Photographs of the Family of Elder Woody K. Smith
of
Spearsville, Union Parish Louisiana

     Woody King Millard Filmore Smith (26 Apr 1857 – 26 June 1933) was born in Bradley County Arkansas, the son of Hansford Willis Smith and Martha A. Davis. He was a Primitive Baptist preacher, ordained at Good Hope Primitive Baptist Church in 1882 at the age of twenty-five. Elder Smith worked as a minister for the next fifty years. He belonged to Good Hope Church on the Arkansas/Louisiana line until about 1895, when he moved to Spearsville and moved his membership to the New Hope Church there. Woody K. Smith was definitely a well-known figure in Union Parish Louisiana from the 1880s until his death in 1933. For more information on this family, read these biographies written by Lyle Smith:

Woody K. Smith
Mary Rebecca Barron Smith
James Hardy Smith
Thomas Jackson Smith
William Hansford Smith
Armon & Harmon Smith
John Lee Smith
Sarah Elizabeth Smith
Ruby Angie Smith