Interview with Roy Wilhelm, December 24, 1992
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'''John''': Spent some of the money that way, no doubt. | '''John''': Spent some of the money that way, no doubt. | ||
| - | '''Roy''': Yea Well I didn't know very much about him after he got down there until I got ahold of a book that his boy wrote, no his grandson wrote, and the old man went plumb off the deep end down there drinkin' and he got so he'd come home and kind of rough his wife up and Marion didn't like that, he was the same age as Pa, only a half-brother, see. According to that book that Ben wrote, Benjamin Franklin, his son wrote, the old man come home and started to roughing his mother up and the kid come in and seen him and just reached out the door where they had a single tree leanin' up there, about that long and they were about that big around, made out of hickory. It was a perfect club and he laid 'er up there across the old man there, I guess he tried to kill him, but he knocked the old man just colder than a wedge and then he knew he was through around there, there was no use both of them trying to live under the same roof, so he shoved off and went down into Old Mexico and went to work at a mining, for a mining engineer down there. The mining engineer kind of took over an tutored him along and made a whole new story of its own. Well, Grandpa went on over to Silver City following the mines. | + | '''Roy''': Yea Well I didn't know very much about him after he got down there until I got ahold of a book that his boy wrote, no his grandson wrote, and the old man went plumb off the deep end down there drinkin' and he got so he'd come home and kind of rough his wife up and [[Marion Lee Williams|Marion]] didn't like that, he was the same age as [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Pa]], only a half-brother, see. According to [http://www.amazon.com/Let-The-Tail-With-Hide/dp/1588320227 that book that Ben wrote,] Benjamin Franklin, his son wrote, the old man come home and started to roughing his mother up and the kid come in and seen him and just reached out the door where they had a single tree leanin' up there, about that long and they were about that big around, made out of hickory. It was a perfect club and he laid 'er up there across the old man there, I guess he tried to kill him, but he knocked the old man just colder than a wedge and then he knew he was through around there, there was no use both of them trying to live under the same roof, so he shoved off and went down into Old Mexico and went to work at a mining, for a mining engineer down there. The mining engineer kind of took over an tutored him along and made a whole new story of its own. Well, Grandpa went on over to Silver City following the mines. |
'''John''': Do we know how long he was in Mexico before he went over there? | '''John''': Do we know how long he was in Mexico before he went over there? | ||
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'''Roy''': I don't have an idea. | '''Roy''': I don't have an idea. | ||
| - | '''John''': A few years, anyway? | + | '''John''': A few years, anyway? |
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| + | ''(Ed. Note: Apparently Bateman went back and patched things up with Lydia at some point, as both her and [[Fanny Marilla Wilhelm|Fan]] were with him in New Mexico according to the 1900 US Census.)'' | ||
==B.H. Wilhelm's deathbed jig== | ==B.H. Wilhelm's deathbed jig== | ||
