Oral Histories
Deone Skewes
b.1920

Q: And they named the hospital after him?
A: They named the new hospital after him.
Q: So you grew up to know him, I suppose.
A: Oh yes. His son and his step children were good friends of mine. We were life-long friends as kids, you know, and still are — the ones of us who are still left.
Q: So your mother was Lydia Skewes.
A: Yes. She was Lydia Taylor Skewes.
Q: Sam Taylor’s cousin? Or your first cousin?
A: Yes. Sam and I are first cousins. His dad and my mother were brother and sister. So, Sam and I go back a long way too.
Q: Just you and your sister, Elaine Peterson? Were you the only children?
A: No, Mother had five children. Our one sister, Madge, is not living now and our two brothers do not live here. One lives in Texas..
Q: He’s the one who gave us the gun.
A: He’s the one who gave you the guns. And, the other brother lives in Bountiful.
Q: So you see them every now and then?
A: Well, not really often, because we are all getting too old to get up and go anywhere.
Q: I think the Texas gun-giver did come up again. Either last year ..