ANNA HIRALES GARCIA 

My grandfather had a little burro and delivered wood in Bisbee. They lived on Jones Hill. My dad was born in l900 ... in Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico. He came (to Bisbee) as a very young man and started working right away with the mines. He got silicosis from working underground. My dad worked at all the old mines here. My dad was not an American citizen when he came here. It was hard for him to hold a job. 

When (my grandmother) decided to marry my grandfather she was disowned. He was a simple miner and her mother had higher hopes for her. (My grandparents) came by horse ... and settled in Cananea. That's where my mother was born, in Cananea, (in) 1903. Actually, she is not the oldest. She is the third in line of ten children, but she was the oldest daughter. My mother says that my grandmother was a seamstress and when she would get paid in gold she sewed it into the hems of their dresses so no one would know how much money they were bringing into the United States. (My grandmother) was born in California and she was a citizen, so when she came back the United States recognized that. 

I was born in April of 1940 at the bottom of Youngblood Hill in the house my mother still lives in. My neighborhood was such a wonderful place. I think everyone should be born in a neighborhood like that. You knew everybody and they knew you. I have a lot of wonderful memories. There was something for us to do all the time. I would roller skate up and down Brewery Gulch. We would go rent donkeys for 25 cents on a Saturday or Sunday. When the water would run down the Gulch we would play in it. There was wonderful memories of going up Kite Hill .at the top of OK Street. We would take kites. My Dad would make them out of the funny papers and get little boards and make them. Our house - to me it was a wonderful house.

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