CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Ernest Eldred Smith, 6 Oct 1956
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Obituary appeared in the Sunday, October 7, 1956 Elizabethton Star
 
Ernest Eldred Smith, 63, of Hampton, died in the Franklin Clinic Saturday
morning.  He had been in poor health for the past five years.  A native of
Carter County, he had lived in the community of Hampton his entire life.  He
was a member of the Union Baptist Church, and was employed by the North
American Rayon Co., where he had worked for 28 years as a supervisor.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Nanny Smith of the home; five sons Tom, John
Frank and Hugh Smith of Hampton, Ted Smith of the home, and Reece Smith of Rt.
1, Watauga, Tenn; five daughters, Mrs. Kate Smith of Route 4, Elizabethton;
Mrs. Blonnie Nash of the home; Miss Lillian Smith of the home; Mrs. Jenamae
Lewis of Rt. 1, Elizabethton, and Mrs. Wanda Griggs of New Orleans; four
brothers Clarence, Dan, and P.F. Smith of Hampton, and Oscar Smith of Route 5,
Elizabethton; twenty three grandchildren and one great grandchild survives.
Funeral directions are under the direction of the Tetrick Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Ernest Eldred Smith will be held at 2:30 pm Sunday from
the Union Baptist Church.  Officiating will be rev. Charlie Campbell, Rev.
Major Arrowood, Rev. H.M. Slagle, Jr. and Rev. Charles Souder.  Music by the
church choir.  The body was returned to the home at 2:00 pm Saturday and will
be taken to the church at 12:30 pm today to lie in state until the service
hour.  Active pallbearers will be Grady Robinson, Oscar Johnson, Gatha
Campbell, A.C. Goodwin, Ed Stout, Charlie Peters, Haskell Ingram and George
Oliver.  Honorary pallbearers will be Shift No., 1 Viscose Dept. of N.A.R.C.
Flower bearers will be the Adult Ladies Sunday School Classes of the church.
Interment will be at the Union Church Cemetery.  Tetrick Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.

(Ernest was the son of John A. Smith 1865-? and Mattie L. Teague 1869-?.
Ernest's wife was Nancy "Nannie" Peters 1897-1981.)


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