1945 A Year to Remember
Part VI, Finding the Rivers, Marji Smock Stewart: 1945 My final year of high school (1944-1945) was at Owensboro Senior High. It was not especially outstanding. I felt older than…
River Pilot, Air Pilot
Part V, Finding the rivers, Marji Smock Stewart: River Pilot, Air Pilot Let me explain a bit about working on the river. The crew had to stay on 24 hours…
Smocks on the Ohio River
Part IV, Finding the rivers, Marji Smock Stewart: Back to the Ohio River We left Texas in the summer of 1938, heading back to the river. We must have looked…
Smocks in Gladewater TX
Part III, Finding the Rivers, by Marji Smock Stewart: Gladewater TX In 1936 we moved to East Texas, to Gladewater where oil had been discovered. Uncle Ben [McDonald] and his…
Smocks at Bagnell Dam
Part II, Finding the Rivers, by Marji Smock Stewart: Bagnell Dam MO I regret that I did not ask Daddy to tell me about taking the Sarah Mac to Missouri.…
Monroe Smock, Kentucky
Dr. Marji Smock Stewart, my late mother-in-law, wrote her family story for her son and grandsons. She called it "Finding the Rivers." She shared it with other family members too…