Smock Family Tree 2
My late mother-in-law, Marji Smock Stewart, did this genealogy of the Smock family. I have added to it, and it has become too large to put on one page. So…
Cream Cheese Spread
My mother-in-law made us a book of family recipes. One is her mother's recipe for cream cheese, olives and nuts sandwich spread. That looks good, I'd think every time I…
Lum and Sarah McDonald
By Marji Smock Stewart, Finding the Rivers. The conclusion of her mother's parents Lum and Sarah (Brogan) McDonald's story. My grandfather Lum owned a small farm near Curdsville KY and…
Sarah Brogan McDonald
By Marji Smock Stewart in Finding the Rivers. This is the maternal side of her family history, centring on Sarah Brogan. My grandmother was Sarah Clementine Brogan McDonald. She was…
35 Cent Grilled Cheese
Part VII, Finding the Rivers, Marji Stewart: Grilled cheese fortunes Our trip out west in 1946 was a real honeymoon. We were gone a month or longer and made some…
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…
Smock Family Tree
My late mother-in-law, Marji Smock Stewart, did the work on this genealogy of the Smock family from Kentucky. That's her in the photo above, age 9 in 1936. The wedding…
Tamale Pie
With salad or garlic bread on the side, tamale pie makes a perfect winter's night meal. It's a Tex-Mex type of shepherd's pie or baked polenta with tomato sauce. My…
Entertaining with ease – or not
Entertaining at Home With Ease is a book co-written by my late mother-in-law, Dr. Marjorie Stewart. Her main point about dinner parties is make it easy for yourself and that,…