{"id":4969,"date":"2017-04-06T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?page_id=4969"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:44:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:44:06","slug":"smith-family-reunion-sidon-mississippi-august-14-1938","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/families\/smith\/smith-family-reunion-sidon-mississippi-august-14-1938\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith Family Reunion, Sidon, Mississippi, August 14, 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"1634<\/a>
1634 Smith Family Reunion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Identity Key of Smith\/Young Family Reunion, Sidon, Mississippi, August 14, 1938 <\/p>\n

Seated, Left to Right:<\/p>\n

1.\tCharles DeFoore
\n2.\tUnknown female
\n3.\tEmma Smith Head (daughter of William James & Annie Young Smith, deceased)
\n4.\tLenora Young Wheeler (wife of Gordon Wheeler)
\n5.\tGeneva Roberts (daughter of Grady & Pet Roberts)
\n6.\tJuanita Sue Smith (daughter of John Douglas Smith IV)
\n7.\tRuth Naomi \u201cBitsy\u201d Smith (daughter of John Douglas Smith IV)
\n8.\tNaomi Brown McAlilly (daughter of Naomi Smith & Berry Davis Brown)
\n9.\tBurney Threadgill (son of Burney & Rosie Lee Threadgill)
\n10.\tUnknown female
\n11.\tMary Glynn Smith (daughter of John Douglas Smith IV)
\n12.\tUnknown female
\n13.\tUnknown male
\n14.\tFred Coleman Smith (son of John Douglas Smith IV)
\n15.\tUnknown female in profile
\n16.\tUnknown male
\n17.\tLucy Jean Smith (daughter of John Douglas Smith IV)
\n18.\tUnknown female
\n19.\tUnknown female
\n20.\tBill Threadgill (son of Burney & Rosie Lee Threadgill)<\/p>\n

Kneeling, Left to Right<\/p>\n

1.\tEllene Smith (oldest daughter of Harry & Fannie Smith)
\n2.\tDorothy Jean Brown Roberts Boehmer (daughter of Naomi Smith Brown Scrivner & Berry Davis Brown)<\/p>\n

Standing, left to right:<\/p>\n

1.\tUnknown female
\n2.\tOlga Smith (daughter of William James & Annie Young Smith)
\n3.\tUnknown female
\n4.\tDoug Smith (son of Williams James Smith & Annie Young)
\n5.\tMary Armstid Smith in black dress with white buttons (daughter of Harry & Fannie Smith)
\n6.\tJohn Young Smith (son of William James Smith & Annie Young)
\n7.\tRosie Lee Smith Threadgill (daughter of William James Smith & Annie Young)
\n8.\tUnknown female
\n9.\tUnknown male (blurry)
\n10.\tUnknown female (partially obscured)
\n11.\tOcie Ola Smith (father of Douglas I. \u201cBubba\u201d Smith)
\n12.\tFannie Smith (wife of Harry Smith)
\n13.\tJames Alexander Ogilvie (husband of Annie Lynn Smith Ogilvie)
\n14.\tHarry Smith (husband of Fannie Smith, father of Ellene)
\n15.\tUnknown male
\n16.\tUnknown female
\n17.\tUnknown male (obscured face)
\n18.\tUnknown girl in the arms of John Douglas Smith
\n19.\tJohn Douglas Smith (son of James Henry Smith & Mary Jane \u201cMolly\u201d McClellan Smith)
\n20.\tPet Roberts (wife of Grady Roberts who owned grocery in Sidon, daughter of # 19, John D. Smith)
\n21.\tNaomi Smith Brown Scrivner (daughter of Jimmie Ella Pentecost & John D. Smith)
\n22.\tWilliam James \u201cBuck\u201d Smith (son of James Henry Smith & Mary Jane \u201cMolly\u201d McClellan Smith)
\n23.\tUnknown male
\n24.\tAnnie Lynn Smith Ogilvie (daughter of William James Smith & Annie Young Smith)
\n25.\tBerry D. Brown, Jr. (son of Naomi Smith Brown Scrivner & Berry D. Brown)
\n26.\tUnknown male
\n27.\tMiss Belle (wife of Charles McClellan Smith, his second wife & mother of Arnette, Jessie Mae & Lorena)
\n28.\tUnknown female in profile
\n29.\tCharles McClellan Smith (son of James Henry Smith & Mary Jane \u201cMolly\u201d McClellan Smith)
\n30.\tFrank Ellis Smith (son of Frank Smith & Sadie Ellis Smith)
\n31.\tWilburn Suber Smith (son of Charles McClellan Smith)
\n32.\tWinstead Douglas Smith (son of John Douglas Smith IV).
\n33.\tAnn Judson Smith DeFoore, female in profile
\n34.\tGordon Lee Smith (son of Ocie Ola and Hattie Lee Smith)
\n35.\tJohn Douglas Smith IV
\n36.\tGeneva Smith
\n37.\tJohn DeFoore
\n38.\tDouglas I. \u201cBubba\u201d Smith (son of Ocie Ola Smith & Hattie Lee Brown)
\n39.\tLucille Smith (wife of Arnett Smith)
\n40.\tArnett Smith (husband of Lucille Smith)<\/p>\n

I found a newspaper article about this event, as seen here:
\n

\"1938<\/a>
1938 The Greenwood Commonwealth (Greenwood, MS) Tue Aug 16, 1938, p3, Sidon, Barbecue Picnic<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Identity Key of Smith\/Young Family Reunion, Sidon, Mississippi, August 14, 1938 Seated, Left to Right: 1. Charles DeFoore 2. Unknown female 3. Emma Smith Head (daughter of William James & Annie Young Smith, deceased) 4. Lenora Young Wheeler (wife of Gordon Wheeler) 5. Geneva Roberts (daughter of Grady & Pet Roberts) 6. Juanita Sue Smith…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":110,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4969","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3viLY-1i9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1108,"url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/families\/hurt\/","url_meta":{"origin":4969,"position":0},"title":"Hurt","author":"Karen","date":"June 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems that my line of Hurts (there are several branches) emigrated (at different times to the colonies from England (many from the Bristol area) and settled in Virginia in the 1600's. 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