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must have been in get on his horse and round up the
really bad shape cattle. When the cows came in, I
because Daddy would drive the wagon in a circle,
went to town, and Daddy would pour the cow
25 miles away, cake out.” She also remembers
and brought the clearly the two cattle buyers who
doctor back. The came calling every year in their
new wonder business suits: Emil Knootson from
drug of the day Dalhart and Emery Sager from
was the Sulpha Childress.
Drug. He gave
me that, and I Mrs. Taylor also recalls a lesson she
survived.” learned the first time she helped her
daddy move cattle. She was so eager
Fall at the Taylor to help that she rode her horse at
ranch meant the head of the herd. It wasn’t until
butchering hogs. they returned home that she learned
Virginia’s father the first rule of the range: The help
and his brothers NEVER rides ahead of the Boss.
would get
together at her Virginia’s parents built a big
house and go 8-room house in the early 50’s.
to work. Each It even had a bathroom! She had
slaughtered hog attended elementary school in the
was lowered tiny community of South Plains, but
into a large from the 8th-12th grades, the Taylor
vat of scalding children commuted 25 miles each
water. Then it way to Floydada. Virginia excelled
would be lifted in speech and drama, and even
out, and all won state competitions. Later in her
the hair was life, she was asked to participate
call was for a certain household. scraped off. “We had a smokehouse. in many civic and fund-raising
You had to go through the operator Mother and I went out ever so often events, doing programs, narrating
(central) for some calls, and you to rub curing salt into the hams. style shows, and even representing
could also listen in on any call and Mother made cotton sacks for the Texas at the National Farm Bureau
find out other peoples’ business sausage, and we used a sausage Convention in Chicago, where she
- just like Facebook, but without press to fill the sacks.” received a standing ovation.
pictures!”
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In addition to telephone service, went to the Daughters of the Pioneers
Virginia describes how far medical canyons often
care has come since her childhood. to feed the cattle For membership Come travel with us!
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and sore throats. “But one time, I
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