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19. Rohner Family

19. Rohner Family of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 87 — 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. 87
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. 87

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: it, on the north end of the house, was practically on the ground and the south end was up off the ground a foot or so or a little over. And we, when we were kids we were shy, and we'd see a car coming up the road visiting. We'd, the three of us. . . I was probably instigator.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Probably, I don't remember that.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] There was just three of us then, so we'd run under the house and hide when a car would come up the road.

19. Rohner Family

Bob Zybach: You've got three other photos here. Now these are dferent because they are not on the family home and they don't have anything to do with Camp Adair.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Yes, this was Uncle Oswald, and myself and a cousin, Lucille Kobler.

Bob Zybach: That's up at the Wiles place?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] That's up at Clarence Wiles house, yes.

Bob Zybach: Okay. When did he purchase that house?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] I really can't remember just when he purchased that house. Did he first rent the place and then buy it, or did he...

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] He must have. I can't remember.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Or did he buy it and move on it? I have no idea.

Bob Zybach: Why did he move out here from Kansas?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] During a drought. 1930 drought. They'd had several years. Fact is, I was back there in 1934, and he had just wrote to my father how things were in Oregon and if there was a chance to come out. And so, when I came there I talked to him some so he decided to move out. And so he sold his cattle, the government paid him according to quality and size I believe it was 8 to 12 dollars a head, or 12-1/2 a head for the cattle, and then they slaughtered the cattle and then they used it for relief families.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Well then his sister and brother-in-law, Aunt Agnes, they come out at the same time.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Yes, they came out too. And they had several years of drought. And I know, I helped a cousin back there, Clifford Higer, for about a month while I was

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. 19. Rohner Family, p. 87. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/19-rohner-family/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 87 — Monograph #05:87
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