1927 Obituary of Captain Oliver Perry Smith, formerly of Ouachita City, Union Parish Louisiana Submitted by: Dr. Robert S. Hendrick Date of Submission: 3/2010 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================= ================================================================================= 1927 Obituary of Captain Oliver Perry Smith, formerly of Ouachita City, Union Parish Louisiana This obituary was filed with Captain Smith's death certificate. The paper in which it was published is unknown, but was published aroun 3 February 1927. Captain Smith was a merchant at Ouachita City and a brother of Union Parish Recorder William C. Smith. ======================================================================================= ======================================================================================= The death of Capt. Oliver Perry Smith, aged Confederate veteran and beloved Baton Rougean, occurred this morning a few minutes after 10 o’clock at the home of his daughter Mrs. Marshall Robertson, on North Boulevard. The funeral will take place from the house at 10 o’clock Friday morning, with Dr. B. P. Taylor of the First Methodist Church officiating at the services, and Captain Smith will be laid to rest in the Magnolia cemetery Only last July Captain Smith celebrated his eighty-seventh milestone, and enjoyed at that time having the members of his family and many friends about him. Although his health during recent years has been frail, he has maintained interest in his friends, and was ever ready to receive callers. Recently, however, he had become much weaker, and the end came this morning. He had received the tenderest of care from his daughters and other members of the family. Captain Smith was born in Perry County, Alabama on July 16, 1839, the youngest of eight sons of John Smith and Fanny Martin Smith. His grand parents were from Culpepper County, VA. The family moved to Louisiana in 1840. It was from Monroe that Oliver Smith went forth to the Civil War as a member of the First Company from Ouachita Parish, April 23, 1861. He was one of six brothers in the Confederate army. He served in Company A, Second Louisiana regiment, seeing service under Generals Bankhead McGruder, Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson. He was wounded in the second battle of Manassas August 30, 1862. Captain Smith was married in 1869 to Miss Frances Elizabeth Goldsby of Monroe, LA and for many years he was a merchant in Ouachita City in north Louisiana. It was two years later, in the year 1887, that Captain Smith came to Baton Rouge, accepting a position in the office of his old friend, Capt. O. B. Steele, who was state auditor. For many years he was associated with state affairs, serving in the offices of the state auditor and as assistant secretary of the pension board, and he continued these duties long after he had past his four-score milestone. Since its organization he was a member of Camp 17 of the United Confederate veterans, and for years he was active in Capitol Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Also he was a member of the First Methodist church of this city. Captain Smith, who was the oldest Confederate veteran in Baton Rouge, is survived by three daughters, Mrs. M. P. Robertson, Mrs. S. T. Sanders, who is the wife of Professor Sanders, head of the mathematics department at Louisiana State University, and Mrs. W. A, Loveland. He leaves also four granddaughters, three grandsons and five great grandchildren. His grandchildren are Mrs. Harry Nadler of San Domingo; Mrs. Marion Gorton and Mrs. Yandell Gorton of Shreveport; and Sam and Marshall Robertson, all the children of Mrs. Robertson and Sam and Evelyn Sanders. ########################################################################################## File posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/union/obits/1927smith.txt