Flossie Jewell (Gilley) Smith (1914 - 2004)

Born 4 Jun 1914 in Woodbury, Cannon, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Roy Wesley Smith — married 26 Dec 1929 in Warren, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 11 May 2004 at age 89 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Flossie (Gilley) Smith was born in Appalachia, in Tennessee.

Jewell was born in Woodbury, Tennessee, on June 4, 1914, to William Marion Gilley, a farmer, and Elizabeth Prater.^[1] Her mother died of tuberculosis when she was only six years old.

She married Roy Wesley Smith, son of William Edward Smith and Maudy Blanton, on December 26, 1929, in Warren County.^[2] They lived in Madison, Tennessee, and had six known children, including:^{[3] [4]}

• 1931-2002: Freda, m. 1st Thomas Estes, 1948; m. 2nd Bobbie Mack Estes, 1954
• 1932-1936: Buford Wayne, died young, after a kick from a cow
• 1937-2020: Wilma Louise, m. Hon. James Oxendine, <1962

Roy died on November 25, 1994, at the age of 83.^[5] Jewell lived another ten years, passing on May 11, 2004.^[6] They are buried together with their son, Buford, at Blues Hill Cemetery in Warren County, Tennessee.^{[7] [8]}

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNGW-X1M : 3 February 2021), Flossie J Gilley in entry for William M Gilley, 1920.
2. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHQ-X3X3 : 10 March 2021), Roy W Smith and Jewell Gilley, 26 Dec 1929; citing Warren, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,012,282.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP7L-P7M : accessed 11 March 2021), Jewell Smith in household of Maudie Smith, District 11, Warren, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 11A, line 38, family 222, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2283; FHL microfilm 2,342,017.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4HL-Z7B : 11 January 2021), Jewel Smith in household of Roy Smith, Civil District 1, Wilson, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 95-1, sheet 3A, line 18, family 45, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3950.
5. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JYKB-S25 : 9 January 2021), Roy W Smith, 25 Nov 1994; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
6. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JGHK-3NG : 11 January 2021), Jewell G Smith, 11 May 2004; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
7. ↑ FindAGrave memorial 18555883 for Roy Wesley Smith.
8. ↑ FindAGrave memorial 18555921 for Jewell Smith.