Hi, I remember as a boy that dad, John Syers, and Mack Ewer's dad had the best Model T pickups in the county after many had worn out a Model A and a Model B Ford and had graduated to 60 hp V8's Dad skipped the Model A and B stages. "CAP" STEWART RAN A SHOP ON South Graham Street (Hico and Glen Rose Hiway) at the old low bridge in the Bosque flood plain. CAP was our model T Ford mechanic , he and a Mr. Lockhart. Back then, if the river was over the road and you were in a V-8 you just turned around and went back home. High clearance vehicles like Model Ts and old Chevys could go through gates and mud roads and get to Stephenville on the Fort Worth Highway, but might not get home if it flooded too. In 1954 or 5 they were launching boats one block east of the court house to rescue people from houses that had never flooded before. (West of Jake & Dorothy's Cafe) when the water broke the 75 year old record marked on a tree. It was 20 feet bove the newer bridge still in use. I lost a pontiac and a Buick and all my books and notes a week before finals at Tarleton and almost lost me. You could not swim that water because of the downstream barbed wire which would catch you. My garage apartment tilted into a pecan tree and Tarleton students pulled me out with rubber hose. The Fire Dept. would not come- they thought the water would go down. Several cows, alive and dead, went downstream including some of Dr. Vance Terrell's Brown Swiss Cattle, found half way to Hico. 3 of us were hospitalized that night. Two were on top of a Milk truchk hanging on to the nailed down tarp, sitting on the cab for a few hours. They said they were in knee deep water when the truck died and they saw a wall of water almost straight up , looked over 6 feet high coming at them, on the Huckaby Highway. They were loaded with full milk cans so the truck did not move. God was merciful. I was dating Jeannie Riley of Clyde, Texas and she brought her parents to see me in the hospital. Her roommate's fiance (Her roommoate was Sandra Hull of Irian, Texas) was one who helped rescue me. , but my identity was unknown to him at the moment. Right away her parents suspected she had not been studying and working in the library all the time. We were married that summer and moved to NTSU Denton . We now have 2 children and 4 grandchildren. Cap Stewart's son has a building on the east loop now which was a parts store and attached garage. Seems like Uncle Emmett Carey deliverred Cap Stewart Neper's Desdemona (Hogtown) gas for a 2 pump overhead glass bowl pump station. Ira Stewart married mon's first cousin, Cloye(?) Stone. He had an Erath County ranch and was a school Superintendent at Penelope, Hill County , Texas. for several years after I started teaching. She and mom were across the hall from each other in Stephenville Nursing Home, 1980's. Take care Charles Wyly