Soap Creek Valley · Person

Velma Carter Rawie

Velma Carter Rawie— narrator, co-author, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.

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Provenance

Dates: 1916 – unknown
Work: farm wife and dairy farmer; store clerk; homemaker
Home site: Wells, Benton County, Oregon (born there); later Corvallis, Oregon
Interview focus: Pioneer settlement
Where this comes from: #10 Velma Carter Rawie, title page, narrator profile; the 1999 thesis, p. 39, Table 4 (informant profile); #10 Velma Carter Rawie, p. 81, contributors / front matter credit; SCARC OH 006 finding aid: interview dates and cassette counts; #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner, p. 11, printed back index; #10 Velma Carter Rawie, p. 1, p. 34, p. 56, p. 80, p. 81, p. 109, printed back index; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, p. 21, p. 22, p. 23, p. 39, p. 46, p. 47, p. 49, p. 61, p. 62, p. 73, p. 76, p. 124, p. 136, p. 143, p. 154, p. 191, p. 199, p. 230, p. 237, people mentioned in the thesis; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, Table 1 citation rule: cited as (Rawie 1994), referenced as (Zybach 1994a), #10; the 1989 Auto Tour, p. 2, p. 24, people named in the Auto Tour; the 1999 thesis, p. 235, p. 236, p. 237, Appendix A, Table A.1 (monograph numbers and titles) and Table A.2 (page counts)
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Plotted at Wells, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.

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March 19, 1991 — the home of Velma Carter Rawie, Corvallis, Oregon Interviewer: Bob Zybach · photo-elicitation

#5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner p. 11
#10 Velma Carter Rawie Narrator: Velma Carter Rawie p. 1, p. 34, p. 56, p. 80, p. 81, p. 109

1825-11-06 — Mr. [Tolbert] Carter was born in Missouri, November 6, 1825, of English ancestry. source · Before 1844
1845 — I am the great granddaughter of Tolbert and Martha Angeline Carter, who were. . . came out in 1845 I believe it was and settled on a Donation Land Claim in the Palestine. . . source · 1845–1859
1846-03 — In early life he moved to Illinois and started from Morgan county in that state to Oregon in March of 1846. source · 1845–1859
1852-08-13 — He was married to Mrs. Martha Angeline Bileui on August 13, 1852. source · 1845–1859
1894 — It would be in the same category at this age of the dates of these, letters like 1894. source · 1891–1920
1917 — 'The flu epidemic began in 1917 and is commonly known as the Flu Epidemic of 1918 (see Neil Vanderburg, Monograph #8 and Velma Carter Rawie, Monograph #10). source · 1891–1920
1941-12-07 — Well now wait, Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941. source · 1941–1950
1962 — Oh yeah, we had a grade A dairy here and I milked cows here until 1962 I guess. source · 1951–1970

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