FRANK SMITH
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A6   FRANK SMITH
   
Born September 8, 1870 in Indiana and reared near the Wabash river. He was the son 
of  John Speed and   Julia Ann Lipps Smith. He moved to Arkansas with his parents 
in 1880. They settled in Yell County, old Neely community. After the death of his 
parents (1883 and 1884) he lived with a brother  Ballard and sister  Minnie. After the 
marriage of  Ballard in 1886,  Frank and a friend,  Sid Snuggs, who was also single, 
lived together and farmed for several years until each of them married.
    
 Walter Cooper, a boy at that time, remembers spending several nights with them.  
Frank was a great hand to tell tales. Upon hearing them,  Walter was spell bound. One 
story in particular, he recalls, concerned a dragon which would come up out of a lake 
close by and comb its hair when the weather was storming.
    
 Frank was of medium size, extremely dark complexioned, and had straight, very 
course dark hair. On January 18, 1897,  Frank and   Martha Brock (18 yrs. old, born 1879) 
were married. They lived most of their married life in Carden Bottom and a short 
time in Perry County near his brother  Ballard. They made their living by farming 
cotton either by share crop or day labor.

        They had issue      
                B37  Jude Smith
                B38   Hallie Smith m  Homer Tilmon
                B39  Clifford Smith
                B40  Elton Smith      
                B41  Dewey Smith
                B42  Loy Smith m  Tillery from Perry County, Arkansas
    
 Frank Smith and  Monroe Brock (married to   Georgie Bagwell) went out to help find 
a fugitive in an old coal mine. When they were nearing the mine, a rabbit jumped out 
and  Frank, already excited over his hunt, accidentally shot the front part of  Monroe's 
foot off.
    
In the fall of 1912, the  Frank Smith family stayed in the home of  John and  Bertha 
Person and picked cotton on the Potts farm.  Frank got sick and it is said that  Martha 
and  Hallie were not too eager to help with the housework so  John stretched a tent for 
them under a huge tree near the Potts farm. The family moved into the tent and 
Frank died later about 1914. He was buried at Harris cemetery at Cotton Town. His 
grave is east of the Frank Miller graves.

  Martha Brock Smith married  Charlie Maroney after  Frank's death, B43   Sybil 
Maroney was born to them and  Martha died while Sybil was a baby. The Smith 
brother reared her. She married  Oss Guerian, a Yell County boy.