HUBBARD:  This is the afternoon of June 4^th 1958 and this is Douglas Hubbard (1) Park Naturalist Yosemite National Park. We are recording this afternoon an interview with Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Hatch-Antink (2) concerning her experiences in the Yosemite region also present are Mrs. ….. Stauntin (3) the daughter of Mrs. Antink and her husband R.W Stauntin (4) .

ANTINK:  Uhh my father came out here on a boat from Maine in a …… vessel and uh they sailed around Cape Cod which took them 6 weeks and uh 6 months rather and uh I lived in San Francisco and sold the vessel and uh began uh ……….. which they did for some of the time. Then they started uh some of them on what I understand was the London  Bridge and uh then tried to build a home there or a house and uh needed the lumber to do the building which was crude and uh in 10 years he went back to Maine and met my mother and she came out then by the way of ...…… and uh they had this home that was uh up in the mountains Beyond oh uh London Bar and uh they uh lived just on up in Merced where the old stage coach came up that way. They had to stay at our house ...... Everybody ......... there at night and they had to stay there and they kept putting on rooms and putting on rooms until they had almost a hotel on their hands although they didn’t call it a hotel. And uh they uh had to come down here to uh Yosemite Valley by horse back all the tourists of that day which was ........ .......... was one of them and uh Benjamin Franklins mother was one of them. And uh she left an apple in her room and my mother stuffed that apple, put cloves in that apple and we had it for years and years even after I was grown up. And uh I guess I better give their names huh. My fathers name was James H. Hatch. And my uncle my favorite uncles name was White, Dexter White and uh they ran that saw mill for some years. And then for some unforeseen thing I think something like the timber giving out something of that kind they uh abandoned it and left this part of the country. And uh I was born in 1872 and I have 2 sisters older than I. We went from here .......... then don’t know much about it.

4. Something about the uh doctor coming to take care of your mother at the time when we were coming in through the valley today. Why don’t you tell Mr. Hubbard that.

ANTINK:  Well uh it was 75 miles that the doctor had to come to get into the city and uh so I had a little brother out there the second child and uh when he came, horse back he was not in any condition to fix up anybody so consequently I had a little brother buried up there somewhere. He was inebriated in other words.

HUBBARD:  So was there a special name given to ...........

ANTINK:  Well uh ........ called Fighting Hatchet. Fighting Hatchet. And uh

HUBBARD:  .............then it would have been Clark’s Station .....

ANTINK:  yeah most likely

HUBBARD:  ........... that sound familiar 

General Information:

Interviewer:  Hubbard, Douglas

Interviewee: Abbott, Austin

Name of Tape: Elizabeth Jane Hatch Antink: Parents Ran Stage Stop (antink_e_0).

Note: CD says "Daughter of Stage Stop Owners" (AM 5.20.09)

When: 6/4/1958

Transcriber: Naomi

Transcribed: 1/9/08

Transcriber’s note: “THIS TAPE IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND”