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Catalog Number |
2019.192.001 |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Hatchett, Rebecca "Becky" Smith |
Object Name |
Recording |
Date |
02/16/2019 |
Digital Link |
Click here to listen to recording. |
Scope & Content |
Recording of an oral history interview with Rebecca "Becky" Smith Hatchett at the Tulsa Historical Society by museum volunteer Lorretta Bertalot on February 16, 2019. The audio track is fifty-seven minutes in length. Hatchett is a local historian and genealogist who has researched her ancestors who came to the Red Fork area of West Tulsa in 1915. She has detailed information about their lives and shares her own recollections of growing up in West Tulsa. 00:17 great-grandparents, George and Sarah Castle, rented the Clinton farmhouse from 1915 to 1919 04:49 grandmother, Fannie Castle Smith, was postmistress at Red Fork, then was a teacher for forty-three years 07:26 "Big Mom," great-grandmother Sarah Castle, had eight children who formed a close-knit family 09:56 grandparents Fannie and Weaver Smith lived in home with "Big Mom" during refinery strike 13:55 Fannie Smith taught 6th grade at Pleasant Porter Elementary School in Red Fork for entire career 24:05 mother and father married in 1952, Becky's mother died when she was three, dad and children moved into home with grandmother Fannie Smith who retired to care for Becky and her younger brother 26:51 Becky's recollections of businesses at Red Fork Corner and details of staff at Porter Elementary 34:26 Becky walked alone on shopping trip (at age nine) to Crystal City Shopping Center 38:13 remembrances of going to Park Elementary School in 5th and 6th grades 41:12 Clinton Junior High School activities and as a student at Webster High School 46:03 college at University of Tulsa to be a speech and English teacher; married and had a son; earned certification as school librarian and retired after forty-two years (Mannford and Sand Springs school systems) 54:50 shares writings of grandmother Fannie Smith: description of Clinton farmhouse and grounds and list of businesses of early day Red Fork in the 1910s |
Search Terms |
Clinton Junior High School Crystal City Shopping Center Daniel Webster High School oral history interviews Pleasant Porter School Red Fork Corner Red Fork Drug Company Red Fork, OK West Tulsa, OK |
People |
Hatchett, Rebecca "Becky" Smith Smith, Frances "Fannie" Castle |