Yockey - transcription of Clyde Yockey tape

• Title	Yockey - transcription of Clyde Yockey tape
  Short Title	Yockey - transcription of Clyde Yockey tape
  Publisher	Clyde Yocky narrative, recorded 3 Oct 1977; transcribed by Richard Yockey (Lake Forest, California), and sent to Janis Walker Gilmore in 2006, by email correspondence; regarding Claude Yocky and wife Lena (Walker) Yocky; also regarding Lena's brother Earl Walker, and wife Grace (Campbell) Walker.
  Source ID	S1037
  Text	«i»Janis, The following is an excerpt from an audio tape narrative that my uncle, Clyde Leonard Yocky, made while driving home after having visited relatives on his mother's side in Texas and then his aunt Florence (Yocky) Washington and her husband Charles in West Plains, MO. The tape was made Oct 3, 1977. Six months later he and his wife Naoko were killed in an auto accident. It isn't a perfect transcription, but good enough to get his point across. Richard Yocky -------------------------------------------------- "We went up to visit Lena's brother Earl and his wife, Grace, and had a nice visit with them. They live in Mountain View. Went through the little town of Mountain View where Lena's folks are. Earl is still working, when he feels like it, at his cabinet making and he plays checkers. He picked us four nice little strawberries off their plant which was about done bearing but he still managed to find four little strawberries, and gave to us. I was going to take a picture of them and then eat 'em. Well, it wound up that we had left them on a little dish in the window in Florence's kitchen so I wrote a letter to her and told her not to save them for me....to go ahead and eat 'em." "I want to remember to ask Claude if it was him who pulled Fred Jr. out from under the horse in the stall. Fred told me that when he was a young fellow....Fred Stirman Sr., when he was a young fellow out in New Mexico, that he and my uncle Claude Yocky were to go to town one morning to get something that they needed. They went out to hitch up the horses to pull the buggy or wagon, I don't remember which he said, probably wagon, and the horses they had were kind of snorty and Claude had told Fred not to go in the stall with the one horse 'cause he was a pretty bad horse and so he didn't go in that stall but he went in the other stall with the other horse. Well, the horse let him get in the stall and the horse crowded him up against the wall of the stall and was kickin' the stuffin' out of him. Got him three times, broke all his ribs up, and he thinks it was Claude that pulled him out from under the horse." 1 "While we were with Florence I asked her about Claude and Lena's first two children, which I had never known about. She told me that Lena had just got too big with the first baby and it was a forceps delivery. She thinks maybe that the baby was either born dead or she thought that maybe, in the delivery, that the doctor had hurt the baby so bad that it died almost immediately. The second child, they were considerably more concerned about her then with the second child, and I guess Charlie insisted that she come up and stay with them before she was ready to have the baby. So Lena came up to Mountain View, I guess, where they were living....or maybe West Plains. Anyway, they came up to be with Florence and Charlie and so Lena had the baby and it was born alive but never did seem to do very well. In the first few days the baby turned blue and then black and Florence and I thought maybe it might have been one of these congenital heart defects, which makes the blue babies, but then the baby .. she stayed there about two months I guess, and then Lena took the baby and went back on down to where I guess Claude was working. I think she said that this was Locust Grove, Oklahoma, which we found out later is just not too far across the Missouri line....and took the baby and went on home to Claude. But the baby never did do well and died at about 3 months of age or something like that. And Florence was telling about. as soon as they knew that.... Well, of course, they went right down there to be with them. And she had told me that it had started to rain, or had been raining anyway, and it was miserable and wet and went down there and they didn't have the....I guess there was no mortuary there or they couldn't afford it, I don't know which, but anyway, they had to go out and dig there own grave to bury their baby. And it was so cold and wet and miserable that they had to keep dipping the water out of the grave in order to get it cleaned out enough to bury their baby. Poor Aunt Florence. That hurt her, it was all she could do to tell me that, and it was more than I could take, too. We just had to have a cry together. " [We believe that Clyde was correcting himself and that Fred Jr. was relating the story about his father being injured by the horse. - RY]«/i»