Obituaries:  Aldred Smith, Jr., Sabine Parish       S-530
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 20, 1969
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Aldred Smith, Jr.

  The body of Aldred Smith Jr., about 38, of Hemphill, Tex., was
found in Toledo Lake near the LaNana Creek Bridge on State Hwy.
475, Wednesday, March 12, about 4 p.m., according to Sabine
Parish Sheriff Harold W. Sandel.

  The body was found by Raymond West, and R. L. Wolf of Warren
Meadows Funeral Home, who were returning from a fishing trip.

  Sheriff Sandel said Smith had been missing for about two weeks.
The sheriff said Smith's wife said he "just got in the car and
drove off, about 12 or 1 a.m., and she hadn't seen him since."

  He was driving a 1968 Buick Rivera, the sheriff said, and
attempts have been made by dragging, diving, and by the use of
magnets, to locate the car in the lake, but all attempts have
failed. Sheriff Sandel said the water is up to 60 ft. deep in
some places.

  The sheriff said a Dr. Henderson, a pathologist in Nacogdoches,
Tex., performed the autopsy on Smith, and said there was no
evidence of foul play. The time of Smith's death has not been
determined, said the sheriff.