Augustus Mart SMITH
Birdie Brea GILLESPIE


Husband:  Augustus Mart SMITH
Birth:  13 Nov 1882, Tennessee
Death:  21 May 1952, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
Burial:  May 1952, Garden Point Cemetery, Etowah, Mississippi Co., Arkansas
Father:  Augustus M. SMITH
Mother:  Ellen V. TANNER 

Marriage:       11 Aug 1922, Mississippi Co., Arkansas

Wife:  Birdie Brea GILLESPIE
Birth: 
21 Dec 1906, Pontotoc Co., Mississippi
Death: 
20 Mar 1995, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas
Burial:  Mar 1995, Restland Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas
Father: 
Thomas Jefferson GILLESPIE
Mother:  Mary Jane MATHEWS

Children:  
1. Opal Patricia SMITH (Erickson), b: 27 Nov 1923, Mississippi Co., Arkansas
                                                   d: 15 Nov 2001, Mokena, Will Co., Illinois
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Notes:    

1930 Federal Census Data (T626_0082, Page 154A), Little River Twp., Mississippi Co., Arkansas,
                                                                            Enumeration District: 30, Enumeration Date: 8-Apr-1930, Family #70

 NAME

Relation

Sex

Age

M/S W/D

Age Marr

POB

Fa. POB

Mo. POB

 In Sch

Occupation

 SMITH, Augustus M

 Head

M

47

M

26

TN

KY

TN

 

 Farmer / Cotton

            Bertie B

 Wife

F

24

M

17

MS

MS

MS

 

 None

            Isaac M

 Son

M

15

S

 

AR

TN

TN

X

 None

            Emma

 Daughter

F

18

S

 

AR

TN

TN

X

 None

            Opal

 Daughter

F

6

S

 

AR

TN

MS

X

 None

By 1940, Birdie and Gus had divorced and she had married Sanford White in 1937. She and Sanford had separated by 1940 and she was living with her sister Flora and her family.  In 1948, she married Ed Willingham and relocated to Texas.
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