1. Willie Washington Smith (William Washington or W. W.)  (October1886, Campbell, Hunt Co., Texas - 20 February 1978, Tempe Community Hospital, Maricopa Co., Arizona
         Buried by LDS, 31st Ward
        Married 1904 in Grayson Co., Texas to Liddia Jane Hendrix
     2. Pearl Grace Smith (June 1892, Hunt Co., Texas - June 1980, Whitewright, Grayson Co., Texas
         Buried Rose Hill Cemetery at Bells, Grayson Co., Texas
         Married July 1909, Savoy, Fannin Co., Texas to Hosea Monroe Rose (April 1891, Marshville, Webster Co., Missouri - February, 1965, Sherman, Grayson Co., Texas
         Buried Rose Hill Cemebery, Bells, Texas   
     3.  Ethel Mae Smith (January  1894 near Rockwall, Rockwall Co., Texas - September 1981 Abilene, Taylor Co., Texas
          Buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Bells, Grayson Co., Texas
          Married 1911 to Marion Lee Rose  (brother of Hosea M. Rose)
     4. Charles Smith (Charley) (November 1897, Rockwall, Rockwall Co., Texas - June 1975, Savoy, Fannin Co., Texas
          Buried Savoy, Fannin Co., Texas in Sunny Side Cemetery
          Married January 1921 in Bells, Grayson Co., Texas to Jenny L. Lawrence (December 1901 - August 1974, Savoy, Fannin Co., Texas)
     5.  Bertie Lee Smith (bef 1900 - ca1900, as infant)
     6.  Roy Davis Smith (February 1902 - August 1919)
          Drowned at age 17
          Buried Hebron Cemetery, near his parents
          Never married
     7.  Edith Leona Smith (February 1909, Ely, Fannin Co., Texas - 24 July 1981, Sherman, Grayson Co., Texas)
         Married Sept ember1930 in Bryan Co., Oklahoma to Alfred R. Woodruff 
         Alfred (1902 Rutherford Co., Tennessee - September 1965, Sherman, Grayson Co., Texas
         s/o John Wilson Woodruff & Mary E. Bowman, both from Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., Tennessee
         Both are buried at Cedarlawn Cemetery, Grayson Co., Texas (Hwy 75, between Sherman/Denison)

Sherman Democrat
September 1941
JEFF DAVIS SMITH:

 J. D. Smith. Savoy, Texas.
Services for J. D. Smith, 79, farmer who died 8 p.m. Thursday at his home north of Savoy, are to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Baptist church with Rev A. R. Cunningham officiating. Mr. Smith had been ill two years. Mikel-Brown of Bonham will direct interment at the Hebron cemetery. A native of Alabama, Mr. Smith was born November 25, 1861, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pryor Smith. He had lived in this community 40 years. He was a Baptist.
Surviving are his wife, to whom he was married 56 years ago; 2 sons Will Smith of Sherman and Charlie Smith of Savoy; 3 daughters Mrs Pearl Rose of Bells, Mrs Ethel Rose of Savoy and Mrs A. R. Woodruff of Sherman;  33 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
 

Sherman Democrat
Denison Herald 
August 31, 1963 - Sept 1, 1963

MRS MARY E. (McClendon) Smith:
Woman with 122 Descendants Dies.
Bells - Mrs Mary E. Smith, 97, of Bells died at 10:40 a. m. Saturday in a Sherman hospital (Grayson Co). She is survived by 122 direct descendants. Funeral services will be held at Earnheart Chapel, Whitewright, conducted by Rev Maurice Martin, Baptist minister of Savoy. Burial will be in Hebron Cemetery.
Mrs. Smith was born May 15, 1866 in Lebanon, Tennessee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. McClendon and married J. D. Smith June 18, 1884 in Cumby, Texas. She had lived in Hunt and Fannin counties since her marriage and for the past several years made her home with a daughter, Mrs M. L. Rose of Bells. She was a member of the Savoy Baptist Church.
Survivors are  2 sons Will Smith of Phoenix, Arizona, and Charlie Smith of Sherman; 3 daughters, Mrs M. L. Rose and Mrs H. M. Rose of Bells and Mrs Edith Woodruff of Sherman;  26 grandchildren, 66 great grandchildren and 25 great great grandchildren. 

 (2) Mrs Mary Smith Rites Set Tuesday.
Bells (Spl.) - Mrs Mary E. Smith, 97, died in a Sherman hospital at 10:40 a. m. Saturday Aug 31, 1963. She made her home with a daughter, Mrs M. L. Rose in Bells. Funeral services will be held at the Earnheart Funeral chapel. She was born May 15, 1866 at Lebanon, Tennessee, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. W. K. McClendon. She married J. D. Smith, June 18, 1884 at Cumby, Texas. Mrs Smith had lived in Hunt and Fannin Counties since 1884.
Funeral Home brochure : Officiating Ministers were Rev Maurice Martin and Rev Robert F. Burnett. Pallbearers Charlie Rose, Ray Smith, Leslie Smith, Coy Smith, Udell Smith
 

Arizona Republic Newspaper
February 22, 1978
pg. C-8

Mesa, Arizona - Services for Willie Washington Smith, 91, a retired farmer who came to Arizona 37 years ago (ca1941) will be at 1 p.m. today in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 31st Ward Chapel, 454 N. Crismon. Mr. Smith of 331 S. 90th Pl, died February 20, 1978 in Tempe Community Hospital.
Survivors include children, Nadine Drake, Frances Weatherford, Effie Biggs, Opal Haywork, Coy and R. D. Smith; 3 sisters, 25 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren. Gibbons-Bunker Garden Chapel handled arrangements.
 

Sherman Democrat
June 19, 1980

Bells - Services for Mrs Pearl Rose. 87, Bells housewife who died Thursday at a Whitewright nursing home will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at Mullican-Little Funeral Chapel in Bells, conducted by Rev Roy Hill of Bells and Rev H. A. Lomance, Baptist minister of Denison. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bells.
Mrs Rose was born in Hunt County, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Smith. She was married to H. M. Rose July 9, 1909 in Savoy. She was a member of the Baptist Church and had lived in Grayson and Fannin counties all of her life.
Surviving are her sons: A. J. Rose of Watts, Oklahoma, Monroe Rose and Leon Rose both of Sweetwater; daughters Fae Ford, Mrs Treva Catlett and Mrs Elva Goracke all of Bells and Mrs Winnie Oden of Blackwell; sisters Mrs. Lee Rose of Abilene and Mrs. Edith Woodruff of Sherman;  37 grandchildren, 72 great-grandchildren and 9 great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers are grandsons.
Funeral home brochure repeated some of above and added that she was born June 13, 1892 and died June 19, 1980.
 

Sherman Democrat
February 24, 1965

Services for Marion Lee Rose, 82, retired Hardwicke-Etter employee of Bells who died Wednesday at a Sherman hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Mullican-Little Chapel, conducted by Rev Roy Hill and Rev Orville Lamance. Burial will be at Rose Hill.
A Marshville, Missouri native, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Rose and married Ethel Smith on November 5, 1911 in Savoy. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife; sons Charlie Rose of Oklahoma City and Marion Rose of Abilene; 6 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
 

Sherman Democrat
July 11, 1975

Savoy - Services for Charlie Smith, 77, retired Katy Railroad employee of Savoy who died Wednesday at a Sherman Hospital will be held at 2:30 p. m. at Mullican-Little Funeral Chapel in Bells, conducted by Rev George Clinton and Rev Jerald Watkins, Baptist ministers of Sherman. Burial will be at Sunnyside Cemetery at Savoy. 
A native of Hunt County, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Smith and married Jennie Lawrence in Bells on January 30, 1921. A Baptist, he lived in Grayson and Fannin counties most of his life.
Surviving are a son Ray Smith of Bells; daughters Mrs. Hazel Minnick of Sherman, Mrs. Ruth Moore of Savoy, Mrs. Mary Lou Harvey of Denton and Mrs. Edna Faye Stevens of McKinney; brother W. W. Smith of Phoenix Arizona; sisters Mrs. Pearl Rose and Mrs. Lee Rose, both of Bells and Mrs. Edith Woodruff of Sherman; 13 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Funeral brochure of same time:  gives his birth as Nov 2, 1897, and lists Pallbearers:  J. C. Moore, Ralph Ramsey, Morris Ballew, Larry Little, Curtis Horton, Brown Bibby.
 

Sherman Democrat
July 25, 1981

Services for Edith Woodruff, 72, Medical Plaza Hospital employee who died at work Friday, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday in Dannel and Horton Chapel.  Rev, R. M. Williams of East Sherman Baptist Church will officiate and burial will be in Cedarlawn Memorial Park.
Mrs Woodruff was born February 25, 1909 in Ambrose, the daughter of J. D. and Mary Etta McClendon Smith, attended Ector schools and was married to Alfred R. Woodruff. She was a member of East Sherman Baptist Church.
Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Sam Terrana of Fort Worth; a sister Mrs. Ethel Rose of Abilene; 3 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Sam Terrana, Steve Terrana, John Ball, George Cole, Jack Baldwin and Louis Britton.
*NOTE:  error, should have said Joyce Terrrana (or Mrs. Sal Terrana, not Sam)
 

Sherman Democrat
September 29, 1965

In Memoriam
ALFRED WOODRUFF, 62 Dies, Rites Planned
Funeral services will be held at 10 A. M. Friday in Barrett Funeral Chapel here for Alfred Rudolph Woodruff, 62, of 916 E. Cherry, retired Lone Star Gas Co. serviceman, who died at 6:40 a. m. Wednesday in a Sherman hospital.  Rev R. M. Williams, pastor of the East Sherman Baptist Church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Cedarlawn Memorial Park.
Mr Woodruff was born December 21, 1902 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Woodruff. On September 27, 1928 he married Miss Edith Smith in Hendrix, Oklahoma. He grew up in Wolfe City and attended school there. He came to Sherman from Savoy in 1955 and retired last May because of failing health. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors besides his wife are a daughter, Mrs. Joyce Terrana of Fort Worth; 3 grandchildren; 3 brothers, Hildred Woodruff of Lubbock, Sidney Woodruff of Ector and Erskine Woodruff of Marshall; 2 sisters, Mrs. Era Sikes of Lubbock and Mrs. Mildred Johnson of Whitewright.
NOTE:  Edith and Alfred came from Savoy in 1935 (not 1955).