Obit of Smith, Andrew Calhoun - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 12 Mar 2006 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Ochiltree Cemetery--Perryton TX Surnames: Smith, Sherrill, Clemmons, McDaniels, Wood, Brown Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6600 Impressive funeral services were held in the Methodist Church Saturday afternoon for A.C. Smith, who passed away at his home east of town Thursday, June 19, 1941, after a lingering illness. He was 82 years, 9 months and 12 days old. Rev William E. Fisher, Methodist pastor, conducted the final ritess and the body was laid to rest in the Ochiltree Cemetery. Members of the Masonic body acted as pall bearers and had charge of the services at the grave. Mr. Smith hads been in the county 26 years and much of that time was spent on his farm three miles east of town. After retiring from active work, Mr. Smith has resided in Perryton. Andrew Calhoun Smith was born September 7, 1856 in Carrollton, Georgia. He came to Texas in 1884 and has since lived continually in Texas and Oklahoma. He was married three times. Seven children were born to the first union, five of whom are now living; four were born to the second union and two are living; and the third marriage was August 10, 1902 to Martha Leona Sherrill of Clarksvillew, Texas. She and their two children survive. In early life Mr. Smith united with the Presbyteran Church. About three years ago he united with the Methodist Church and has been a faithful, consecrated worker. Survivors are his wife; six sons, Jas. C., Grover Cleveland and Dock Sayers of Cheyenne, Oklahoma, Andrew and J.B. of Perryton, Rober E. Lee of Pampa, a stepson, Henry Clemmons, Pampa; three daughters, Mrs. Henry McDaniels, Cheyenne, Mrs. Price Wood, Stephenville and Mrs. Jim Brown, Amarillo; 43 grandchildren; 35 great grandchildren and a host of othedr relatives and friendss. Mr. Smith's passing was the first death in thew family for 39 years. Ochiltree County Herald, Perryton, Texas 26-Jun-1941 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html