Person:Clyde Smith (25)

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Clyde William Smith was born Jan. 4, 1926, in Meadville, the son of Mrs. Marian Frances Smith, of Rocky Grove, and the late Clarence W. Smith. He attended Rocky Grove High School and in April, 1943, enlisted in the U.S. Army Field Artillery. He served two and one-half years in the Army during World War II and spent a part of his service overseas, seeing action on the western front in Europe.

He was last employed as a clerk by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company.

In addition to his mother, he is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Richard Snyder, of Franklin; Ellwood Smith, a student in the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Philadelphia; Colleen, Keith, Corliss, Patricia, Carol, Jerome, and Lois; all at home.

Funeral services for Clyde W. Smith, of 214 Front Street, Rocky Grove, veteran of World War II, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident in Cleveland, O., last Saturday, were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Buchanan Funeral Home by Rev. Harold L. Loveless, pastor of Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church.

During the services, Rev. Loveless read the poems "Sometime" and "There Is No Death."

Burial was in Lupher Chapel Cemetery with the following as pallbearers: David Nestor, Russell McKain, Jack Kightlinger, Robert Graham, Glenn McClelland and Lavern Simanansen.

Groups of war veterans representing the Franklin Post of the American Legion and the Jesse G. Greer Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in command of John E. Graham, paid military honors to the memory of the deceased at the grave. A salute of three volleys was fired over the grave and Lawrence Stadtler sounded "Taps."

Mr. Smith died in the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, O., from injuries received when a new car in which he was riding crashed into a tree on Euclid Avenue. He died a few hours after the accident.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} SweetPeabjb. """Internet: Ancestry.com, Public Member Tree - Dougan Family Tree. (Name: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/11305752/person/-288013073;).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Tipton, Jim, Compiler, Find a Grave
   Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012; Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg, accessed 17 March 2015.

   Clyde William "Bill" Smith; Memorial # 28671338, Record added 31 July 2008

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 1930 U.S. Census, Pennsylvania, Crawford, Population Schedule; NARA Microfilm Publication T626
   Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002; Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls, accessed 21 March 2015.

   Roll 2022, Crawford County, City of Meadville, Ward 3, Precinct 2, Sheet 12A, Stamped Page 139, Supervisor's District 1, Enumeration District 20-28, 12 April 1930, Line 8, 309 South Street, Dwelling 226, Family 302, Clarence W. Smith, age 27

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 1940 U.S. Census, Pennsylvania, Crawford, Population Schedule; NARA Microfilm Publication T627
   Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012; Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls, accessed 21 March 2015.

   Roll 3476, Crawford County, Meadville, Ward 3, Block 7, Sheet 14A, Stamped Page 438, Supervisor's District 29, Enumeration District 20-31, 15 April 1940, Line 4, 1155 Liberty Street, Household 257, Clarence Smith, age 37