Biography of Elizabeth Smith, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Mrs. Elizabeth (Goode) Smith. The agricultural interests of Sebastian County,
Ark., are well represented by the  lady whose name heads this sketch, and who
was born in Alabama January 5, 1827. Her father, Holbert Goode,  was also a
native of Alabama, and died in 1833, and three years later Mrs. Smith removed
with her mother to Arkansas, locating in Franklin County. Here Mrs. Smith spent
her early life, and was married in 1845 to  Pleasant W. Richardson, who was
born in Georgia January 11, 1815, and a son of William Richardson. He died  in
1848, leaving a wife and two children to mourn his loss: Mrs. Emily J. Smith,
of Texas, and Mrs. Mary E.  Colter, now residing in California. In [p.1365]
1851 she was married to her second husband, John W. Putman, a  son of Samuel
and Mary Putman (the former from Vermont), and three children, Mrs. Sarah J.
Hill, Mrs, Lucy  Carroll, and John H., blessed their union. Lucy's husband,
Hugh Carroll, was a son of Col. John Carroll, of  Carroll County, Ark. He
(Hugh) and wife are deceased. Mr. Putman died in 1862. Two years later his
widow wedded Augustus H. Smith, who was born in Washington County, Ark.,
October 8, 1832, and by him became  the mother of two children, James A. and
Ada G. The father of these children died in 1879; he was a son of Burt  and
Mary Smith. Since 1851 Mrs. Smith has resided on the farm where she now lives.
She at first owned 350  acres of land, but has divided it among her children
until she now owns only sixty acres. She moved to Kansas  in 1864, but returned
to Arkansas in the fall of 1865, where she has been contented to make her home
since that  time. She is a lady of rare good sense, and is noted for her
liberality and charity to the poor and unfortunate.