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2. Studack Accident

2. Studack Accident of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 6 — recorded September 18, 1990 at Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.

Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.

p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.

Provenance

From: #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner
Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner
Recorded: September 18, 1990 · Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon
Interviewer: Bob Zybach
Printed pages: p. 6
Original: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Part I. Printed session note: "The following transcript was made from a recorded interview with Jake Rohner that took place at Jake 's home on September 18, 1990. Due to some problems with the recording equipment, about 40 minutes of the interview--between Part I and Part H [II] failed to record. After reviewing the transcripts, Joke [Jake] and Willie provided written corrections and additions. These comments appear throughout the manuscript enclosed in [brackets] and include the initials of the person that has provided the information." The gap is flagged in the text at p.6 ("Problem with the tape recorder resulted in 40-minute gap.") and p.12 ("Tape recorder problem continued.").

p. 6

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: there.

Bob Zybach: Could they have lived on the other side of Smith Hill or Folks Hill, or were they on the Soap Creek side, the Kilmers?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Oh, I don't think they were very far from the Writsman place, so it would be near Soap Creek.

Bob Zybach: There's. . . at the base of Writsman 's Hill, the hill we were describing, it would be west of the Writsman 's place, there is a creek and an old orchard and some old buildings there. Or there were in the 1930's. On the other side of the road; on the west side of the road. Can you recall a family that lived in there?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: No, I didn't know where the Kilmers or the Shanks lived, but it's somewhere through that area. And of cQurse Jim Hanish and his family lived out in there somewhere.

Bob Zybach: Did you know the Hanishes at that time?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: No, not until 30 years ago. Maybe closer to 40.

Problem with the tape recorder resulted in 40-minute gap.

2. Studack Accident

Bob Zybach: Okay, you were describing hearing about Studack's accident in the woods.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Yes, father and mother and my sisters and I, we were digging potatoes, I think probably the middle of October or toward the later part, in the southwest corner of our farm, joining Beals farm and the Wiles farm, when somebody came to notify, tell us, about the Mr. Studack being injured in the woods. And he wasn't expected to live.

Bob Zybach: Did. . .how old were you then? That was 1928, so you would have been.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: 1928, I would have been 14. I was born in 1914.

Bob Zybach: Did you remember seeing him in the hospital?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Yes, I remember the family going to visit him in the hospital, but he was unconscious and he wasn't expected to live. And it was in Dr. Anderson's hospital, when Dr. Anderson had his own hospital in Corvallis.

Bob Zybach: At that time then, he had a pregnant wife and three children and his best friend living on the property?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: I think he was boarding with them I believe at the time.

Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.

How to cite this item

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As printed: Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.
This page: Rohner 1993. 2. Studack Accident, p. 6. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/02-studack-accident/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 6 — Monograph #05:6
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