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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , l987 INTERVIEWEE: WILLARD DEASON INTERVIEWER: Christie L. Bourgeois PLACE: Mr. Deason's residence, Austin, Texas Tape l of l, Side l B: Mr. Deason, I'd like to start this morning by having you tell me a little bit about Wilson County where you
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • years now. That pretty well gives you a pin picture of my life except I didn't start out saying I was a farm boy down in Stockdale down into Eason and Wilson County. That's where I started. R: Well, if my arithmetic is right, that puts you in the early
  • , E.S. "Pat" Kelly, Max Mallick, Reagan Nesbitt, Justin Blakeney, Raymond Hicks, Henry Moore, J. Paul Secrest, J. Edwin Smith, Will Henry Burt, Hubbard Neely, Bert Horne, Gus Barr, Buster Brown, C.B. McNeil, Roy Swift; people from Wilson County
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh DEASON -- IV -- 15 Sam Fore was the power in Wilson County~ really in a lot of South Texas. But he had the leading paper in Wilson County, the Floresville ChronicleJournal. A very, very dynamic man. And they were close friends. Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rapidly what all you did up to the time that you came to Washington and the Interstate Commerce Commission. D: I was born in Stockdale, Texas, in Wilson County just east of San Antonio; lived on a farm until I was eighteen or twenty years old. I became