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Portsmouth Daily Times, Thursday, Oct. 23, 1980
Smith
Greenup, Ky. -- Duncan Smith Sr., of Greenup Rt. 2, died Wednesday at home after a long illness.
A Greenup County native, a World War I Navy veteran and a retired New York Central Railroad conductor, he attended Old Regular Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Ona Braden Smith; two sons, Duncan Jr. of Greenup and John Franklin of Greenup Rt. 2; a daughter, Clayona Smith of Greenup Rt. 2; a brother, Clyde of Cocoa Beach, Fla.; 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending at J. B. Wright Funeral Home.
Portsmouth Times, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1977
Smith
Wheelersburg – Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, 88, of Dogwood Ridge Rd., Wheelersburg Rt. 5, died Monday at Scioto Memorial Hospital.
A native of Greenup County, Ky., she is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Jessie Branham, Ninth St., Portsmouth, Mrs. Nora Logan, with whom she lived and, Mrs. Virginia Massie of Pensacola, Fla., and Mrs. Verna Lindeman; 17 grandchildren; 44 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
Rev. William E. Ottney is to conduct services 10 a.m. Wednesday at Harrison Funeral Home here. Burial is to be in Wheelersburg Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today.
Portsmouth Daily Times, Monday, Sept. 24, 1984
Smith
Frank M. Smith, 72, of 1224 Summit St., died Saturday at home.
A Greenup County, Ky., native and a member of Lucasville Masonic Lodge and Lucasville Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he was a retired machinist of the former Empire-Detroit Steel Corp.
Survivors include his wife, Kathryn Boren Smith; three sons, Ernest of Wheelersburg, Paul of Lucasville Route 5 and Lowell of Mountain Home, Idaho; two daughters, Lona Goodrich of Lawton, Okla., and Emily Jones of Portsmouth; a stepson James Boren of Long Beach, Calif.; a brother Walker of Lucasville Route 4, four sisters, Pearl Walker and Minnie Clark, both of Arcanum, Ethel Green of Portsmouth and Nettie Smith of Seven Mile; eight grandchildren, 10 step-grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral service is planned 1 p. m. Wednesday at McKinley Funeral Home in Lucasville, with Elder Paul Crabtree officiating, and burial in Lucasville Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, where a Masonic service is planned at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Greenup News, Friday, July 19, 1968
Flatwoods Man Claimed Following Brief Illness
George C. Smith Sr., 66, of Flatwoods died Wednesday in a Huntington hospital following a brief illness. Born in Greenup County he was a son of the late James and Mitchell (sic.) Smith.
Mr. Smith was a veteran of World War II, a retired Chesapeake and Ohio Railway employee and a member of Elwood Stringer American Legion Post.
Surviving are his wife Eva Smith; four daughters, Mrs. Ruth Ann Carman and Mrs. Linda Campbell both of Lexington, Mrs. Lucille Weeks of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. June Lee Smith of Sumpter, S.C., one son, George C. Smith Jr. of Flatwoods; two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Tune of Raceland and Mrs. Lettie Manning of Kentucky; four brothers, Charles Smith of Texas, Bill and James Smith, both of Ohio, Henry Smith of Georgia, and nine grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday at Advance Memorial Methodist Church by Robert Pugh and Herbert McComas, ministers. Burial was in Rude cemetery in Flatwoods.
Portsmouth Times, Saturday, Oct. 25, 1975
Smith
Greenup, Ky. – Mrs. Grace Green Smith, 77, of Greenup died Friday at 9:35 p.m. in King’s Daughters Hospital in Ashland after a long illness.
Mrs. Smith’s husband, Morris, died Set (sic., Sept.) 11. She is survived by three sons, Millard (M.J.) Smith of Lloyd, Carl of Load and Jack of Garrison Rt. 2; five daughters, Mrs. Hazel Musser of Sciotoville, Ohio, Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, Mrs. Ethel Wolfe and Mrs. Minnie Wolfe, all of Greenup, and Mrs. Lousie Bradley of York, Ky.; four sisters, Mrs. Eva Lee of Piketon, Ohio, Mrs. Ora Horsley, Mrs. Lucy Clark and Mrs. Carrie Fraley, all of Garrison; a brother, Glenn Eldridge of Springfield, Ohio, 25 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
Funeral services are incomplete under the direction of the J. B. Wright Funeral Home. Burial will be in Logan cemetery with Mike Hall, minister, officiating.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 tonight.
Portsmouth Daily Times, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1997
Inez Smith, 82
Inez Stephenson Smith, 82, of Greenup (Ky.) Route 2, died Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1997 at a Flatwoods, Ky., nursing home.
Born March 17, 1915, in Haverhill, a daughter of the late Roy and Myrtle Boyles Stephenson, she was a house wife and a member of he Raccoon Freewill Baptist Church.
Preceded in death by her husband Ralph Smith in March 1995, she is survived by a bother, Fred Stephenson of Lexington, Ky.
She also was preceded in death by two daughters Naomi Smith and Marlene Smith and a son, Tommy Smith.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Raccoon Freewill Baptist Church, Kentucky 2, with William Oaks and Henderson Morris officiating, and interment in Bellefonte Memorial Gardens at Flatwoods.
Friends may call at Wright’s Funeral Home in Greenup after 6 p.m. Thursday, and at the church form 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday.
The Greenup News, Friday, Sept. 4, 1953
James N. Smith, 78, Succumbs; Rites Held Sunday
Last rites were held Sunday at 2 p.m. In the Advance Methodist Church for James Nichols Smith. Rev. E. L. Galion officiated at the services.
Burial was in Palmer Cemetery.
Smith, 78, died at 5 p.m. Thursday, following a five-day illness.
He was a retired C& O Railway carman and is survived by: the widow, Mrs. Melinda Jane Smith; five sons, James of Raceland, Clancy of Flatwoods, Charles of San Antonio, Tex., William and Harry of Columbus, O., three daughters, Mrs. Mabel Dean, St. Louis Mich., Lettie Manning, Owensboro, Ky., and Mrs. Birdie Tune, Raceland.
Also, surviving are three brothers, Charles, West Russell, John, Raceland and Frank of Delbarton, W Va.
Portsmouth Daily Times, Tuesday, June 15, 2004
John Smith, 71
John Franklin Smith, 71, of Greenup, Ky., died Monday, June 14, 2004, at Southern Ohio Medical Center.
He was born Dec. 22, 1932, in Greenup, Ky., a son of the late Duncan and Ona Braden Smith.
Surviving are son, John W. Smith Jr.; daughter, Kellie J. Burgess; and three grandchildren.
Graveside services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Pettit cemetery in Greenup with the Rev. James Wells officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Reed Funeral Home in Greenup.
Portsmouth Times, Nov. 28, 1950
Body of Ace Pilot On Way To Sciotoville
Last Rites for Lt. Smith Are Arranged for Friday Afternoon
The body of Lt. John Clay Smith, Scioto County’s only ace fighter pilot, who gave his life in battling the Japanese in the South Pacific, will arrive her Wednesday morning over the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway from New York and will be taken to Gill Funeral Home at Sciotoville.
The pilot was a son of Mr. And Mrs. Arthur Smith (Lucy McCormick), 320 Eastern Av., Sciotoville.
Brief funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Gill parlors with Rev. L. C. Radley of Sciotoville Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
The parents were notified through papers from the War Department at Washington that the body of the pilot had been identified "beyond any reasonable doubt" and requested information on whether to return the body to the States for burial.
Return Takes Months.
In August Mrs. Smith had a telephone message from Washington relative to her plans for return of the body and again she was assured that identification had been made certain.
The body had been buried near the pilot’s fallen aircraft in New Guinea by Japanese. Identification was made through the number of the P-38 after natives insisted the pilot had been buried near the fallen ship. It was one of the few instances where the Japanese buried enemy dead.
The body was reburied in New Guinea but climate conditions were not favorable for a permanent U.S. cemetery there and the body was taken to the Philippines and remained at Manila for many months while positive identification was made.
On Oct. 19 a telegram was received that the body was en-route to the States.
Native of Scioto
The pilot was born Feb. 11, 1920 in Scioto County. He was graduated from East High School in 1938 and was in his second year at Ohio State when he entered service Nov. 12, 1941.
He was sent to Ft. Knox and was transferred to the air force in April, 1942. He was sent to Santa Ana, Calif., and was trained at various fields in that state. He commissioned a second lieutenant and licensed as a pilot Jan. 4, 1943 to fly single and multiple-engine craft.
July 16, 1943, he flew from Hamilton, Field at San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia arriving July 20. He was assigned to the 475th Fighter Group, 5th Air Force, the only such unit activated in the South Pacific area.
He immediately flew secret missions and helped establish an air base at Buna, New Guinea. Then he entered combat missions Aug. 15. His duties called for flights over enemy bases.
He was first shot down on Wewak Sept. 2 and crashed in the jungle. Aided by native he made his way to the southern coast and returned to Port Moresby. He was given a two week rest period.
It was Nov. 19, 1943, that he was shot down the second time.
Lt. Smith was credited with seven enemy planes and was one of only 119 in a squadron of 5, 000 to get the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Surviving are the parents; two brothers, Marion of Kentland av and Earl R. at home; a niece and nephew, and a sister-in-law.
Portsmouth Times, Portsmouth, Oh, June 2, 1939
John David Smith
John David Smith, 65, native of Greenup county, died at 1:15 p.m. Thursday at the home of a daughter Mrs. Jessie Felty of Sciotodale. He had been ill for the last month of a heart ailment.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, and these children; Mrs. Felty, Mrs. Virginia Semones, Mrs. Verna Lindeman of Sciotoville, Elwood Smith of Raceland, Forest and Duncan Smith of Greenup, Clyde Smith of Cincinnati, Mrs. Cora Walker of Newport, Mrs. Nora Logan of Portsmouth.
He also leaves these brothers and sister; James Smith of Flatwoods, Ky., Frank Smith of Delbarton, W.Va., Charles Smith of Greenup, Robert and Joshua Smith of Raceland, Mrs. Laura Connell of Columbus and Mrs. Eddie Burgess of Russell.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sciotodale Freewill Baptist church, where Mr. Smith was a member. Rev. R. L. Rankins will officiate and burial will be in Belfount cemetery at Flatwoods, under the direction of Emrick. The body is at the Felty home.
