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9. Rohner Family Photograph

9. Rohner Family Photograph of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 67 — recorded September 30, 1990 at Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon). 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 30, 1990 · Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon)
Interviewer: Bob Zybach
Printed pages: p. 67
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 III. Printed session note: "The following transcnpt [transcript] was made from an interview with fake [Jake] and Willie at fake's [Jake's] home, during the afternoon of September 30, 1990. After reviewing the initial transcripts, fake [Jake] and Willie provided written corrections and additions. These com,nents [comments] appear throughout the manuscript enclosed in [brackets] and include the initials of the person that has provided the information." Both narrators present; speakers are marked in the printed text as [JAKE] and [WILMA]. A note "Pause in Recording" appears at p.64.

p. 67

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: we bought the buildings right, almost right then.

Bob Zybach: That's a picture of the building being put on the Schulmerick place then?

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Yeah.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] After it was up there on the side of the hill a little ways, there was a little flat spot. Now it's christmas trees where the building was.

Bob Zybach: Did anybody ever use that building?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] It was never used.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] We ate lunch in it when we used to farm out there, that was about it. Oh, and that was before Camp Adair even thought about coming in. I don't know what this is, don't have no date on it, does it [referring to photograph].

Bob Zybach: That was the last of the Adair pictures. This is pictures of the Rohner farm and family, now.

9. Rohner Family Photograph

Bob Zybach: You were the one that knew the names of the people in that, Willie, so that's why I'm handing them to you.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Okay, well. From the left to the right here, the front row then. That's my brother Bud, or Ed I guess we're supposed to call him. We always called him Bud. And that's my sister Elsie. And that's myself. And then over here on the left to the right again, that's lake, and my brother-in-law Ralph. And my sister Nell, or Neffie. My brother-in-law Merle Prindle. His wife was my sister Sam, she won't let me use her full name, well she's Selma. But she hates it.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Her full name is Selma. She was named after Mrs. Glender, because Mrs. Glender helped when she was born. So that's where she got the name Selma.

Bob Zybach: You told me that story before and we didn't record it. Can you tell me how Mrs. Glender helped in the birth of.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Well I don't know actually for sure whether she helped in the birth or helped take care of her afterwards.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] I don't know that either, but I know later when I was born Dr. who come out? I heard Mom say some doctor come out.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] We were all born on the farm.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Was it Dr. Ball?

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

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

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. 9. Rohner Family Photograph, p. 67. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/09-rohner-family-photograph/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 67 — Monograph #05:67
https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/09-rohner-family-photograph/#p67 Swap 67 for whichever printed page you are quoting: every page number in the margin is its own address.
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/09-rohner-family-photograph/
Original PDF: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf

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