New Madrid County Missouri Obituary
William Wesley
Smith,
Services for: William Wesley Smith
,
1880, thru 1936,
Submitted by
Ronnie Smith (Grandson)
Poster-#-44-
W.W. Smith Fatally Injured In Accident
W.W. Smith, well-known Rector farmer died at the Dickson
Memorial Hospital
at Paragould Friday night after being struck by an automobile as
he alighted
from a wagon on Highway 39 about one mile south of Rector.
The man driving the car which struck Mr. Smith was Andrew
Clark of
Monnette. Mr. Clark and his companions brought the injured man
to Dr.
Cloptons office, and he was immediately taken to the hospital in
an Irby
ambulance. Suffering from a broken leg, a fractured skull and
other injuries,
he died a short time after he arrived at the hospital.
Funeral services were held at the Church Of Christ, the
interment
taking place at Mounds cemetary.
He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Missses
Dorothy Mae and
Edna Fay Smith, eight sons Finis Smith of Detroit,Michigan,
Paul, Harry,
Glenn, Hubert, Eugene, James, and Charles Smith of Rector; a
stepson Raymond
Bazzell of Marmaduke; three sisters Mrs R. J. Yancey of
Rector,Mrs J.S.
Barger and Mrs.Dolly Neighouse of Chicago, and four brothers,
W.L. (Cooter)
Smith, and Robert Smith of Rector, Joseph/Joe Asa Smith of
Perry, Arkansas
and John Smith of Outwood , Kentucky
Obituary: (from the " Clay County
Democrat", Rector January 1936)
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