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Show INTERVIEW: Mabel Dry and Kay Fowler August 8, 1967 Page 7 F: Do you remember someone around here named Young Williams? D: Yes. F: Was he Toney Tillohash's adopted father or something? D: Yes, he was his relation. F: He was. D: I guess that was his mother's relation-something-cousins. F: Did Toney's parents die when he was real young? D: Who? F: Toney Tillohash's parents die when he was real young or something? D: Yes. Then he stayed with that Young Williams and his family. F: What happened to his parents, do you know? What did they die of? D: They died. His mother died-was sick. F: Oh, and his father? D: I don't know his father. F: So he lived with Young Williams' family then? D: He used to live with his grandmother. F: With his grandmother? D: Yes, that used to be named Tillohash. He is named by his grandmother. F: Oh, does that Tillohash mean something in Paiute?. D: Yes. She used to say when she went down to--when her and her husband went down to-someplace down in Moapa, they killed a cow and they just give him the tail of the cow. Just the tail part from here. That's what she was saying. Say they just |
