Tag: Camp Crowder

• Notes from the heartland (Part 2: Kansas and Missouri)

  

  It’s our second day on the road to Fort Worth, and Spence and I are traveling through the rolling hills of the Kansas and Missouri borderlands. Yesterday I told you a little about my 3x great-grandmother’s brothers, John and George Hitz, and how they settled in Iowa with their mother Maria Tontz Hitz after the…

  Jesse Rude

  November 5, 2025

  Family history

  Camp Crowder, emigration, Hitz, immigration, Kansas, migration, milling, Missouri, Neosho, Newtonia, Reiner, Signal Corps, Smith, socialism, The U.S. Civil War, Tontz, Wells, World War II

• Gene Smith’s Signal Corps service: Part 1 – Camp Crowder and Camp Wood (March 1943 – February 1944)

  

  My grandma Phyllis described in a letter the heartbreaking moment when she and the family dropped my grandpa Gene off at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. They wandered the premises for about two hours, watching some recruits do target practice and hoping they might catch a glimpse of Gene.  “When we got back to the car frozen…

  Jesse Rude

  May 14, 2024

  Family history

  3110th Signal Service battalion, Camp Crowder, Camp Wood, Eugene Smith, Fort Sheridan, Neosho, Phyllis Smith, Signal Corps, Smith, World War II