PARTIAL DEMOGRAPHY OF CRANE COUNTY IN 1930

Table Seven, Page 1, Residents of Company Houses
Houses 184-314, south of east/west road

Houses provided many Gulf Oil Corporation employees are in this section, but it is impossible to determine which employees lived in the original Gulf Camp, which lived in "tent city," which lived in isolated houses provided pumpers, which lived in bunkhouses, and which lived in houses owned by the McElroy ranch. There are clues. When the rent is between $10 and $5 it is usually a company bunkhouse. When a series of single men lived in the same numbered dwelling, with unknown rent, one can assume it is a bunkhouse. The census taker did not number dwellings as they existed in a block or street. From what is known about occupants of the Gulf camp, the census taker obviously numbered houses according to the time she found occupants available to provide the information. She, therefore, might proceed to the house next door, or the house across the street. From 1930 until the camp was moved in 1936, many changes occurred. Many Gulf employees living in the town of Crane or in "tent city" in 1930 had been transferred to other cities. Many employees occupying one of the smaller "shotgun" houses in 1930 had moved to one of the larger houses by 1936. The following are families as they appear in the 1930 census. When the age of a child is less than a year in April, a * appears.

House#	Residents	Relation	Rent	Sex	Age	Marriage	Occupation
198	Horace C. Harris Clemmie Horace C., Jr. Stanley Edgar J.	Head wife son son son	$7.50	M F M M M	30 28 6 5 *	m m	Clerk, Oil and Gas none
199	Kenneth S. Blackford	Head	Unk	M	22	s	Clerk, Production Gulf
200	Frances B. Hughes May F. James R. Patricia E. Raymond S. Paul E.	Head wife son dau son son	$7.50	M F M M M	35 34 9 6 4 *	m m	Operator Telegraph none
201	Robert H. Grupe	Head	Unk	M	36	s	Clerk, Oil & Gas
202	J. Luther Hines Jeanie Ola Findley	Head wife Roomer	$7.50	M F F	63 54 34	m m s	Bookkeeper, Boarding H. Manager, Boarding H. Waitress, Boarding H.
203	R. V. Wilson Lela R. V., Jr. N. Adair Mary B.	Head wife son dau dau	$7.50	M F M F F	30 30 10 8 6	m m	Foreman, Oilfield none
204	J. Dale Lewis Iva V.	Head wife	5	M F	22 18	m m	Worker, Oilfield none
205	Norman Lott Lellie Betty Lou	Head wife dau	5	M F F	32 25 1	m m	Pumper, Oilfield none
206	John F. Hays Mildren A. Bobby B. Trice	Head wife step-dau	5	M F F	30 24 8	m m	Stationary Engineer, Oilfield none
207	Mabrey E. Noble Russell Ruby L.	Head wife dau	5	M F F	30 24 8	m m	Auto Mechanic, Oilfield none
208	William W. Agnew Thelma	Head wife	10	M F	29 27	m m	Physician none
209	Batson , Ethel H. Mattie R. Maxey E. Mattie Krone	Head wife son mother-in-law	10	M F M F	33 31 1 54	m m m	Attendant Hospital, Oilfield none none

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