FLOYD COUNTY, GA - Obits   Mrs. Roscoe Smith

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Rome News Tribune August 31, 1969
 
Mrs. Roscoe Smith
 
Mrs. F. Roscoe Smith, of 404 Kings Street, Kings
Mountain, N.C., a former Roman, died Friday afternoon
in Kings Mountain. Mrs. Smith had been in declining
health for 14 months, her condition having been
critical for a week.

Mrs. Smith was born in Floyd County Dec. 9, 1889,
daughter of the late H. B. and Docie Smith Lumpkin.
She was the former Miss Ida Lumpkin. She was educated
in the public schools in Rome, where she spent most of
her life. She had lived in Kings Moutain since the
death of her husband, Francis Roscoe Smith, April 26,
1968. She was a member of South Broad Baptist Church
and a former teacher in the Sunday School department.
She was a member of the Eastern Star. She and Mr.
Smith were married Sept. 1, 1907.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. J. Avery Trammell of
Kings Mountain, N.C., one sister, Mrs. W. C. Coalson
of Rome; three half sisters, Mrs. Claude Partain of
Marietta, Mrs. Grady Ellison of Atlanta and Mrs. Rob
Bailey of Rockmart; one brother, Smith Lumpkin of
Rome; four half brothers, Frank Lumpkin of Rockmart,
Tom Lumpkin of Douglasville, Charner Lumpkin of
Aragon, and Harry Lumpkin of Cedartown; three
grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, a number of
nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted today at 3 p.m. at
South Broad Baptist Church. The Rev. Bernard Deakins
will officiate. Interment will be in Myrtle Hill
Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the funeral
home. Stevens-Davenport Funeral Home has charge of
arrangements. (Note: Died August 29, 1969)