ESTHER M. ZIOCK CARROLL: I was born 30 March 1948 at Park Lane Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.  When my mother went into labor in the middle of the night daddy went out to start the car to take her to the hospital. However, the car (which was an old Terraplane) would not start.  So daddy hooked up the sidecar to his motorcycle, put pillows and blankets in it, then carried my mother out, put her in the side car & away they went!  Since it was 1:00 a.m. there was no traffic so daddy ran every red light there was to get us to the hospital.  Later, after my mother was admitted to the hospital, upon examination by a nurse, it was determined that I had not turned properly for birth & was going to come out feet first instead of head first like most other babies do.  I wanted to come out standing on my own two feet but they wouldn't let me do it & I was born by cicerian section between 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon - just in time for lunch!  When I came home from the hospital my great uncle, Theodore Ziock, brought us home in his limousine.

When we lived in Shrewsbury I walked several blocks to kindergarten every morning all by myself.  When I was about five or six we moved to Chesterfield, St. Louis County.  There I went to Chesterfield Elementry school.  I went to Crestview Junior High School at Glencoe. I was in the second graduating class to go through all four grades at the new Lafayette High School, Ellisville graduating in 1966.   In June 1969 I married GENE CARROLL at Antioch Baptist Church.  I lived behind the church cemetery and Gene lived just down the road from the church.  After we were married Gene and I then moved into a house across the street from Chesterfield Elementery school where we lived for five years.  Then we lived in Franklin County, Missouri for seven years before moving to Washington County in 1981 where we still reside.

Jobs I have held in my lifetime:  First job was when I was still in high school - I worked for the Ellisville Theatre.  Other jobs were at Pet Milk Company in St. Louis, Community Press Newspaper in Ellisville, Zayre Department Store in Ballwin, Central Hardware in Ballwin, Sears Department Store at Chesterfield Mall, Six Flags over Mid-America at Allenton, and teaching Continuing Education classes in genealogy at Mineral Area College at Park Hills (formerly known as Flat River), Missouri.  For more about me click here.