The following is the oral history of the February 2011 Living Treasure Eulene Texas as recorded and transcribed by Nancy Theiss.  The Living Treasure program is a joint program of the Oldham Era newspaper and the Oldham County History Center.

I was born Millie Euline McIntyre in Burkesville, Ky on March 5, 1936.  I had one brother and three sisters, I was the second child.  I was three when we left Burkesville and moved to Fern Creek and my father ran a vegetable farm and my sister went to Fern Creek School.  I would walk with her to meet the bus and wait for her to get home in the afternoon.  We moved to Rose Island Road on Stape and Belle Trigg’s farm.  It was a large farm and I can remember that we would have to walk out a mile or so to meet the school bus everyday and passed this old church that still stands there today, there is a graveyard beside it.  I went to Liberty School.  One of my jobs on the Trigg farm was to take the milk jug up for my family, up a big hill and put it in the spring to keep it cold and then bring down the cold jug that I brought up the day before.  Sometimes it would get dark as I was coming down that hill and I would get scared!!  I was about seven.

I loved Mr. and Mrs. Trigg and they raised orchard grass.  I worked with my Mom on the farm.  I would drag bales of orchard grass to my Mother and she would stack the orchard grass and she was paid as a hired hand. 

From there we moved to Westport, at the big mansion, Bro Ballard farm.  My dad was one of the managers and the overseer was John Mings, he lived in the room beside us, part of the house.  The house was the big house, it was enormous known as Hurricane Hall and now it’s torn down.  We lived there!  I was about nine and I drove a Farmall tractor for Dad when he baled hay.

In the house on the third floor there was a dungeon for slaves.  When we kids were playing we would push each other down there. - there wasn’t any windows-it was bigger than a closet.  The plaster on the walls had big rosettes that would fall and sound awful.  I had nightmares about that room of being pushed in there. And on the top of the house, there was a look-out tower- you could see Indiana and Kentucky-it was like you were on top of the world.

There was a big back porch on the back of the house with a dirt bottom where they kept firewood and stuff and every time it rained there was a big red spot there.  I asked Mr. John Mings, “What makes it like that when it rains?” and Mr. Mings said that is where they cut the slaves head off and it scared me to death!  That was the worst tale I ever heard in my life.

Across the field lived Mr. and Mrs. Goldstein and they liked my Dad and Mother so much they had us over all the time.  Mrs. Goldstein would cook the best Jewish food- it was wonderful, she cooked this wonderful beef with potatoes and carrots.