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Ken: So, you went to, uh, you went to school in Cedar Park as a young girl?
Henry: Yeah, I went there at Whitestone.
Ken: Where was Whitestone located?
Henry: Whitestone is, there's a Mexican place there. It's where 1431 connects with, uh, 183
Ken: Yes
Henry: On the west side
Ken: Yes
Henry: There's a Mexican food place, and, uh, at that time it was Whitestone School. I started there
when I was five years old.
Ken: How many grades went to school there?
Henry: Uh, I believe we had seven. And then we went to Leander. And, uh, of course, I graduated from
there. And my sisters, two sisters and a brother graduated from there, so, we've been around a long
time.
Ken: You have, good! Well this is wonderful because you're the first person I've talked to from Cedar
Park. And I've talked to people from Liberty Hill and around, but, uh, Cedar Park seems to be, have been
the center of the, of the cedar industry back in the '40s and '50s.
Henry: Well, I think we had more cedar here than they did anywhere else. And, uh, the first cedar yard
was around - I made myself some notes so I wouldn't forget what, what I was gona tell ya. Around
1937, owned by a Mr. John Jackson.
Ken: All right.
Henry: And it was, uh, somewhere in the area close to New Hope Church.
Ken: Yes
Henry: And there were not very many people around here, in Cedar Park. Uh, Artie's mother and father
lived there, but at one time there were eighteen people who lived there. And the man did a good
business and that's when the other cedar choppers decided they'd start cutting cedar. Like I said, my
husband worked at the rock quarry when we married. But then, uh, a couple years later he started
cuttin' cedar. He had a truck with a little flatbed on it and he could go out there and stay three hours
and earn more money - he could make seventy five dollars in about three hours, cuttin' cedar. [later
called and said $/day wrong. cut 60-70 posts 6x4" .
Ken: Is that right!
Henry: Yeah. So, everybody started cuttin' cedar.
