Interview with Roy Wilhelm, Summer 1993
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From an interview with his Daughter-in-law [[Karen Shreeve|Karen]] in 1993 | From an interview with his Daughter-in-law [[Karen Shreeve|Karen]] in 1993 | ||
| - | ==Pa and his siblings== | + | ==Pa and his half-siblings== |
| - | '''Karen''': Did your Dad know his half-brothers and sisters? | + | '''Karen''': Did your [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] know his half-brothers and sisters? |
'''Roy''': Oh sure. | '''Roy''': Oh sure. | ||
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'''Karen''': Did they ever communicate with them after they left and went to Mexico? | '''Karen''': Did they ever communicate with them after they left and went to Mexico? | ||
| - | '''Roy''': Not as such, they didn't stay in touch. | + | '''Roy''': Not as such, they didn't stay in touch. I think they heard about the other one from people coming and going but they drifted apart. |
| - | '''Karen''': Did B.H. write to Lydia while he was gone, did they stay in touch? | + | |
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| + | '''Karen''': Did [[Bateman Haight Wilhelm|B.H.]] write to [[Lydia Hannah Draper|Lydia]] while he was gone, did they stay in touch? | ||
'''Roy''': I don't know that. They wasn't divorced or anything. But they (Lydia and family) felt pretty bitter toward him. He must have sold a little stuff and took a little money with him and they didn't get any of it. They pretty near starved to death. For some reason they always felt a little bad toward the old man. | '''Roy''': I don't know that. They wasn't divorced or anything. But they (Lydia and family) felt pretty bitter toward him. He must have sold a little stuff and took a little money with him and they didn't get any of it. They pretty near starved to death. For some reason they always felt a little bad toward the old man. | ||
| - | '''Karen''': Also we noticed on the census records they had B.H., Grace and their kids in Concho but I couldn't find Lydia anywhere in Concho. Did he maybe leave her in Utah when he first came down to Arizona and then her and her family come down later? | + | '''Karen''': Also we noticed on the census records they had [[Bateman Haight Wilhelm|B.H.]], [[Grace Tippett Jose|Grace]] and their kids in Concho but I couldn't find [[Lydia Hannah Draper|Lydia]] anywhere in Concho. Did he maybe leave her in [[Utah]] when he first came down to [[Arizona]] and then her and her family come down later? |
| - | '''Roy''': If anybody come down later it was Grace | + | '''Roy''': If anybody come down later it was [[Grace Tippett Jose|Grace]]... I don't know how they figured the census... Just the ones that lived in surveyed Concho. My folks never lived there. They lived on the ranch, the ranch that Candeleria has, it was their homestead and it was outside of a surveyed place and if they're doing census they don't go on the ranches around. So maybe that's how they got missed. (Ed. Note: Later research of census records of Utah in 1880 show Lydia and her kids and B.H. still in Utah in June of 1880. So apparently they did come down later than Grace's family. The autobiographies of [[Autobiography of Clarissa Wilhelm|Clarissa]] and [[Autobiography of Clarissa Isabell Wilhelm|Clara]] also state that Lydia and her family stayed behind in Utah for a time.) |
==Going to school with mother== | ==Going to school with mother== | ||
