Funeral services were held Tuesday in the First Methodist Church for Mrs. Samantha Caroline Smith, 96, a Dickens County pioneer.Rev. Howard Marcom officiated. Mrs. Smith died February 14 in the Hamlin hospital. She was a charter member of the Methodist Church and the only surviving charter member of the Spur Eastern Star. She was a teacher in the first private school in the Duck Creek community. She had made her home in Dickens County since 1890. She was born in Georgia in 1875 and married Zeb Vance Smith in Duck Creek Church in 1901.
Survivors are one son, Virgil, Spur; one daughter, Mrs. O.R. (Carrie) Boothe, Spur; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Swaringen, Spur and Mrs. Lou Hagins, Jayton; one brother, C.M. Carlisle, Houston and 2 grandchildren.
©The Texas Spur, February 18, 1971
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
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