----- Original Message ----- From: "terry" <ttphotoinc@comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 6:13 PM
Subject: Peach orchard...

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Adrienne, do you think the little house by the peach orchard could have been were Raymond and Family lived.
Delma was asking about where they stayed at the ranch. I think they lived in Grandma's house or that little house.
I can remember playing over there while they were adding a room to her house.
I remember an elderly couple (who's name was Sivils?) who lived in the little house. The man had some kind of medical condition which required burning sulfur in the house. He burned it in a soda-pop bottle cap. Do you remember that?

Terry

From: ajandbtay@yucca.net
Subject: Re: Peach orchard...
Date: November 9, 2008 10:48:21 AM MST
To: ttphotoinc@comcast.net

Raymond & Bolly both worked for our Dad on the ranch before either of them were married. Looks like on Raymond & Minnie's cemetery stone they married on Aug. 16, 1930. Our Dad & Mom married Jan. 7, 1932. At different times different ones of our relatives came to live with Grandma at her place. I can't remember Raymond & Minnie ever living with her but then I wasn't born until 1934. In my baby photos it seems like Uncle George's family were photographed with ours at the ranch a lot. Uncle George had his own ranch which joined ours as did Grandma's ranch so I guess they were all together much of the time. Ben said that Raymond was in a welding class with his brother, Lawrence, in about 1942/43. Lawrence was in Jr. High at the time. It was a government funded night class that was held at the Dexter, NM High School. A group of men rode together in a pickup truck, from Roswell to Dexter, (about 15 miles), to the class and Lawrence remembered Raymond Turner as being in their group.

I do remember the elderly couple named Sivils. They were hired to help care for Grandma & do chores around her place. I don't remember us ever being around them or visiting with them. He seemed ill and had a "coughing & breathing" problem. I don't remember anything about the sulfur or him burning it in a soda-pop bottle cap??? The only rooms I remember in Grandma's house were the entrance, the living room, where she always sat in the rocking chair with her Bible, her tiny kitchen with the "window" where the milk was kept cool, and her bedroom with the big feather bed. Aunt Lizzie showed me how to use the broom to puff up the feathers by beating all over the top of the feather mattress until the top was even and fluffed up. Aunt Lizzie lived with Grandma some as I remember her making trips to Vaughn to sell or "barter" her butter, eggs, etc. Sometimes I got to go with her to "pick up" the mail out of our "mail box" which was a barrel at the Ramon filling station. I loved going with her as she would buy me a "pop"....Delaware Punch...and sometimes one of the trinkets in the glass case inside the filling station.

AJ