Happy 100th Birthday, Uncle Woodrow!
March 27, 2014
Wish you'd lived long enough that your great-nieces and nephews had known you.
Woodrow was the youngest of ten siblings:
Willie E. Smith - 3/18/1885-6/14/1971
(his mother was Mary F. Jones Smith and was born in Arkansas)
All other children were born in Louisiana to Tennessee Elisabeth "Lizzie" Jones Smith.
Edwin Alfonzo Smith 8/11/1893-8/22/1970
Allie O Smith Gaston 10/1/1896-8/30/1994
Lela M. Smith Hale 8/28/1898-10/28/1984
Betty Virginia Smith Morgan 12/16/1900- 6/2/1947
Ruby Smith Hammons 4/9/1903-9/30/1994
Leslie Ivy Smith 5/28/1906-3/23/1983
Selma R. Smith Roark 5/22/1909-11/4/1984
Sybil Katherine Smith Chandler 10/16/1911-3/29/2011
Woodrow O. Smith 3/27/1914-9/20/1932
Woodrow's father Wiley died just over a year later on December 4.
Obituary in The Monroe News-Star
Monroe, Louisiana
23 Sep 1932, Fri • Page 13
FUNERAL HELD
EROS. Sept. 23 (Special)—Funeral services for Woodrow Smith, 18, who died at the home of his parents In Indian Village, near here, were held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock by the Rev. J. M. Moore of Ruston. and Rev. R. H. Staples of Marion. Burial was in Indian Village cemetery.
Woodrow had been sick for three years. If he had continued going to school he would have been a senior in this year’s class of the Eros high school.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. (Elijah Wiley & Lizzie) Smith of Indian Village; six sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Alice (Allie) Gaston and Miss Sybil Smith of Indian Village, Mrs. Elmo (Lela) Hale of Calhoun, Mrs. Gus (Ruby) Hammons, Mrs. Lee (Betty) Morgan, and Miss Selma Smith of Fairbanks and Leslie, E. A. (Edwin) and E W. (Willie) Smith of Indian Village; a host of friends and other relatives.
Contributor: D Donald (48847170)
I'm Woodrow's great-niece. Please contact me if you have more information or corrections.
Original link to parents provided by: Eddy Smith
March 27, 2014
Wish you'd lived long enough that your great-nieces and nephews had known you.
Woodrow was the youngest of ten siblings:
Willie E. Smith - 3/18/1885-6/14/1971
(his mother was Mary F. Jones Smith and was born in Arkansas)
All other children were born in Louisiana to Tennessee Elisabeth "Lizzie" Jones Smith.
Edwin Alfonzo Smith 8/11/1893-8/22/1970
Allie O Smith Gaston 10/1/1896-8/30/1994
Lela M. Smith Hale 8/28/1898-10/28/1984
Betty Virginia Smith Morgan 12/16/1900- 6/2/1947
Ruby Smith Hammons 4/9/1903-9/30/1994
Leslie Ivy Smith 5/28/1906-3/23/1983
Selma R. Smith Roark 5/22/1909-11/4/1984
Sybil Katherine Smith Chandler 10/16/1911-3/29/2011
Woodrow O. Smith 3/27/1914-9/20/1932
Woodrow's father Wiley died just over a year later on December 4.
Obituary in The Monroe News-Star
Monroe, Louisiana
23 Sep 1932, Fri • Page 13
FUNERAL HELD
EROS. Sept. 23 (Special)—Funeral services for Woodrow Smith, 18, who died at the home of his parents In Indian Village, near here, were held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock by the Rev. J. M. Moore of Ruston. and Rev. R. H. Staples of Marion. Burial was in Indian Village cemetery.
Woodrow had been sick for three years. If he had continued going to school he would have been a senior in this year’s class of the Eros high school.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. (Elijah Wiley & Lizzie) Smith of Indian Village; six sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Alice (Allie) Gaston and Miss Sybil Smith of Indian Village, Mrs. Elmo (Lela) Hale of Calhoun, Mrs. Gus (Ruby) Hammons, Mrs. Lee (Betty) Morgan, and Miss Selma Smith of Fairbanks and Leslie, E. A. (Edwin) and E W. (Willie) Smith of Indian Village; a host of friends and other relatives.
Contributor: D Donald (48847170)
I'm Woodrow's great-niece. Please contact me if you have more information or corrections.
Original link to parents provided by: Eddy Smith
Happy 100th Birthday, Uncle Woodrow!
March 27, 2014
Wish you'd lived long enough that your great-nieces and nephews had known you.
Woodrow was the youngest of ten siblings:
Willie E. Smith - 3/18/1885-6/14/1971
(his mother was Mary F. Jones Smith and was born in Arkansas)
All other children were born in Louisiana to Tennessee Elisabeth "Lizzie" Jones Smith.
Edwin Alfonzo Smith 8/11/1893-8/22/1970
Allie O Smith Gaston 10/1/1896-8/30/1994
Lela M. Smith Hale 8/28/1898-10/28/1984
Betty Virginia Smith Morgan 12/16/1900- 6/2/1947
Ruby Smith Hammons 4/9/1903-9/30/1994
Leslie Ivy Smith 5/28/1906-3/23/1983
Selma R. Smith Roark 5/22/1909-11/4/1984
Sybil Katherine Smith Chandler 10/16/1911-3/29/2011
Woodrow O. Smith 3/27/1914-9/20/1932
Woodrow's father Wiley died just over a year later on December 4.
Obituary in The Monroe News-Star
Monroe, Louisiana
23 Sep 1932, Fri • Page 13
FUNERAL HELD
EROS. Sept. 23 (Special)—Funeral services for Woodrow Smith, 18, who died at the home of his parents In Indian Village, near here, were held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock by the Rev. J. M. Moore of Ruston. and Rev. R. H. Staples of Marion. Burial was in Indian Village cemetery.
Woodrow had been sick for three years. If he had continued going to school he would have been a senior in this year’s class of the Eros high school.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. (Elijah Wiley & Lizzie) Smith of Indian Village; six sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Alice (Allie) Gaston and Miss Sybil Smith of Indian Village, Mrs. Elmo (Lela) Hale of Calhoun, Mrs. Gus (Ruby) Hammons, Mrs. Lee (Betty) Morgan, and Miss Selma Smith of Fairbanks and Leslie, E. A. (Edwin) and E W. (Willie) Smith of Indian Village; a host of friends and other relatives.
Contributor: D Donald (48847170)
I'm Woodrow's great-niece. Please contact me if you have more information or corrections.
Original link to parents provided by: Eddy Smith
March 27, 2014
Wish you'd lived long enough that your great-nieces and nephews had known you.
Woodrow was the youngest of ten siblings:
Willie E. Smith - 3/18/1885-6/14/1971
(his mother was Mary F. Jones Smith and was born in Arkansas)
All other children were born in Louisiana to Tennessee Elisabeth "Lizzie" Jones Smith.
Edwin Alfonzo Smith 8/11/1893-8/22/1970
Allie O Smith Gaston 10/1/1896-8/30/1994
Lela M. Smith Hale 8/28/1898-10/28/1984
Betty Virginia Smith Morgan 12/16/1900- 6/2/1947
Ruby Smith Hammons 4/9/1903-9/30/1994
Leslie Ivy Smith 5/28/1906-3/23/1983
Selma R. Smith Roark 5/22/1909-11/4/1984
Sybil Katherine Smith Chandler 10/16/1911-3/29/2011
Woodrow O. Smith 3/27/1914-9/20/1932
Woodrow's father Wiley died just over a year later on December 4.
Obituary in The Monroe News-Star
Monroe, Louisiana
23 Sep 1932, Fri • Page 13
FUNERAL HELD
EROS. Sept. 23 (Special)—Funeral services for Woodrow Smith, 18, who died at the home of his parents In Indian Village, near here, were held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock by the Rev. J. M. Moore of Ruston. and Rev. R. H. Staples of Marion. Burial was in Indian Village cemetery.
Woodrow had been sick for three years. If he had continued going to school he would have been a senior in this year’s class of the Eros high school.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. (Elijah Wiley & Lizzie) Smith of Indian Village; six sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Alice (Allie) Gaston and Miss Sybil Smith of Indian Village, Mrs. Elmo (Lela) Hale of Calhoun, Mrs. Gus (Ruby) Hammons, Mrs. Lee (Betty) Morgan, and Miss Selma Smith of Fairbanks and Leslie, E. A. (Edwin) and E W. (Willie) Smith of Indian Village; a host of friends and other relatives.
Contributor: D Donald (48847170)
I'm Woodrow's great-niece. Please contact me if you have more information or corrections.
Original link to parents provided by: Eddy Smith
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