Name |
Sarah Belle "Sal" Smith [1] |
Birth |
7 Oct 1916 |
Rockport, Aransas Co, Texas [1] |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
17 Aug 2005 |
Rockport, Aransas Co, Texas |
- OBIT:
Rockport lost a member of one of its pioneer families this week in the passing of Sarah Belle "Sal" Smith. Sal was born October 7, 1916 to Hammond G. "Ham" Smith and Nina Olivia Canevaro Smith in Rockport, Texas. She died Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at the age of 88.
She was the youngest of nine children, all born in Rockport, Fulton and the Blackjack Peninsula. Her grandparents were Francis M. and Arminda Stephenson Smith and Antonio and Lucretia Court DeForest Canevaro, all early settlers in Rockport-Fulton.
Sal attended public school in Rockport and graduated in 1934 without a single absence or tardiness on her record. As a child, she enjoyed all the games and activities of that time which ranged from reading and memorizing poetry to going fishing and crabbing with her older brothers and friends. She liked to recall the time as a child when she accompanied her parents to Laredo to see an uncle. As she remembered it, the roads were dirt ruts and it took two or three days to make the trip. Motels were non-existent and they pitched a tent alongside the road wherever darkness caught them.
After her school years, Sal helped her father run his combination service station and grocery store at the intersection of then Highway 35 and Market Street, the location now occupied by Sipe Real Estate. Established in 1930, it was probably Rockport's first "convenience" store. After her father retired, she managed the business until it was sold in 1961. Years before there was a Firemen's Auxiliary, in which she was an active member for forty years and was an honorary member until the time of her death, Sal would flag down traffic on the highway to clear the way for approaching fire trucks. After health problems curtailed her activities, she moved to Rockport Coastal Care Center where she had been a resident for the last eleven years.
Sal was preceded in death by her parents, and eight siblings. Her brothers were Tom (Alice Armstrong) Smith, Lloyd (Vaughn Brundrett) Smith, Austin (Eula Close) Smith, "Somer" (Sadie Silberisen) Smith and Francis (Cleo Beyers) Smith. Her sisters were Lucretia (Fred) Diederich, Zella "Babe" (Leonard) Casterline and Fay (Alvin) Brundrett. She is survived by several generations of nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.
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Burial |
Rockport Cem, Rockport, Aransas Co, Texas |
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Rockport Cemetery 2040 Tule Park Drive, Rockport, Texas 78382
feature photo found here: http://www.wmisc.com/travel/Texas_08.htm
1.25 mi. E of SH 35, Rockport, TX, USA
Latitude & Longitude: 28° 2' 37.698", -157° 2' 15.3996" S
Texas State Historical Marker
This cemetery has served the citizens of Rockport and Fulton for over a century. The oldest marked grave is that of Emma Fulton (d. 1876), granddaughter of George Ware Fulton, who was instrumental in the development of the area and was interred in the cemetery in 1893. A large number of burials took place here in 1918, the year of a devastating influenza epidemic. The cemetery contains the graves of veterans of the Texas Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. The Rockport Cemetery Association maintains the historic graveyard. (1988)
http://www.stoppingpoints.com/texas/sights.cgi?marker=Rockport+Cemetery&cnty=aransas
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Person ID |
I9684 |
Roots |
Last Modified |
27 Mar 2011 |
Father |
Hammon George Smith, b. 1 Feb 1867, Fulton Town, Aransas Co, Texas d. 15 Jun 1957, Rockport, Aransas Co, Texas (Age 90 years) |
Mother |
Nina Olivia Canevaro, b. 23 Jul 1875, Refugio, Aransas Co, Texas d. 2 May 1951, Aransas Co, Texas (Age 75 years) |
Marriage |
16 Nov 1892 |
Fulton, Aransas Co, Texas [1] |
Family ID |
F3830 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |