Maggie McKenzie played by Linda Watkins The Journey Widowed woman with heart problems who drives to the seashore (with John-Boy's help) to remember her roots in Scotland and her anniversary to husband Michael (played in retrospect by Earl Hamner) The couples' favorite restaurant at the seashore is the Mermaid Restaurant. When married by the ship's captain that brought her to the U.S., he gave her a 1879 twenty-dollar gold piece as a wedding present; she gives it to John-Boy on her death-bed