William M. Sanderlin, Layton, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, 27 June 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 457

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THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM M. SANDERLIN. TODAY IS THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF JUNE, TWO-THOUSAND-TWO. THIS IS PART OF THE SAVING THE LEGACY PROJECT. WE ARE IN MR. SANDERLIN'S HOME IN LAYTON, UTAH. I AM WINSTON ERICKSON. WE: Now Bill, where and when were you born? WS: [inaudible] 1502 Hays Street, San Antonio, Texas, nineteen-twenty-one. WE: You were born in twenty-one. Who were your parents? WS: My mother's name was Georgia Murray Scott, and my dad's name was Robert Allen Sanderlin. And they got married in nineteen-twenty, and I came along in twenty-one. WE: Had they been in San Antonio for a long time? WS: Neither one of them is there now. WE: But were they there before-is that where they- WS: No, oh maybe a year, I don't know for sure. Not very long. WE: Where did they come from? WS: Just a little tiny town just outside of San Antonio called Sabinal. WE: Were they both from there? WS: I'm not sure where my mother was from, but I think all of our relations are right in one little area called Sabinal and Uvalde and, oh there's one or two other little tiny places that ... More or less, it's all farm country, and these little tiny towns just have more or less a store where you go and get your supplies on Saturday, or whenever you want to. WE: What did your father do for an occupation? WS: Well, shortly after I was born in nineteen-twenty-one- up until that time he was a milkman, delivering milk. He put in an application to go work for the railroad in 1