Interviews with Lotta Evers Callahan (b.1910), Jessie Evers King, Bob Evers Tripp, Felix Callahan (b. 1907), Wilford Pierce (b. 1909), Verna Solomon, and Walter Laney (b. 1918). CALLAHAN, Lotta Evers. Daughter of Will Evers. Family background; Robert and Adolph Evers’s purchase of hardware store, Denton, Texas, 1885; store ownership passed to sons Will and Dolph Evers, Jr.; description of Denton, early 1900s; sale of buggies and tractors; Will Evers’ civic activities; typical work day at hardware store; comments on personnel of store; experiences during Depression. KING, Jessie Evers. Daughter of Will Evers. Family background; comments on Robert and Adolph Evers; activities of father and uncle, Dolph; division of Evers estate; description of Evers house on Oak Street, Denton; description of store fire; comments on father’s pecan orchard and fruit trees. TRIPP, Bob Evers. Grandson of Robert Evers and operator, Evers Hardware. Family background; Robert and Adolph Evers’s purchase of hardware store; comments on sale of barbed wire as reason for early success; involvement of Evers family as founders of Denton Water, Light and Power Company, 1892; Adolph Evers’s purchase of farm land; comments on managing credit operations; Evers family’s contributions to Denton; activities of tin and plumbing shops; history of Evers Hardware building; comments on financing and future of business. CALLAHAN, Felix. Son-in-law of Will Evers, executor of Dolph Evers’s estate. Family background; description of early years of Evers Hardware business in Denton; comments on Will Evers’s development of farm land for pecan trees; description of work on farm; development of machines to harvest, weigh, size, and separate pecans; comments on Dolph Evers’s inventions; comments on Evers family’s civic activities; sale of farm implements at hardware store; division of Evers estate. PIERCE, Wilford. Employee, Evers Hardware. Family background; business practices of Robert and Will Evers; personnel practices of Evers Hardware; comments on Dolph Evers’s inventions and the Evers plumbing shop business; description of materials sold in hardware store; discussion of credit business; experiences with customers. SOLOMON, Verna. Employee, Evers Hardware. Experiences working in Evers store, 1940s; impressions of Will Evers; experiences working as exclusive dealership for Hoover appliances; descriptions of merchandise; duties of head salesperson; comments on employees of store; description of business fire, 1972. LANEY, Walter. Employee, Evers Hardware. Family background; employment in Evers plumbing shop; descriptions of Will, Marion, and Dolph Evers’s activities; comments on employees; description of merchandise; description of business fire, 1972.