Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma - Hattie Chandler Interview -  #10599  Vol. 88
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Field Worker:  Zaidee B. Bland
Date:  April 27, 1938
Name:  Mrs. Hattie Chandler
Post Office: Altus
Residence: South Jackson Street
Date of Birth: April 8, 1855
Place of Birth:  Howard County, Arkansas
Name of Father: Robert Rowe
Father’s Place of Birth: Georgia
Name of Mother:  Susanne Thompson
Mother’s Place of Birth:  Georgia

	My husband’s people lived in Arkansas and we lived in Wichita Falls, Texas.  Once when we had
started back to Arkansas to visit the kin we stopped at Webbers Falls for a few days and my husband 
leased land from the Indians and I have never left the state since except on a visit.  I have lived 
nearly all my life among the Indians and like them for neighbors.  I have only been in the west part of 
the state about ten years.
	Squaw men wanted so little rent that it was cheaper to farm their land than it was to come here 
and homestead.  We lived at Webbers Falls until we could not get land to farm nearer than thirty-five 
miles away and we thought that too far away to go back and forth.  We never knew about cotton but it was
 always corn, peanuts, cane, garden stuff and fruit with us.  We raised a little stock and hogs always. 
 We lived in a big box house with a shed along on the side.  Good soft water was always abundant in the 
eastern part of the state.  We took our corn to the mill and had our meal ground and made enough hominy 
and (soap?) every fall to do all winter.  All the schooling  my daughter ever got was with the Indians.