Steve Renner | Oral History

Steve Renner

OH 1455

For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His description of buildings and families during a driving tour of Denton County, Texas.

OH 1461

For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her reminiscences about rural life in northern Denton County and southern Cooke County, Texas, 1910-1987; her ancestors’ role in the founding of Valley View, Texas; evolution of the family farm; canning and food preservation; rural social activities; lightning storms and tornadoes; traveling peddlers; crops; doctors and folk remedies.

OH 1439

Miscellaneous reminiscences about rural life, agriculture, neighbors, and homesteads in Denton County, Texas, 1900-1987. Marketing of crops; a walking tour of the old Jones Farm with descriptions of buildings, windmills, pastures, and crops; a driving tour of rural schools, cemeteries, and neighbors’ properties; descriptive tours through the Bloomfield and Fairview communities.

OH 1438

For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. Miscellaneous reminiscences about rural life, agriculture, neighbors, and homesteads in Denton County, Texas, 1900-1987.

OH 1458

For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. His description of farm property during a driving tour of Denton County, Texas, 1987. Comments about buildings; identification of various landowners and their holdings; description of Vaughn Town.

OH 1447

Her comments about the history of Denton County, Texas, 1900-1987. Early history of her descendents, the Sullivan family, 1856-1900; cattle raising and marketing; comments about the oil industry.

OH 1448

For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her personal reminiscences about rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1925-1985. Her father’s sawmill operation; creek flooding; threshing operations; changes in land ownership; her husband’s death; effects of the Great Depression; social life; comments about the county’s longtime residents; recreational activities; epidemics; wildlife problems; the tornado of June 8, 1937; comments about her childhood; homemade clothing

OH 1435

For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her reminiscences of life on the Scott Jacobs Farm, Denton County, Texas, 1920-87. The purchase of the land by her grandfather, Clint Jacobs; her identification of implements and outbuildings found on the farm; oil income and farm improvements during the 1920s and 1930s; rural entertainment and leisure activities; crops and planting; food preservation; in-town shopping; making homebrew and bootlegging activities; schools and churches; cemeteries; epidemics; folk medicines and remedies.