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Clara K. Ide 4/13/92 Tape 1 Interviewed by Carolyn Huesties Additional information by my Great Aunt, Helen Cline Side A. 0-8 8-48 48-72 72-92 91-116 116-172 172-227 227-305 Introduction: Born October 27,1905 in Nebraska. Meeting her husband, worked at a laundry mat, lived alone. She got married and never held a job again. She had kids, one right after each other. Her kids would listen to "Gangbusters" on the radio. Moved to Wyoming after third child was born, Don, (Helen and Ray were her first two children). Mo~ed to Wyoming from Nebraska because my Great Grandpa wanted a farm. He built a log-cabin for the family to live in. The kids, and especially my Great Grandma did a lot of chores. She canned chili, stew, meat, etc. They used this in the winters. She also enjoyed gardening. The Depression. Didn't seem to really hit them. They were isolated. She had canned goods, made bread, and my Great Grandpa provided meat. Hew butchered pigs and cows. They got clothes from Montgomery Wards. She sewed very little. The oldest daughter, Helen, got married in 1942. They were in debt so they sold the farm. They moved to Westwater, Idaho. She only had four kids at home now, because Helen was married and her second youngest child, June, died of measles. The whole family experienced measles. She was pregnant and she still did all the chores. She's happiest now. Education. The kids took free and the kids brought minorities in schools, but bub they wouldn't talk to any close women friends. whiskey still, and he made still exploded. busses, the school was their own lunches. No they would see Indians, them. She didn't have My Great Grandpa had a gasoline. The gasoline Moved to Mountainhome, Idaho, and worked at a chicken farm. When moving, they used a truck and a homemade trailer house. Great Grandpa did construction and when that was over, they moved to Pasco, Washington, to find work. They had to save 1 350-410 410-416 417-605 Side B 636-655 655-687 687-732 732-820 and then they moved to a small farm in Pasco. She voted one time. There was a huge flood in the Tri-Cities. They almost lost their strawberry farm. All the kids were out of the house now. She and my Great Grandpa moved to Portland. Great Grandpa was a carpenter and she just stayed home. They moved to several cities in Oregon. They raised Manx for a while. Great Grandpa got sick from alcohol and she had to take care of him. Her children helped her to take care of him and helped her to visit him during this hospital stays. He was eventually put in a nursing home in Gervis, Oregon. When they were living in Ashland, Oregon, several years prior, they were forced to move because Southern Oregon State College paid them to move so they could build on their property. She took care of Manxs then and it was very hard work. Eventually she and my Great Grandpa came back to the Tri-Cities. She says she's had a very rough life. My Great Grandfather's sickness was very hard on her. He did pass away in 1975 and my grandparents began taking care of her. This is the happiest she's ever been. She's had a very tough life. She never knew of drugs. Nor her children; they say there were all too busy working on the farm. They were isolated. Birth. Some were born at home, and some at the hospital. Sometimes neighbor women helped her to give birth. My Great Grandpa never was allowed to be in the room during birth. He was usually in the field. She had one miscarriage and she had to go to the hospital for a couple of weeks. There was no birth control that she every knew of. Very isolated. Didn't even hear about the Eastside. They weren't interested. The Tri-Cities has changed tremendously in the last fifty years. The husband was always the head of the family. They divorced and remarried at one point after the kids were grown. They both married separate people, but they realized they were still in love with each other so they divorced their new spouses and remarried. 2 820-880 880-935 Her grandparents raised her in Nebraska. They were German. Her mother died young and her father left. She was Catholic. Conclusion with some funny stories from my greataunts childhood. 3
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Title | Ide, Clara Kathleen Oral History Interview, 1992 |
Interviewer | Huesties, Carolyn |
Date | 1992-05-05 |
Description | 72 minute oral history with Clara Kathleen Ide, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. She married and became a housewife with six children on a farm. She discusses the chores she had to do and raising her children. Even when sick she completed her chores because they had to be done. She moved multiple times with a family to where the jobs were, until they settled in Washington and she had to learn not to be a mother to her grown up children but a wife to a man who worked out in the fields. |
Subject | Housewives; Farm life |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Franklin County--Pasco; North and Central America--United States--Nebraska; North and Central America--United States--Wyoming |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua220b08f57 |
Source | Is found in Archives 220, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua220.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files, and then converted to flv files for online display. Print documents were scanned to 300dpi pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua220b08f57_Abstract |
Full Text | Clara K. Ide 4/13/92 Tape 1 Interviewed by Carolyn Huesties Additional information by my Great Aunt, Helen Cline Side A. 0-8 8-48 48-72 72-92 91-116 116-172 172-227 227-305 Introduction: Born October 27,1905 in Nebraska. Meeting her husband, worked at a laundry mat, lived alone. She got married and never held a job again. She had kids, one right after each other. Her kids would listen to "Gangbusters" on the radio. Moved to Wyoming after third child was born, Don, (Helen and Ray were her first two children). Mo~ed to Wyoming from Nebraska because my Great Grandpa wanted a farm. He built a log-cabin for the family to live in. The kids, and especially my Great Grandma did a lot of chores. She canned chili, stew, meat, etc. They used this in the winters. She also enjoyed gardening. The Depression. Didn't seem to really hit them. They were isolated. She had canned goods, made bread, and my Great Grandpa provided meat. Hew butchered pigs and cows. They got clothes from Montgomery Wards. She sewed very little. The oldest daughter, Helen, got married in 1942. They were in debt so they sold the farm. They moved to Westwater, Idaho. She only had four kids at home now, because Helen was married and her second youngest child, June, died of measles. The whole family experienced measles. She was pregnant and she still did all the chores. She's happiest now. Education. The kids took free and the kids brought minorities in schools, but bub they wouldn't talk to any close women friends. whiskey still, and he made still exploded. busses, the school was their own lunches. No they would see Indians, them. She didn't have My Great Grandpa had a gasoline. The gasoline Moved to Mountainhome, Idaho, and worked at a chicken farm. When moving, they used a truck and a homemade trailer house. Great Grandpa did construction and when that was over, they moved to Pasco, Washington, to find work. They had to save 1 350-410 410-416 417-605 Side B 636-655 655-687 687-732 732-820 and then they moved to a small farm in Pasco. She voted one time. There was a huge flood in the Tri-Cities. They almost lost their strawberry farm. All the kids were out of the house now. She and my Great Grandpa moved to Portland. Great Grandpa was a carpenter and she just stayed home. They moved to several cities in Oregon. They raised Manx for a while. Great Grandpa got sick from alcohol and she had to take care of him. Her children helped her to take care of him and helped her to visit him during this hospital stays. He was eventually put in a nursing home in Gervis, Oregon. When they were living in Ashland, Oregon, several years prior, they were forced to move because Southern Oregon State College paid them to move so they could build on their property. She took care of Manxs then and it was very hard work. Eventually she and my Great Grandpa came back to the Tri-Cities. She says she's had a very rough life. My Great Grandfather's sickness was very hard on her. He did pass away in 1975 and my grandparents began taking care of her. This is the happiest she's ever been. She's had a very tough life. She never knew of drugs. Nor her children; they say there were all too busy working on the farm. They were isolated. Birth. Some were born at home, and some at the hospital. Sometimes neighbor women helped her to give birth. My Great Grandpa never was allowed to be in the room during birth. He was usually in the field. She had one miscarriage and she had to go to the hospital for a couple of weeks. There was no birth control that she every knew of. Very isolated. Didn't even hear about the Eastside. They weren't interested. The Tri-Cities has changed tremendously in the last fifty years. The husband was always the head of the family. They divorced and remarried at one point after the kids were grown. They both married separate people, but they realized they were still in love with each other so they divorced their new spouses and remarried. 2 820-880 880-935 Her grandparents raised her in Nebraska. They were German. Her mother died young and her father left. She was Catholic. Conclusion with some funny stories from my greataunts childhood. 3 |
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