J.. A Fatal Accident at Govier's Mill

Bob Zybach: When you stayed home would you do much reading?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Listen to the radio?

Eugene Glender: Well, some. There wasn't much on radios then either.

Bob Zybach: How about painting or

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Work with clay?

Eugene Glender: No. No, when I was young I'd just go out ... usually hunting or fishing. Or tromping around the mountains.

Bob Zybach: Climbing trees?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Did you ever find any Indian signs or artifacts in this area?

Eugene Glender: No, I never have seen any.

Bob Zybach: Okay, so no sign at all then?

Eugene Glender: Well, as far as I know there isn't.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

J. A Fatal Accident at Govier's Mill

Bob Zybach: What was the name of the family that lived here?

Eugene Glender: Studach's [Jacob].

Bob Zybach: What mileage are we on here?

Jan Meranda: [Jan] 611.9.

Bob Zybach: Eleven point nine. What kind offamily was that? How many kids?

Eugene Glender: Let's see. They had three, two boys [John and Alfred] and a girl.

Bob Zybach: Pretty girl?

Eugene Glender: Well, sure [laughs].

Bob Zybach: Now you said there was a bridge went to their house. Where did the bridge go?

Eugene Glender: The same place the house did, I guess.

Bob Zybach: I mean, where was it located?

Eugene Glender: Right here.

Bob Zybach: Right where there's a deer trail there or cow trail.

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Where was their ... and the bridge, what would it cross -- this ditch here?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And so this was ditched out about the same at that time?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, it was a deep ditch through here as long as I can remember.

Bob Zybach: Did they have any problem with flooding from the creek here?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: They raised bees?

Eugene Glender: No. The only bees I ever saw around here was when some guy from Albany brought some and put them down on our place. That Hines,. Ralph Hines, was a honey man then.

Bob Zybach: Would he bring them up eveiy year to pollinate your crop or

Eugene Glender: No, he'd just bring them down to have a place to put them.

Bob Zybach: Would he give you any honey for the deal?

Eugene Glender: I think he gave us honey once in a while.

Bob Zybach: The Studach's, what was their house, how far to our ... to the west was it located?

Eugene Glender: Well, just right there where those trees are. Just this side of them. See, what seventy-five feet.

Bob Zybach: Was it a large house?

Eugene Glender: No. No, it was just a small house.

Bob Zybach: Is that on the map there?

Eugene Glender: It was just a plain board house.

Bob Zybach: And they called it the Studach 's house?

Eugene Glender: Yeah. They were the first ones that I knew of that lived there.

Bob Zybach: Did they build it?

Eugene Glender: I couldn't say that. I don't know.

Bob Zybach: Did they live here the whole time you were here?

Eugene Glender: No, he got killed and then ... a [Albert] Zundt lived there for awhile. And then there was some others ... I can't remember the names of those that lived in there after that.

Bob Zybach: How did Studach get killed?

Eugene Glender: Saw mill.

Bob Zybach: Which sawmill?

Eugene Glender: Govier's [Alvie].

Bob Zybach: Govier 's saw mill?

Eugene Glender: Yeah. Had a log roll over him, I guess.

Bob Zybach: What happened to his family after that?

Eugene Glender: They moved to Corvallis.

Bob Zybach: Wife remariy or

Eugene Glender: As far as I know she never did. I went to [Corvallis] High School with the kids there then.

Bob Zybach: Did they have insurance in those days?

Eugene Glender: Not that I know of.

Bob Zybach: So they had kind of a tough time after their dad died?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Jan Meranda: [Jan] What kind of a name is Studach?

Eugene Glender: Swiss.

Bob Zybach: So, were there very many Swiss families here?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Studach 's were the only ones?

Eugene Glender: Yes.

Bob Zybach: Was he an immigrant, did he have a Swiss accent?

Eugene Glender: Oh, gosh, I don't know. I was just a little ... wasn't very big there when he got killed so I ... I never, didn't really know him that well.

Bob Zybach: Did anybody get blamed for that or anything, was that big news around here?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Just a bad accident?

Eugene Glender: Just something that happened.

Bob Zybach: Did they have an orchard through here?

Eugene Glender: Just the trees that are here now.

Bob Zybach: How many acres?

Eugene Glender: Well, let's see, it ran from there over ... well, right up there's the other line of the fence, and another one was on Wiles', and then it went up here and joined our place. What is there? Forty acres in there or something like that.

Bob Zybach: So it went from Wiles and then forty acres, or Studach 's, and then after they moved out then Zundt moved in and was that a family?

Eugene Glender: No, he was a bachelor.

Bob Zybach: Bachelor? Did he work in a mill?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, he worked there for Govier's, too.

Bob Zybach: How long after Studdock got killed, how long did the family stay here?

Eugene Glender: I don't think they were here very long.

Bob Zybach: Just left almost immediately?

Eugene Glender: Well, they didn't have nothing ... they couldn't live out here so

Bob Zybach: After Zundt left, then a few other people moved in?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And then was this building still here when Camp Adair

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: So it was destroyed along with the other buildings when they put in Camp Adair?

Eugene Glender: Yeah. Everything that was on the main camp was torn down.

Bob Zybach: How about did they have a barn here?

Eugene Glender: No, he just had a little shop.

Bob Zybach: Just a little shop. What kind of a shop wa it?

Eugene Glender: I don't even know what he had it for, whether it was just a place to park a car or what it was.

Bob Zybach: Were there any buildings off here on these

Eugene Glender: I never did see anything over in there.

Bob Zybach: Would this still be Wiles' property over here?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: So, okay.

Eugene Glender: That goes up to where these trees start.