Betty Henry Interview August Ken: So here we are. She lives in Cedar Park Henry: 80 years. Ken: 80 years All but two years. Ken: I see. And you married in and your husband is a rancher and Henry: Yeah, Artie. Ken: Artie. Ken: Oh, congratulations. Ken: Did you have children in school at the time? Henry: I did. I have, uh, no, not at that time. I have two children. A boy and a girl. And, uh, my grandchildren, my great grandchildren, and my children, all graduated from Leander High.
Henry: Now I have great grandchildren going there. Henry: Uh, my son lives up on the hill and my daughter lives in Buda with three grandchildren in eight greats and one little girl. Ken: So, you went to, uh, you went to school in Cedar Park as a young girl? Henry: Yeah, I went there at Whitestone. Ken: Where was Whitestone located? I started there when I was five years old. Ken: How many grades went to school there?
Henry: Uh, I believe we had seven. And then we went to Leander. And, uh, of course, I graduated from there. Ken: You have, good! Henry: Well, I think we had more cedar here than they did anywhere else. Around , owned by a Mr. John Jackson. Ken: All right. Henry: And it was, uh, somewhere in the area close to New Hope Church.
Like I said, my husband worked at the rock quarry when we married. Ken: Is that right! Henry: Yeah. Ken: And this is with an axe? Henry: With an axe. And that was the only two things that you could work around here. Ken: I wonder what the rock quarry paid back then. Do you have idea? Or, would it be, I mean Henry: Oh, yeah, it would be more than that.
Ken: It would be more than that? Uh, I know a lady who was a secretary up there. I can get answers to some questions that, that you have and maybe call you and tell ya. And, uh, lives in Pflugerville. So you want to know what they earned at the rock quarry. Henry: Well, of course, cedar was paid according to how long the posts were and how big around, their circumference.
