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Submitted: 12/26/21 • Approved: 12/26/21 • Last Updated: 12/29/21 • R475608-G475607-S3
September 2, 1889-November 23, 1970
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Ellen Smith, 81, of Wheeler, will be hled Wednesday, November 25, 1970 at the First Baptist Church in Wheeler at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. M.B. Smith of Pampa officiating.
Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery under the direction of Wright Funeral Home.
Mrs. Smith passed away Monday, November 23, 1970 in the Shamrock General Hospital after an illness of several months.
Born September 2, 1889 in Montague Co., Texas, she had lived in Wheeler County since 1933 except the past two years where she had lived in the Golden Spread Nursing Home in Shamrock.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1933.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors include three sons, Elbert W. Smith of Wheeler, J.J.E. Smith of Borger, and Bill of Shamrock; one sister, Mrs. W.H. Templeton of Wheeler; eight grandchildren and one great-grandson.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 47, Issue No. 50, Thursday, November 25, 1970, Page 1)
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Texas, County Marriage Records, 1817-1965
Name: Martha Mcdonald
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 1913
Marriage Place: Montague, Texas, USA
Spouse: C.E. Smith
Film Number: 001435393
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Martha Ellen Smith
[Martha Ellen McDonald]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 81
Birth Date: 2 Sep 1889
Birth Place: Montague, Texas
Residence: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Death Date: 23 Nov 1970
Death Place: Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Father: Sam McDonald
Mother: Sarah Jackson
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Martha E Smith
[Martha E McDonald]
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 2 Sep 1889
Birth Place: Sunset Monta, TX
Death Date: 15 Nov 1970
Claim Date: 19xx
Father: Samuel McDonald
Mother: Sarah D Jackson
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