Jon Hammond

"I was born in Cummings Valley on December 21, 1907. My Dad was a cowboy named Anselmo Campos and my mother Mary Ocana Campos. Every Sunday in the summer there was a barbecue or something going on in Cummings Valley. A different farmer would have one every Sunday. We didn't go to church, because all we had was a horse and buggy, and by the time we got there church would be over and the priest would be gone. We started school in Cummings Valley but it snowed so much in the wintertime that school was closed half the time. We'd go down the Sheeptrail to Bakersfield in the buggy. It took most of the day to get there." - Mary Rodriguez