Obituary of Ada Smith, Lawrence Co, AR

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Submitted by: Regina Creekmore Weaver<weave@intellinet.com>
        Date: 5 Aug 2001
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Here are some more of the obits from a scrapbook of a lady (a distant
cousin) that lived in the Jesup, Lawrence County area of Arkansas already.
Remember that the problem with these is that there are very few actual
dates given for the dates of death, and there are no newspaper names
written beside them. What I do know I've listed, and what was penciled in
on the obit, I've included. If you find someone that is attached to you,
please let me know, and I will try and see if I can find any other
information for you, such as date of death if you don't have it, and
possibly a newspaper name, also.

>From The Times Dispatch, September 22, 1966:
Mrs. Ada Smith

Jesup Resident Dies Early Monday

Mrs. Ada Smith, aged 85, lifetime resident of Jesup, died Monday morning at
2:25 at her home after an illness of several weeks.
Mrs. Smith was born February 20, 1881 in Jesup and was married to L.B.
Smith on November 12, 1901.  He preceded her in death in 1960.  Mrs. Smith
had been a member of the First Methodist Church of Jesup since 1908.
She is survived by two sons, Eddie Smith and J.L. Smith of Jesup; four
daughters, Ruby Smith of Jesup, Mrs. Annie Durham, Smithville, Mrs. Lorene
Howard, Lynn and Mrs. Zayna Rudy of Peoria, Ill.; a brother, J.R. Sparks,
Rt. 1, Smithville; 13 grandchildren and 22 great grand-children.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon in the First Methodist
Church in Jesup conducted by Rev. A.N. Storey and Rev. Bill Watts.  Burial
was in Lancaster Cemetery under direction of Bryan Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were Tony Smith, Boyce Durham, Terry Durham, Denny Durham,
Leland Mize, Jack Sisk, Rayburn Penn and Melvin Creekmore.

>From The Times Dispatch, September 29, 1966:
Jesup

Our community was saddened the first of last week when death claimed one of
our oldest citizens.  Mrs. Ada Smith.  She had been sick for a number of
weeks and death was not unexpected.  She had lived her entire lifetime
around this community.  Those calling here for the funeral services were
Mr. and Mrs. Garth Rudy and girls and Jack Sisk of Peoria, Ill., Terry
Durham of Carbondale, Ill., Ramonia (Ramona) Smith of Washington, D.C.
Misses Bertie and Artie Sullivan of Little Rock, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Creekmore of West Memphis, Mr. and Mrs. Wayburn Penn and children of
Jacksonville, Mrs. Lois Shaver of Batesville.  Mr. and Mrs. Clay Sparks of
St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Sparks and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hawkins of
Pocahontas, Mr. and Mrs. Elize Stone and son and Mr. and Mrs. Curley
Siffard and grandson of Walnut Ridge, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Wallis of
Batesville, the Tony Smiths of Dowdy and Cluade Sparks of Jonesboro.