Memories of Ray's sister Muriel:
Ray was the second child in the Smith family. Mama always thought Ray was puny. I guess maybe he was. I have no memory of his ailing more than the rest. We were a very healthy family. Only Mama suffered terribly with rheumatism. They had no pain pills like now, and she just had to put up with the pain. Ray, being four years older that I, sort of watched over me, I do not believe he finished the eighth grade, and he worked at anything he could find. We used to go out on Saturday nights with another sister and brother, also named Smith, Ruth and Ed. Ed was my date and he was six years older. He had a row boat and he worked at the dry dock at St. Johns. He also had a houseboat he lived in. The four of us would go down there and we would cook up bacon and eggs and have a feast until our folks found out about it and made us stop. I was forbidden to go on Ed’s boat again. One Saturday night the four of us got in the rowboat and went down stream to Sauvies Island. We made a big fire and cooked wienies and had a great time. Going down was very easy, as the current carried us along. The idea was that we would wait till a steamer came along with a log tow (there was usually many of them), the boys would tie on to the log tow and get back up stream that way. So one night no steamer came and they had to tow all the way back. It was after three am before we got home and the folks were frantic.
Ray was so good to us younger ones, and one summer when I was about 13, he took Dick and I to see the ocean. We were that near and had never seen it. We had to go on a train.
In 1917, Ray married Cordelia Cross. He was drafted in to the army in World War 1, and I have a letter he wrote me from France. He and Cordelia had no children and they adopted a baby girl. After Ray died of Pneumonia in Seattle, the child’s parents took her back. Ray always had lots of friends. He loved animals and usually had two or three dogs around the place. Ruth reminded me of Ray in her love of cats and dogs.
Submitted by, Marie searching (#46905280)
Ray was the second child in the Smith family. Mama always thought Ray was puny. I guess maybe he was. I have no memory of his ailing more than the rest. We were a very healthy family. Only Mama suffered terribly with rheumatism. They had no pain pills like now, and she just had to put up with the pain. Ray, being four years older that I, sort of watched over me, I do not believe he finished the eighth grade, and he worked at anything he could find. We used to go out on Saturday nights with another sister and brother, also named Smith, Ruth and Ed. Ed was my date and he was six years older. He had a row boat and he worked at the dry dock at St. Johns. He also had a houseboat he lived in. The four of us would go down there and we would cook up bacon and eggs and have a feast until our folks found out about it and made us stop. I was forbidden to go on Ed’s boat again. One Saturday night the four of us got in the rowboat and went down stream to Sauvies Island. We made a big fire and cooked wienies and had a great time. Going down was very easy, as the current carried us along. The idea was that we would wait till a steamer came along with a log tow (there was usually many of them), the boys would tie on to the log tow and get back up stream that way. So one night no steamer came and they had to tow all the way back. It was after three am before we got home and the folks were frantic.
Ray was so good to us younger ones, and one summer when I was about 13, he took Dick and I to see the ocean. We were that near and had never seen it. We had to go on a train.
In 1917, Ray married Cordelia Cross. He was drafted in to the army in World War 1, and I have a letter he wrote me from France. He and Cordelia had no children and they adopted a baby girl. After Ray died of Pneumonia in Seattle, the child’s parents took her back. Ray always had lots of friends. He loved animals and usually had two or three dogs around the place. Ruth reminded me of Ray in her love of cats and dogs.
Submitted by, Marie searching (#46905280)
Memories of Ray's sister Muriel:
Ray was the second child in the Smith family. Mama always thought Ray was puny. I guess maybe he was. I have no memory of his ailing more than the rest. We were a very healthy family. Only Mama suffered terribly with rheumatism. They had no pain pills like now, and she just had to put up with the pain. Ray, being four years older that I, sort of watched over me, I do not believe he finished the eighth grade, and he worked at anything he could find. We used to go out on Saturday nights with another sister and brother, also named Smith, Ruth and Ed. Ed was my date and he was six years older. He had a row boat and he worked at the dry dock at St. Johns. He also had a houseboat he lived in. The four of us would go down there and we would cook up bacon and eggs and have a feast until our folks found out about it and made us stop. I was forbidden to go on Ed’s boat again. One Saturday night the four of us got in the rowboat and went down stream to Sauvies Island. We made a big fire and cooked wienies and had a great time. Going down was very easy, as the current carried us along. The idea was that we would wait till a steamer came along with a log tow (there was usually many of them), the boys would tie on to the log tow and get back up stream that way. So one night no steamer came and they had to tow all the way back. It was after three am before we got home and the folks were frantic.
Ray was so good to us younger ones, and one summer when I was about 13, he took Dick and I to see the ocean. We were that near and had never seen it. We had to go on a train.
In 1917, Ray married Cordelia Cross. He was drafted in to the army in World War 1, and I have a letter he wrote me from France. He and Cordelia had no children and they adopted a baby girl. After Ray died of Pneumonia in Seattle, the child’s parents took her back. Ray always had lots of friends. He loved animals and usually had two or three dogs around the place. Ruth reminded me of Ray in her love of cats and dogs.
Submitted by, Marie searching (#46905280)
Ray was the second child in the Smith family. Mama always thought Ray was puny. I guess maybe he was. I have no memory of his ailing more than the rest. We were a very healthy family. Only Mama suffered terribly with rheumatism. They had no pain pills like now, and she just had to put up with the pain. Ray, being four years older that I, sort of watched over me, I do not believe he finished the eighth grade, and he worked at anything he could find. We used to go out on Saturday nights with another sister and brother, also named Smith, Ruth and Ed. Ed was my date and he was six years older. He had a row boat and he worked at the dry dock at St. Johns. He also had a houseboat he lived in. The four of us would go down there and we would cook up bacon and eggs and have a feast until our folks found out about it and made us stop. I was forbidden to go on Ed’s boat again. One Saturday night the four of us got in the rowboat and went down stream to Sauvies Island. We made a big fire and cooked wienies and had a great time. Going down was very easy, as the current carried us along. The idea was that we would wait till a steamer came along with a log tow (there was usually many of them), the boys would tie on to the log tow and get back up stream that way. So one night no steamer came and they had to tow all the way back. It was after three am before we got home and the folks were frantic.
Ray was so good to us younger ones, and one summer when I was about 13, he took Dick and I to see the ocean. We were that near and had never seen it. We had to go on a train.
In 1917, Ray married Cordelia Cross. He was drafted in to the army in World War 1, and I have a letter he wrote me from France. He and Cordelia had no children and they adopted a baby girl. After Ray died of Pneumonia in Seattle, the child’s parents took her back. Ray always had lots of friends. He loved animals and usually had two or three dogs around the place. Ruth reminded me of Ray in her love of cats and dogs.
Submitted by, Marie searching (#46905280)
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