Obit: Rhoda Smith, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by E. Dale Smith, 8416 Ridgemont Drive, Pineville, LA 71360
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WINNFIELD NEWS-AMERICAN, Winnfield, Louisiana, Friday, March 25, 1927

Mrs. Rhoda Smith Dies; One of Oldest Families of Parish

Mrs. Rhoda Smith, mother of Pat Smith, merchant, of this city, died
Thursday, March 17, following a stroke of apoplexy from which she was found
the day before lying unconscious in the yard at the home of her daughter Mrs.
J.H. Lewis, whom she had gone to visit.

Mrs. Smith who made her home with her son, Charlie Smith, Route 2 was a
member of one of the oldest families of the parish being a daughter of William
and Elizabeth Bevill Porter who came to the parish in the early fifties.

Mrs. Smith was born in Alabama in 1844 and was 82 years, 2 months, and 5
days of age at the time of her death. 

She was a strong influential christian and a faithful member of the
Corinth Baptist Church.

Mrs. Smith was twice married.  First to Mr. Jasper Morrel, who died during
the Civil War and second to Mr. Patrick Smith who died in June 1908.

Besides her eight children who were at her bedside when death came she is
survived by 52 grandchildren, 48 great grandchildren and 5 great-great
grandchildren.

Her children are, Darius Smith, who lives near Winnfield, Jim Smith,
Charlie Smith, Route 2, Winnfield, Patrick Smith, merchant of Winnfield, Mrs.
Lizzie Long, Mrs. Alice Lewis, Mrs. Margie Bartley, and Mrs. Missouri Dawson.

Submitted by:  E. Dale Smith, 8416 Ridgemont Drive, Pineville, LA 71360
                       E-mail:  edmlsmith@aol.com