Harris Joseph Smith

Notes:

His Texas Death certificate shows his usual occupation as Farmer-Rancher, and his parents as Charlie A. SMITH and Sallie FOX. The informant was his wife, Anna Belle Smith.

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Census Records:

1940 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 6, Bronson
SD 42-21 ED 202-10 Sheet 4A
Enumerated 27 Apr 1940
Mrs. Emma? Johnson, Enumerator
Cemetery Road
66 O $500 Yes
Smith, Harris J Head M W 37 M No 0 Highest grade of school completed Alabama Residence 1935 Rural Dallas Co TX No Yes Common Laborer
Smith, Annie B Wf F W 30 M No 8th Texas Residence 1935 Rural Dallas Tx No No No No Homemaker
Smith, Fred L Son M W 3 S No O Tx
Smith, Robert Son M W 3 months S No O Tx
Ballard, Felix Stepson M W 12 S Yes 4 La R Dallas
Ballard, Dorthy Mae Step Dtr F W 7 S Yes O Tx R Dallas

Harris married Anna Bell Crouch on 3 Jan 1935 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. Anna (daughter of Floyd Leroy Crouch and Zeldia Cordelia Gary) was born on 14 Jul 1909 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas; died on 25 Jan 2000; was buried in Dickerson Cemetery, San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Social Security Death Index shows his final residence as San Antonio, Texas, and the Texas Death Index listed his county of death as Bexar County.

He is also listed in the Ancestry.com. Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012 as well as the Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

The BIRLS Death File shows he enlisted in the Air Force on 12 July 1954 and was released 1 Sep 1977.

Notes:

Services for Bettie Myrtle Dickerson, 74, of San Augustine County, will be in the Wyman Roberts Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow in Dickerson Cemetery in San Augustine County.

Mrs. Dickerson passed away at The Summit in San Augustine, Texas. She was born to parents Harris Joseph Smith and Anna Belle (Crouch) Smith and was a lifelong area resident. Bettie helped many area residents and families while working as an expanded services social worker with Tri-County Community Action Inc. Bettie actively served in the churches of the area as a member, pastor's wife, pianist and other capacities and was also a vital part of the Central Missionary Baptist Association.

Her survivors include her loving husband, Bro. William "Bo" Dickerson; two brothers, Robert Azriel Smith and wife Jeanette and Paul Joseph Smith and wife Nita; daughter, Karen Roxanne Dickerson Mills and her husband Alan Mills; a grandson, Shane Mills III; two granddaughters, Sarrina Jazmine Renee' Mills and Victoria Cheyanne Mills Humphrey and her husband Clayton Humphrey; a great-granddaughter, Cheyanne Humphrey; and a special daughter, Betsy Ross. During her time on this earth she raised or helped raise many of her nieces and nephews who she loved as her own.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Harris Joseph and Anna Belle Smith, along with three of her children; two brothers; her only sister; and numerous nieces, nephews, and other family members.

[obit courtesy contributor to FindAGrave: Bobby Sowell]
Also published in The Sabine County Reporter, September 25, 2019, page 8

Family/Spouse: William Dalton "Bo" Dickerson. William was born on 29 Mar 1946 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; died on 29 May 2020 in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas; was buried on 6 Jun 2020 in Dickerson Cemetery, San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]