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SY: And so your grandfather, then, came and worked as a truck farmer.

NG: Well it said, I think she also kind of, she was, I could picture this, where they would have these farms and laborers, and she worked as a cook. She said they're both contract farmers, but at the one point I thought they said she worked as a cook.

SY: Was she, that was, was she a talented cook, as you remember?

NG: I don't remember.

SY: But I think most of the women probably, probably helped out in some way like that.

NG: Yeah.

SY: And they, did they settle there for a period of time, do you know?

NG: Yeah, it said that she, they were still there when their first son was born, so they must've been... yeah, it said they leased their own land. And he did not, he didn't, it was, he did not participate in a partnership with that other Issei farmer, but maybe he was his sponsor. No, they don't name... oh no, no, that's right, 'cause her daughter was born first. Yeah, she worked as a cook.

SY: Her daughter was the, the...

NG: The first child was a daughter, and she was born in 1913.

SY: And how many children did they have altogether?

NG: So altogether they had seven.

SY: Seven. And so --

NG: One died when he was ten.

SY: So there were only six left.

NG: Yes.

SY: And can you tell me who, can you go over all, each one of those people?

NG: Right. So the eldest one was a daughter, Hatsuno, and then came my, the eldest son was Shigeo, and the one that died... I'll have to find that later.

SY: That's okay.

NG: [Laughs] And then my mom, Tomiko.

SY: Tomiko.

NG: And then Seiji, but they called him Bo, my uncle Bo. And then my uncle Joe, he's the only one with an English name because, Joseph, because he was born in Saint Joseph's Hospital. And then my youngest, the youngest auntie is Yoshiko.

SY: Very interesting. And they, and all of their last name -- I don't know if you told us your grandparents' last --

NG: Hamamoto.

SY: Hamamoto, so they all had the name Hamamoto 'til they got married, even the women.

NG: Right, right.

SY: And your --

NG: And my grandfather was Hamamoto, they were both Hamamotos 'cause they're cousins.

SY: Right. [Laughs] So they both --

NG: On that side.

SY: Right.

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