So I'm going to press record now
Have to what I would like to do. I think that
means my battery is not working. Oh well
anyway, I'm here with Luther Pierce on the 13th of
Friday the 13th, that's no good gonna walk
lightly today
So yeah, what I'd like to do is just have you
tell us everything you remember about the old days
I know you're you're got a great memory
So your mama was Edna Pierce
Used to be used to be Patterson, right?
See that thing is born 1906
1906 I think that here that thing blinking
means that the battery is going to give out on
me and I got some more but
I don't know if they're any better. We'll see
as long as it keeps working
How was she she married your daddy Litton
Litton. How old was she when she married him?
16 he was eight
Did and I read in this thing here that
Her daddy maybe wasn't too happy about her
getting married that young. He wasn't and Mama
told me they spent their
honeymoon night in a tent
down there on Barton Creek Huh?
but uh My
Mama's daddy's name was Pape Pape Patterson on TV
Yeah, and I don't know how he come up with all
that land, but you know
He had right at a thousand acres there
Was like a mile and a half frontage on Barton Creek
Did he run did he run stock or something like
that? I don't know
Did they farm a little corn?
Maybe a little by the house just to eat. Uh-huh
because most of this was
Wasn't farmland. It was hills and cedar brush
was so so they probably cut stove wood for
living back then
Those little valleys there did they have some
little valleys if you could farm along Barton
Creek there
Thank you a little flatter if it didn't uh-huh
get too high, you know and wash it. Oh, yeah
I'm gonna change these batteries out because
this thing keeps blinking at me
I got a bunch here. I just