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Rome Tribune, March 1937, obituary provided by Vickie Jacobs Omie's granddaughter

Mrs. Naomi "Oma" Alexander Ely Smith, Mrs. Oscar Smith, thirty-year-old grandmother, died Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock at her residence in Cave Spring, Route number 1, after a twelve days illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Smith is said to have been born in 1906, and had one grandchild, the infant of her daughter, Mrs. Bertha South, of Cedartown. Mrs. Smith was probably one of the youngest grandmothers in the United States, and certainly the youngest in this section. It is said that her husband states that he met her when she was twelve years old, and they were married soon afterwards. Surviving Mrs. Smith besides her husband are five sons, Harvey, Marvin, Horace, Eugene and Earl Smith of Cave Spring, Rt. No. 1; two daughters, Mrs. Bertha South of Cedartown, and Miss Elsie Smith of Cave Spring; four sisters, Mrs. Pearl Early, of Cave Spring, Mrs. Maggie Arp, of Centre, Ala., Mrs. Lizzie Rogers and Miss. Beulah Alexander, of Key, Ala.; and one grandchild. Funeral services will be conducted Friday morning at 11 o'clock from the Bethel Methodist church at Forney, Ala.. The Rev. Ed Dempsey, pastor of the Mountain Springs Methodist church, will officiate, with interment in the adjoining cemetery. Pallbearers will include Alex Steed, A.N. Chapman, A.S. Carr, E.W. Mitchell, Will Hart and John Heath. The church choir will be in charge of the music. Mrs. Smith had been a member of the Hopewell Methodist church for twenty years.

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