"Father raised sheep and we sheared them and spun thread which we made into cloth for our clothes. We also carded the wool for quilts. We dyed our cloth with home made dyes. We boiled bois d' arc bark for yellow, indigo weeds for blue, and black haw roots for purple.
The first ink I remember was made of polk berry juice.
I was married April 12, 1891, to Mr. Kennedy by Noah Holston, County Judge of Sugar Loaf County, in the Choctaw Nation. We lived near Wilburton on a ranch. We went in ox wagons to Fort Smith to haul freight."
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