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Tagged with "Denton County History"

  • 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…
  • For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His experiences and observations concerning rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1900-1987. Breaking mules; rural school; sheep and goat raising; hog killing; charcoal making.
  • For the UNT African American Remembrance Oral History Project. Long-time Denton resident. Childhood in Denton; involvement in various activities, including the Senior Center and church; history of Quakertown; Denton during segregation; the Denton…
  • For the Denton County Historical Commission. Ancestry of the Williams family, Denton County history. 

  • Farmer-rancher, Robstown, Texas. Family background; farming and social activities near Hillje, Texas; comments on preserving meat; description of family farm auction, 1924; employment as cottonseed culler operator, Robstown, 1925; establishment of…