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Joseph R. McGeshick HIST 398 (598) Oral History- Tape Abstract Spring 1994 Harriet Kozicek Hatley - Colfax, W A Interviewed by Joseph R. McGeshick TIME Side A 000-020 021-046 047-065 066-092 093-099 100-110 111-138 139-143 144-168 Introduction. Harriet Josephine Kozicek Hatley. Born, Jan. 21, 1920. Parents. Youngest of three daughters. Moved with parents in 1923 from Stewart, Neb. to Waitsberg, Wash. Came by train however, she was too young to remember the trip. Lived on a 10 acre place in Waitsberg. Father worked at the prison in Wall a Wall a and also worked on farms in the area as well as working their acreage. Description of their place. Fruit trees, garden, milk cow, a few cattle, pigs. Tells of how she and her sister kept the cows away from the fruit trees. They canned a lot of the food they grew. Had an old wood cook stove. Description of her home in Waitsberg as a child and compares it to her first farm and house on Union Flat (just west of Colfax). Education in Waitsberg. Graduated from high school in 1938. Description of school and classes. Story about winter and growmg up. Tells about her two sisters and their families. 169-184 185-204 205-211 212-224 225-239 240-246 247-294 295-300 301-304 305-331 332-336 337-345 Life after high school. Attended business college in Walia Walla. Earned a two year business degree. Early employment: Army Corps of Engineers, local grocery store, and a fruit company. Married Ed Hatley in 1939. Ed came from a very prominent Pullman family who homestead the area in the late 1870s. He was working in the Waitsberg area. Story of meeting Ed at a Grange dance. They date for a year. He courted her while she attended business college in Walla Walla. They married on Aug. 6, 1939. Two son were born, 1942 and 1944. Moved to present farm on Union Flat after brief stays in Walla Walla and Uniontown. Description of their place on Union Flat. 97 acres. Garden, cattle, farming. Story of the flood in the late 40s or early 50s (She showed me pictures). Description of house and its furnishings. Story of their first crop of oats, five feet high, after the flood. Description of how they got water to the house. Moved to present house about a quarter mile from their first place. Description of the road that goes by their place. Boys started school. 346-364 365-371 372-382 383-400 401-411 412-END ENDOFSIDEA Side B 000-023 024-056 057-071 072-140 141-163 164-187 WWII. Ed was not called because of his job with the forest service and because of him having a new son. Story about an Air Force plane crash which Ed helped investigate. First acreage on Union Flat. Life on Union Flat. Ed worked the farm and also did a lot of carpentry work in the Pullman/Colfax area. He is well known for his finish work. Description of their farm on Union Flat. Milk cows, cattle, hogs, sheep, garden, saddle horses. Description of differences between children (a girl is born in 1951- Sherri). They always had animals to take care of and chores to do. Cont.' with children and stories about them. Describes daughter Sherri and husband, Lyle. Story of Ed, he was a very good dancer. Tells of how Sherri and Lyle dance a lot today. Grandchildren. 4, 2 boys & 2 girls. Ed died in 1979. Story of his death and events leading up to it. Children's reactions. Story about is smoking and the night he passed away. Raspberry patch story. Description of Ed and how he loved to camp. Story of the time he fell asleep and let Sherry drive. 188-213 214-293 294-325 326-354 355-383 384-410 411-END ENDOFSIDEB Back to his death. The night he died, he sat in his favorite chair and as he crumpled up an empty package of cigarettes, he said, "I've just got to quit smoking." That night he died in his sleep. Description of the effect of his death on the children. Story of his burial and how it caused some tension among the family. Back to her parents. backto Stewart, Neb. Story of how she went Genealogy of her family. Description of children and their growing up. Description of her contemporary activities. Her battle with cancer. More on children. More on Ed and how he loved to dance, fish, hunt and camp.
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Title | Hatley, Harriet Kozicek Oral History Interview, 1994 |
Interviewer | McGeshick, Joseph R. |
Date | 1994-04-16 |
Description | 63 minute oral history with Harriet Hatley conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. She talks about her early childhood on her parent's cattle ranch outside Waitsburg, Washington. They raised fruit and beef, and she describes the chores and responsibilities of ranch life. She met her husband in high school and she describes how he courted her while she attended business college in Walla Walla. They married in 1939, and she talks about the birth of their three children and purchase of 97 acres to farm in Union Flat, Washington. Harriet describes her family life on the farm and how much she loved her husband and children. |
Subject | Farm life; Rural women; Working mothers; Housewives |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Walla Walla County--Waitsburg; North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Union Flat |
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 | ua220b11f77 |
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 | ua220b11f77_Abstract |
Full Text | Joseph R. McGeshick HIST 398 (598) Oral History- Tape Abstract Spring 1994 Harriet Kozicek Hatley - Colfax, W A Interviewed by Joseph R. McGeshick TIME Side A 000-020 021-046 047-065 066-092 093-099 100-110 111-138 139-143 144-168 Introduction. Harriet Josephine Kozicek Hatley. Born, Jan. 21, 1920. Parents. Youngest of three daughters. Moved with parents in 1923 from Stewart, Neb. to Waitsberg, Wash. Came by train however, she was too young to remember the trip. Lived on a 10 acre place in Waitsberg. Father worked at the prison in Wall a Wall a and also worked on farms in the area as well as working their acreage. Description of their place. Fruit trees, garden, milk cow, a few cattle, pigs. Tells of how she and her sister kept the cows away from the fruit trees. They canned a lot of the food they grew. Had an old wood cook stove. Description of her home in Waitsberg as a child and compares it to her first farm and house on Union Flat (just west of Colfax). Education in Waitsberg. Graduated from high school in 1938. Description of school and classes. Story about winter and growmg up. Tells about her two sisters and their families. 169-184 185-204 205-211 212-224 225-239 240-246 247-294 295-300 301-304 305-331 332-336 337-345 Life after high school. Attended business college in Walia Walla. Earned a two year business degree. Early employment: Army Corps of Engineers, local grocery store, and a fruit company. Married Ed Hatley in 1939. Ed came from a very prominent Pullman family who homestead the area in the late 1870s. He was working in the Waitsberg area. Story of meeting Ed at a Grange dance. They date for a year. He courted her while she attended business college in Walla Walla. They married on Aug. 6, 1939. Two son were born, 1942 and 1944. Moved to present farm on Union Flat after brief stays in Walla Walla and Uniontown. Description of their place on Union Flat. 97 acres. Garden, cattle, farming. Story of the flood in the late 40s or early 50s (She showed me pictures). Description of house and its furnishings. Story of their first crop of oats, five feet high, after the flood. Description of how they got water to the house. Moved to present house about a quarter mile from their first place. Description of the road that goes by their place. Boys started school. 346-364 365-371 372-382 383-400 401-411 412-END ENDOFSIDEA Side B 000-023 024-056 057-071 072-140 141-163 164-187 WWII. Ed was not called because of his job with the forest service and because of him having a new son. Story about an Air Force plane crash which Ed helped investigate. First acreage on Union Flat. Life on Union Flat. Ed worked the farm and also did a lot of carpentry work in the Pullman/Colfax area. He is well known for his finish work. Description of their farm on Union Flat. Milk cows, cattle, hogs, sheep, garden, saddle horses. Description of differences between children (a girl is born in 1951- Sherri). They always had animals to take care of and chores to do. Cont.' with children and stories about them. Describes daughter Sherri and husband, Lyle. Story of Ed, he was a very good dancer. Tells of how Sherri and Lyle dance a lot today. Grandchildren. 4, 2 boys & 2 girls. Ed died in 1979. Story of his death and events leading up to it. Children's reactions. Story about is smoking and the night he passed away. Raspberry patch story. Description of Ed and how he loved to camp. Story of the time he fell asleep and let Sherry drive. 188-213 214-293 294-325 326-354 355-383 384-410 411-END ENDOFSIDEB Back to his death. The night he died, he sat in his favorite chair and as he crumpled up an empty package of cigarettes, he said, "I've just got to quit smoking." That night he died in his sleep. Description of the effect of his death on the children. Story of his burial and how it caused some tension among the family. Back to her parents. backto Stewart, Neb. Story of how she went Genealogy of her family. Description of children and their growing up. Description of her contemporary activities. Her battle with cancer. More on children. More on Ed and how he loved to dance, fish, hunt and camp. |
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