G. Schnitz
- 7. Gussie Gets Her Man / Laurette Davis McCommas
- 8. "Made in America" / Elaine Brown Ascher
- 9. The Bonfire of Home / Joanna Hurley
- 10. My Frugal Dad / Henry Wolff, Jr.
- 11. The Stanglin Family / Carol Hanson
- 12. Illegal Entry / Lucy Fischer West
- 2. Gone to Texas
- 1. A Delicate Condition / Elaine Scherer Snider
- 2. Captain Jack Nash / Carole Hensley Bergfeld
- 3. The Legend of Billy Hicks / Dorothy Kennedy Lewis
- 4. The Bear at the Spring / Patsy Johnson Hallman
- 5. The Rawhide Fight Brought Us to Texas / Frances B. Vick
- 6. The Fergusons Travel to Texas / Mary Ann Long Ferguson, Odessa Hicks Dial and Alice Dial Boney
- 7. Brothers / Patrick Mullen
- 8. The Red River Crossing / Jean G. Schnitz
- 9. Tennessee to Texas / Barbara Pybas
- 10. Looking for Land / Henry Wolff, Jr.
- 11. C. A. Lee Escapes to Texas / Jean G. Schnitz
- 12. Gone to Texas, 1940! / Marilyn Colegrove Manning
- 3. The Civil War
- 1. Granma and General Sherman / John O. West
- 2. James Ware's Hanging / Gloria Counts
- 3. A Woman's Strong Love / Dianna Shull
- 4. Swimming the Swollen Stream / Lottie Guttry
- 5. My Grandmother's Trip / Louise Martin
- 6. Uncle Levi / Patsy Johnson Hallman
- 7. Letters from Ezekiel Cobb / Ezekiel Cobb
- 8. An Old Tintype and A Faded Journal / Eleanor Monroe
- 9. Ephriam Dial in the Civil War / Frances B. Vick and Andrew Brannen
- 10. The Civil War and the Scudder Family / Jean G. Schnitz
- 11. The Last Ham / Barbara Pybas
- 12. Civil War Casualty / Eleanor Monroe
- 13. The Aftermath of the Civil War / Mary Ann Long Ferguson and Odessa Hicks Dial
- 4. Indians
- 1. Josephus and Frank Browning / Karen McDonald
- 2. Lye Soap / Elizabeth Stanley Pope and Janet Jeffery
- 3. A Night to Remember / Eleanor Monroe
- 4. Another Indian Story / Myrtle Oldham Ham and Jo Ellen Ham Miller
- 5. Experiences of Calvin and Nancy Fisher / Grace Fisher Porch
- 6. A. J. Walker and the Indians / Frances B. Vick and Andrew Brannen
- 7. A Fat Man's Misery / Jean G. Schnitz
- 8. Gramma Garrett / Lucille Harris
- 9. She Put it in Writing / Jennifer Curtis
- 10. A Renegade Rifle / Austin T. King
- 11. A Tale Grandpa Told about Indians / Ernest B. Speck
- 5. Animals, Wild and Domestic
- 1. Bears and Wild Beasts / Myrtle Oldham Ham and Jo Ellen Ham Miller
- 2. Thomas and the Rattlesnake / Waun Harrison
- 3. Papa John and the Bull / Sue Wenner
- 4. Do Unto Others ... / Lillian Ellisene Rumage Davis
- 5. Catching Wild Mustangs / Frances B. Vick and Andrew Brannen
- 6. A Snake Story from the 1930s / Barbara Pybas
- 7. The Bear Knife / Florena Williams
- 8. Hog Stories from the Davis Family / Kenneth W. Davis
- 9. Susannah and Her Angora Goats / Lora B. Garrison
- 10. Wild Goose / Palmer Henry Olsen
- 11. The Goat on the Courthouse Square / Mildred Boren Sentell
- 12. Wagon Yard Trades / Ross Estes / Edited by Robert J. Duncan
- 13. Big Boy Whatley: Horse Trader / Elmer Kelton
- 14. Cookin' a Possum / James Ward Lee
- 15. Hog Drovers / Lora B. Garrison
- 16. Grandma Anderson and the Milk Cow / Al Lowman
- 6. The Church, Preachers, and Religion
- 1. The Church at Piney / Estella Wright Szegedin
- 2. Ice / Thad Sitton
- 3. Grandpa and the Preachin' House / Ruth Garrison Scurlock
- 4. Ferguson's Boys / Mary Ann Long Ferguson, Odessa Hicks Dial and Alice Dial Boney
- 5. Watt Moorman and the Methodist / John F. Short
- 6. Father Parisot's Saddle / Gwendolyn Wingate
- 7. Aunt Ocie's Church Story / Patrick Mullen
- 8. Country Preacher / Georgeanne Hitzfeld
- 9. Redemption and Fried Chicken / Georgeanne Hitzfeld
- 10. Pa Gunn's Conversion Experience / Sarah Zoda
- 7. Ghosts and the Supernatural
- 1. The Pennington Ghost / John Artie McCall
- 2. Restless Spirits / Elaine Scherer Snider
- 3. Brother Murder / Timothy Lee Jones
- 4. Uncle Fate's Jealous Wives / Lee Winniford
- 5. Tales from Mr. Hatcher / Patsy Johnson Hallman
- 6. Death Omen / Donna McFadden
- 7. Grandfather's Ghost / Gail Simon
- 8. Return from Death / Carole Bruce
- 9. The Legend of a Dream / Cynthia Lowry
- 10. The Ghost of Ghosty Brnach / Andrew Brannen and Frances B. Vick
- 11. Mystic Magnolia / Herb Sanders
- 12. Crazy Women in the Rafters / Paul Patterson
- 8. Feuding and Fighting
- 1. The Mitchell-Coker Feud / Dorothy Kennedy Lewis
- 2. Dutch Joe and the Wolf's Tail / Gwendolyn Wingate
- 3. Jones-Smith Feud / Patsy Johnson Hallman
- 4. The Sullivan Family Feud / Mary Means Sullivan
- 5. A Neighborly Dispute / Jo Wilkinson Lyday
- 6. Aunt Elm at the Courthouse / Callie Coe Wilson
- 7. Legends of the Regulator-Moderator War in Shelby County, Texas / John F. Short
- 8. Legend of a Ranger / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell
- 9. Grandad McCall and the Outlaw / John Artie McCall
- 10. The Bedsprings Feud / Martha Baxley
- 11. Feuding Aunts / Jean G. Schnitz
- 9. Hard Times
- 1. Blowing Away in the Panhandle / F. E. Abernethy
- 2. Uncle Lyndon Hartman / Carl Hartman and Joyce Raoch
- 3. Claude Rumage / Lillian Ellisene Rumage Davis
- 4. Getting Gold for the Hard Times / Lee Winniford
- 5. Sharecroppin' / Annie Mae Stamey Rushing and Rhett Rushing
- 6. The Sharecropper's Cow / Barbara Pybas
- 7. Stolen Corn / Jean G. Schnitz
- 8. A Dollar A Day / Henry Wolff, Jr.
- 9. Hard Times and Low Pay / Carl Halsell and Lou Rodenberger
- 10. Possum and Sweet 'Taters / "Wildwood" Dean Price
- 10. A Brush with History
- 1. Santa Anna's "Suicide" / Tom Davison
- 2. Galveston Storm / Nancy Carr
- 3. Hanging Bill Longley / Jane Barnhart Burrows
- 4. Gideon Lincecum and Choctaw Chief Pushmataha / Jerry Bryan Lincecum
- 5. Davy Crockett / Jeanne Blackstone Almany
- 6. The Mayor and President Roosevelt / Jean G. Schnitz
- 7. Forever Ford / Laurette Davis McCommas
- 8. Grandma Walker and John Wesley Hardin / Frances B. Vick
- 9. Dor! / Kenneth W. Davis
- 10. Sousa and Mr. Sam / Silva Boze Brown
- 11. Passing up a Brush with Fame / Florena Williams
- 12. Bonnie and Clyde / Faye Leeper
- 13. Villa Raid / Jesse Thompson and Austin T. King
- 14. Meeting Prince Charles / Laurette Davis McCommas
- 11. The Wars
- 1. Son of the American Revolution / Gideon Lincecum / Edited by Jerry Bryan Lincecum
- 2. Isom Parmer, Saracen, and the Battle of San Jacinto / Frances B. Vick
- 3. C. A. Lee: What Side Was He On? / Jean G. Schnitz
- 4. Soldier Boy / Laurette Davis McCommas
- 5. Daddy's World War I Story / Frances B. Vick
- 6. A Heroic Veteran of Foreign Wars / Marlene Rushing
- 7. When the Telegram Came / Frances B. Vick
- 8. My Longest Day / J. Willis Hastings
- 9. My WWII Bride / Elmer Kelton
- 10. My Sister Joins the Marines / Martha Baxley
- 11. The Rain in Korea is Awful Cold and Wet / James Ward Lee
- 12. A Light in the Darkness / Robert Flynn
- 12. The Cycle of Life
- 1. Herschel and Leo / Frances B. Vick
- 2. Voodoo Child / Marlene Rushing
- 3. Almost a Bastard / Barbara Pybas
- 4. Jane Holder / Artiemesia Lucille Brison Spencer
- 5. Susannah and Alex Auld / Lora B.
- Garrison
- 6. Aunt Rosa's "Sweetheart Story," / Gwen Choate
- 7. The Outhouse Letters / Sandra Brownlow
- 8. How My Grandparents Met / Carol Hanson
- 9. Masculine Modesty / Lee Winniford
- 10. The Locket / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell
- 11. Thanks to a Psychic in Shanghai / Lucy Fischer West
- 12. Always Hopeful / Sheila J. Spiess
- 13. Pap Paschall and Burial by Sewing Machine / Patsy Johnson Hallman
- 14. Shrouds from Sheets / Mary Ann Long Ferguson, Odessa Hicks Dial and Alice Dial Boney
- 15. Rushed Burial / Lee Winniford
- 16. Allen's Last Roundup / Sloan Matthews and Tom Matthews
- 17. Arthur Scudder and the Green Pecans / Jean G. Schnitz
- 18. John Doe / Jo Ellen Ham Miller
- 19. John and Lizzie Ross / Carol Hanson
- 20. The Last Poker Game / Thomas P. Carolan
- 13. Family Matters
- 1. Aunt Mary / Lou Rodenberger
- 2. A Calf for a Candy Stick / Lora B. Garrison
- 3. Almost a Catastrophe / Frances B. Vick
- 4. The Hanged Cousin in Greer County / Martha Cavness
- 5. The Best Christmas Ever / Al Lowman
- 6. A Tough Old Woman and Her Colt / Elaine Scherer Snider
- 7. The Day Grandpa Peterson Jumped into the Well / Gwen Choate
- 8. Cured with a Hot Iron / Ernest B. Speck
- 9. Dad's New Pickup / Mildred Boren Sentell
- 10. Lev and Hy Ainsworth / Jim H. Ainsworth
- 11. Patch / Jim Vause
- 12. Blue Eyes / Tom Chesnut
- 13. Uncle Henry / Edward R. Raasch
- 14. Carol / Patrick Mullen
- 15. Daddy Was Our Black Sheep / Martha Baxley
- 16. "Oh, Molly Hair!" / Margaret A. Cox
- 17. Uncle George and the Family Whipping / Archie P. McDonald
- 14. Family Characters: Heroes, Black Sheep, and Eccentrics
- 1. Cousin Ad and Cousin Net / Follis Bennett and Patsy Johnson Hallman
- 2. Gus Hooks of the Big Thicket / Callie Coe Wilson and Ellen Walker Rienstra
- 3. Gideon Lincecum's Christmas Ritual / Gideon Lincecum / Edited by Jerry Bryan Lincecum
- 4. Mariner Wilcox and the Fabulous Fib / Sybil F. Crawford
- 5. William Fletcher Crowell / Donna McFadden
- 6. Grannie's Old Pickup Truck / Lora B. Garrison
- 7. Cut Off at the Knees / Robert Bethea
- 8. My Ancestor Was Hanged When he Was 14 Years Old / Mary Joe Clendenin
- 9. Patman Takes in Washing / Patsy Johnson Hallman
- 10. Martin Parmer - The Ringtailed Panther / Frances B. Vick
- 11. The Blackburns / Virginia Alexander
- 12. Meeting Grandpa Owens / June Welch
- 13. Uncle Mule! / John Graves
- 14. The Shootout at Sunset / June Welch
- 15. Miscellaneous
- 1. Naming the Town of Rockne / Patrick B. Vick
- 2. Whizzerville! / Lou Rodenberger
- 3. E-Heart - [actual symbol not reproducible] / Frances B. Vick
- 4. Family Folklore: Names / Jerry Bryan Lincecum
- 5. A Cure for Free / Eleanor Monroe
- 6. Vigilante Raid / Jean G. Schnitz
- 7. From Hogtown to Seymour / Jean G. Schnitz
- 8. Grinding the Cornmeal / Barbara Pybas
- 9. Grandmother Perkins: Healer / Kenneth W. Davis.