Beckham County, OK - Obits: Anne Smart Blackmore, 1926
01 Sep 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BLACKMORE, ANNE SMART
(21 Oct 1926, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Anne Smart Blackmore was born in Callaway County, Missouri, December 4,
1884, where she resided for 31 years.  It was in that county that she
received her education and where she became a christian, for as a girl she
was obedient unto Christ being baptized in the Mount Tabor Christian
Church.  It was also in the same county that she was united in marriage
with Scott E. Blackmore on August 24, 1903.  After twelve years of their
married life or in December 1915 the family moved to the farm six miles
east of Elk City, where they have resided continuously to the present
time.
Sister Blackmore was a member of the local First Christian Church and as
far as her circumstances permitted was faithful and loyal to Christ and
the church.  Her highest ambition was that her family should be thoroughly
Christian.
Into the Blackmore family there were born nine children:  two girls and
seven boys; the girls are Irene, who is now Mrs. R. E. Paxon of Amarillo,
Texas, and Dorothy Jean.  The boys are Carl, Earl, Harold, S. R., Chas.,
Penn, S. C. Jr., and Billy Dean who preceeded his mother to the glory
world early last February.  From the time of the passing of the little one
the health of Sister Blackmore has gradually failed.  About the middle of
September an operation was performed for the removal of goiter.  The shock
was too great for her frail constitution so that yesterday morning,
October 13 at 1:50 while her friends were asleep, with a few of her dear
ones near her she peaceably slipped away to spend eternity with her
Savior, after having spent 41 years, 10 months and nine days upon this
earth.
Sister Blackmore was part of a family of six children.  Her father and two
brothers have gone ahead into the great beyond.
Sister Blackmore was first a Christian, then a faithful and true wife, a
loving, sympathetic mother, and a kind, helpful neighbor.  She will be
sorely missed by her husband and her children; her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Smart, brother, S. R. Smart; and her two sisters Mrs. C. H. Eastwood,
these three residing in Callaway County, Mo., and Mrs. B. A. Renolds, of
Ellington, Mo.