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Indiana Red Cross
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Carroll Rush was one of the Jeffersonville residents who stayed and volunteered as a rescue worker during the 1937 Ohio River Valley Flood.&...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Miss Frances Beard spent her adult life teaching at Port Fulton School. In her earliest years, the school served as a Refugee Center fo...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Interview with one of the 500 Clarksville, Indiana residents who remained behind and rode out the flood in one of the 2 shelters set&#x...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Edwin Coots, local undertaker and county coroner, was asked to take over as acting mayor during the weeks of the 1937 Ohio River Valley...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
An interview with George Bere who was age 33 at the time of the 1937 Ohio River Flood. At the time he worked at his brothers&...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Dorothy Phillips and her husband lived in a rented home in Jeffersonville at the time of the flood. Instead of leaving, Dorothy signed ...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Velma Dickerson was a housewife living in Clarksville, Indiana at the time of the 1937 Flood. For a short time the family sheltered at&...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
At the time of the flood, C. Kenneth Meloy was a high school senior and paperboy. During the flood he helped set up tents at ...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Oral History interview with Norris Emerson Mode. Mr. and Mrs. Mode were living on Maple Street in 1937. High water forced them from the...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
The wife of a city council member, Catherine Richardson describes the tense hours leading up to the Ohio River flooding the city of Jef...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Girard Vorgang was one of the young men who worked the boats during the 1937 flood. He and his friend rowed supplies into Jeffersonvill...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
16 years of age at the time of the flood, Warren Volmer recounts his experiences helping his father, helping the Red Cross deliver coal...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Arthur L. Smith, closed his auto repair shop during the flood and volunteered himself and his boat to rescue people trapped by the floo...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Barbara Keller Miller and her husband operated F. C. [Falls City] Electric Company on Spring Street in Jeffersonville at the time of&#x...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Ruth Richardson Frederick was 15 at the time of the flood. She describes her life in Jeffersonville and Port Fulton and the devastation ...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
A high school senior at the time of the flood, Ruth Susan Nagel Vogang tells of her adventures as she and her sister were separate...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Adam Wallace was a young boy living with his mother and other relatives at the time of the 1937 Flood. He recalls being sent to&#x...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
Rev. Franklin Lahr, his wife, and his small son had to leave their home but, they did not leave Jeffersonville, Indiana, during the 193...
Jeffersonville Township Public Library -
View from wooden bridge to Island Park showing the park flooded. Child standing on bridge. Two men walking in the water. Shoes and knap...
Elkhart County Historical Society Collections
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