This is old boys and I wanted to tell you a story that happened down here about I guess it was about two years back and Reason I thought of it just caused my my girl Emily She showed me the other day how to tune into these They got these podcasts and own this This phone and if you know how to how to do it you can you can listen, you know to what other people have Recorded you know and she showed me how to do that and and I really like to hear you know what other people Record a special when they when they tell stories, you know and so I heard this old boy named Jeremiah Craig he's up there in Oregon and he done this song about old doodly he was a Man that was bad to drink and what it reminded me of this boy down here that is the same way You know, he's a he's a good old boy, but he's he's awful bad to drink But anyway, I'm I'm rambling again and my girl's gonna get on me, but uh what happened was that oh great He's a great you forward was real bad to drink now. He wasn't a bad Fuller he just he just liked to drink and his wife done everything she could you know stop him But she wouldn't pick up no rolling pin and nothing like that cuz uh well she was uh she was a real A general person and she wouldn't hit nobody But she kept trying to work on Grady to get him to quit drinking and Grady You know the truth of the matter was that he didn't want to quit He liked drinking it was that simple and he kept telling her that he said I ain't hurting nobody I'm just drinking and of course what she always told him said you you go into hell on the poker is what she told him, but anyway They there was this bunch of folks moved in down here They come in here on a bus had a this bus and it was painted up had these old funny looking pictures on the bus They they painted it up. I don't know what they was trying to do But they moved into the Borden house down here now. There was this Borden house that was built Way back under and it was built for these people that worked on the railroad back back under when the railroad come through and They built this Borden house for these people to live in and it was it was a two store house only two store house down here And it's got a you know if you look downstairs It's got old four or five little old rooms that they call bedrooms They they just big enough to put a you know a single Bayon and then they got a Big old dining room in the middle of it, you know where they can serve dinner And then they got a kitchen at the end of it You know where they cook the food and what they've done is all these people come down here to live and they live in that Borden house And then they would eat you know all the meat together there in the dining room and in upstairs They had a whole bunch of little old bitty rooms like I was telling you about downstairs and I guess they could sleep probably old 25 or 30 people in that big old house down there well anyway, it's been closed up for old 30 40 years, but it ain't been painted and these people come down here and I guess they they Thought they'd bought the place But they didn't they just found it empty and they moved into it and I didn't know that at the time I thought that they had bought it and What it was My girl Emily told me they was a cup I don't know what that is that they said they was a bunch of people that was starting up at churches All I know and they was about four or five million in the bunch and about 20 women and You know they told different stories about them and I didn't know them at all I just met them one time, but they said that they was practicing what they call Polygamy what they they was had You know where a man could marry a more than more than one person and I guess all them men there was about five of them I guess they had about three wives a piece I reckon and that's supposed to be illegal see but they was down here didn't nobody know nothing about them for a while anyway and and they stayed down here and They were starting a church is what they would do and they would have church downstairs and And just just that bunch of people's all there was at first and they'd come in to Holland and you could hear them down there Oh, they worship on Saturdays what they done.
They didn't have church on Sunday. They had church on Saturday I don't know why but that's what they done and they would they would holler and you could hear them You know beating on the walls and I don't know what they were doing down there But anyway, they stayed down there about six months and people got you know started getting suspicious of them But they never did they would go down to the store You know to get some some groceries and all the women had them long dresses on it would drag the ground my and They had these coverings on their faces and you couldn't you couldn't see them? Well, you know, they just had to this it was like a mosquito netting over the face but anyway, I'm getting I'm rambling again, but they they come down here and they was trying to get some people to join up with them and What nobody you know interested in them they come down here at my house one time and they This man come down here at first and he asked me he said Brother do you have a church and I said no and I ain't looking for none. That's what I told him and So he he stomped off and The next day the whole gang was down here All the women and the men and they was they was outside the gate and they wanted to come in course the gate was locked You know, I were fastened up and I've got this big old dog here He won't hurt nobody, but they didn't know that he was a one of them Oh, he's of course mixed breed But he's he got some great day in him and he's a big old tall dog looks like a horse and all the kids You know, pity me just a big old pet But but he's got a real mean bargain.
You don't know him you think he's gonna eat you up But these people they wanted me to let him in and I said no and they said well call the dog off And I said no, but that dog won't hurt you if you stay out there and And I've got this other dog here that he helps me Heard cows and he's a kind of a mixed collie and he might he might would bite you But this old great day won't hurt nobody, but they didn't know that and so they kept asking me You know what I let him in and I said no, I said you can't can't come in whatever you got to say you can say to me Well, they Stomp brown out there and they prayed they got down and prayed and they started they saw a song or two But then they left and I ain't seen nothing more of them Since you know since they come down here They've been back and and I sure hope they don't come back cuz they are strange bunch of people and and I don't care You know as long as they stay out of my yard. I don't care what they do But anyway, they done the same thing down at Grady's house and Grady wasn't there He was out in the he was out on the you know cutting hay out there and and his wife was homo Ida and they started talking to her and they converted her and she started she said she was gonna be One of them they of course they worked on her because she was having you know had this husband that they was drinking and they said he was a hell bound and You know she they worked on her emotions and they they got her Convinced that they could help her so she joined up with them and she started going to church down there at that boarding house and They Used to have baptizing down there see that boarding house is right there on the side of that bow Down there and they they have baptizing and I guess they must baptize you two or three times I guess if you go off and do something wrong and they I guess they figure you need baptizing again I don't know but they baptized Oh Ida, you know two or three times I know well cuz she told me about it, but anyway, they had these baptizing down there and so Oh, Grady used to have to go get her It was about oh two miles down there to that boarding house and Grady would always drive down there and pick her up And she kept trying to get Grady to join the church and Grady said no He didn't want no part of it, but he said that he'd pick her up well One Saturday after the worship they didn't worship after sundown so it was but when they had the baptizing see they started in the middle of the afternoon and they would have a service and then they'd baptize them about sunset so oh Grady He went down there. He thought it was over You know because he heard him start up about three o'clock and he figured it was over, but it wouldn't see they was doing the baptizing and so they When he got down there to pick up Ida see they just commenced the baptizing and uh so He come down to get her and some of them called Grady and they called him and they was going to baptize him Well Grady is you know afraid of water? He is terrible afraid of water.
He won't swim and he's always you know getting on these kids down here for swimming I think that one of his relatives of somebody got drowned in and it just made Grady just terrible afraid of the water and if you try to put Grady in the water he'll fight you because he is scared Well, they but they got him a bunch of them dragged him out there in the water and you could you could hear Grady screaming I could hear him plumb down here and they they baptized him ducked him under and he he finally got away from him and His so he come by running by here and he told me to go down there and get his wife He said they had her down there and told asked me would I go down and get it get her and I said yeah And he said well you better watch him cuz they'll baptize you and I said no they won't they ain't gonna baptize me so I went down there and Got out of and of course they they I broke that dog down there with me because I was gonna scare them people and I brought that big old Dog down there with me looks like a horse and so they didn't they didn't say nothing to me and I got out of and I told him to come And we'd go home and I took her home. Well, she ain't been back to the church, you know, she learned her lesson that then people was crazy and so she she hadn't been back down there and the the sheriff some of the people reported these folks to the sheriff down there and he come down here to see what was going on and he seen all them men, you know them three or four men in that whole house with women and He found out, you know that they was the polygamists. They didn't believe in I mean they thought it was alright to marry more than one person and he told them they couldn't do that down here and he said he was gonna call the District Attorney what he told me said they're gonna close you down You can't do that down here and he said you're gonna have to if you're gonna live here You're gonna have to live according to the law Well, they they got on their bus. Of course, they didn't have any right to that house in the first place It was just empty and they moved into it as this like it was You know in the West when people they had these Squatters and they called them and they would they would come into a piece of land and just take over it, you know Didn't claim it, but they just take over and live there Well, that's what these people was doing and we didn't know it or at least I didn't but anyway He he run them off and they got on their bus and I don't know where they went that way that I've been asking everybody what happened to them They were they called the sales if I understand incorrect now they they called themselves Or they'd blame you I can't think of what they called the sales Magnificence or something I think it's what they was Magnificence that may not make no sense, but I think that's what they called the sales But anyway ain't nobody seen them and I don't know where they went You know, but they ain't down here no more so that's the story and the reason that I thought of it It is because of oh Jeremiah Craig He was singing that song you know about dooley and it just kind of reminded me of that story So I thought I'd tell it to you