In addition to the store, her father was in the cattle business. When the time came for a roundup on the open prairie, all the cattlemen would join in the roundup. Florida was all open range in hose days and not a fence was in sight on the prairie. The cattlemen would range for miles gathering all the cattle. Then, they would separate them, and each owner would claim his own property.

When they had a roundup, they’d all go out together. They’d take an ox wagon and carry their rations in the ox wagon. They’d be out for eight or ten days sometimes. All the men who owned cattle would go.

The cook was the man who drove the ox team. The cook that worked for the Holmes was a man named Walter Rhymes. He’d sit up there on the seat and he’d slump. They’d come in (the store) and they’d pay my daddy a quarter a dozen for biscuits. I’d have to make a lard can full of biscuits. I wasn’t very big and I’d stand on a little chair that I had and made the biscuits.

They would carry them for about 10 days. Usually, they carried a cook along to cook for them. They would bake biscuits then in a Dutch oven over the fire. They also carried sweet potatoes, she said.