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Lonnie Jasper "Rounder" Smith

Lonnie Jasper "Rounder" Smith

Male 1895 - 1956  (61 years)

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  • Name Lonnie Jasper "Rounder" Smith  [1, 2, 3
    • Email from his gr grandson names him as "Leonidas Smith."
    Born 7 Sep 1895  Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5
    • Harlow Cemetery marker offers birth year only, of 1890.
    Gender Male 
    Anecdote
    William D. Walker (my father) remembered "Rounder" Smith--said he was in jail most Saturday nights for drinking.  [6
    Parents
    Rounder's death certificate named his father as "Alex Smith," did not name his mother and named his wife as "Meta Smith," which is enough to identify this as the correct Lon Smith.  [5
    Residence Abt 1956  Rural Route 1, Mountain View, Howell County, MIssouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Death certificate stated that though he died in a rest home in West Plains, this was his usual place of residence. 
    Died 10 Oct 1956  Mask Rest Home, West Plains, Howell County, MIssouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Buried 12 Oct 1956  Harlow Cemetery, Texas County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I3502  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 10 Apr 2017 

    Father Alex Smith 
    Mother [wife of Alex] Smith 
    Family ID F2399  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Almeda Easter "Meta" Phipps,   b. 25 Jul 1897, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Oct 1934, Texas County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
    Married Abt 1915  [7
    • 1930 census indicates she was first married at age 18, calculating to about 1915.
    Children 
     1. Leona Belle Smith,   b. 11 Sep 1918, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Sep 1986  (Age 68 years)
     2. Sylvia May Smith,   b. 4 Mar 1920, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1998, Austell Health Center, Marietta, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     3. Louise Smith,   b. Abt 1922, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Joyce A. Smith,   b. Abt 1924, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Ruby Darlene Smith,   b. Abt 1926, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +6. Fay L. Smith,   b. 8 Jan 1929, Texas County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Ray L. Smith,   b. Abt 1929, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +8. Lora Smith
    Last Modified 11 Apr 2019 
    Family ID F1182  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S2919] "Harlow Cemetery, Texas County, Missouri," database and digital images, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 November 2012), entry for Lon (Rounder) Smith(1890-1957); memorial no. 36762962, posted 5 May 2009 by Diana Kimes (dianakimes64@yahoo.com). .

    2. [S3979] Richard Hubbard (rickhubbard1313@gmail.com) to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 3 November 2013, subject "Re: autosomal DNA match." Offering his line of descent from Elijah Walker.

    3. [S5115] Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 33799 (1956), Lonnie Jasper Smith, Howell County; "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1963,? digital images, Missouri Digital Heritage (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives : accessed 10 April 2017); Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.

    4. [S328] Missouri, Ozark - 1930 U.S. Census, Missouri. Ozark County., Jackson township, Ozark County, Missouri, ED 77-7, Sheet 5A, Dwelling 91, Family 91, Leonidas Smith household, jpeg image (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S2920] Missouri Secretary of State, “Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1961,” digital images, Missouri State Archives (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives : accessed 27 November 2012), for Lonnie Jasper Smith, certificate no. 33799, Howell County, Missouri (1956). .

    6. [S73] Walker, William D. Walker (memories), (Informal conversations and interviews with William D. Walker (Beaverton, Oregon), by his daughter, Janis Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC), 1984 to the present (2007); regarding the history of the Walker, Campbell, Crowder, and DeBoard families.).

    7. [S2918] 1930 U.S. census, Texas County, Missouri, population schedule, Date township, enumeration district (ED) 10, sheet 4A, p. 79 (stamped, recto), dwelling 71, family 72, Lon Smith [Leonidas Smith] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 Nov 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1249.