Manning, Oct. 4 - LeRoy Eldredge Smith of Manning, died early today at Tuomey hospital in Sumter where he was taken Thursday night after his car plunged through the railing of the Santee river bridge causeway near St. Paul. He received fatal injuries about 12 o'clock when he was returning from St. Matthews where he had attended a football game. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Loris Methodist church, conducted by his pastor, the Rev. R. Wright Spears of Manning, assisted by the Rev. B. C. Gleaton. Burial will be in the Loris cemetery. Mr. Smith was born August 22, 1894, in Bowman, the son of the late Richard Joseph and Mrs. Sallie Stroman Smith. After his graduation at Bowman high school he took a course in pharmacy at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina at Charleston. He was a member of the Manning Methodist church. He served in the World war. For the last six months he resided here where he was the pharmacist in the Clarendon cut rate drug store. He came here from Williston where he had worked for several years. He was twice married, first to Miss Ruby Horn. By this marriage there are two children, a son, LeRoy Kirkland Smith of Charleston, and Miss Doris Smith of Bowman. His second wife, the former Miss Marie Russell, survives with two small children, Diane and Ronald Everett Smith of Manning. Surviving are also three brothers, M. J., A. Z. and B. T. Smith of Bowman; two sisters, Mrs. J. C. Evans of Orangeburg and Mrs. C. T. Easterlin of Bowman, and eighteen nieces and nephews. © The News and Courier, Charleston, SC, 5 Oct 1941
Manning, Oct. 4 - LeRoy Eldredge Smith of Manning, died early today at Tuomey hospital in Sumter where he was taken Thursday night after his car plunged through the railing of the Santee river bridge causeway near St. Paul. He received fatal injuries about 12 o'clock when he was returning from St. Matthews where he had attended a football game. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Loris Methodist church, conducted by his pastor, the Rev. R. Wright Spears of Manning, assisted by the Rev. B. C. Gleaton. Burial will be in the Loris cemetery. Mr. Smith was born August 22, 1894, in Bowman, the son of the late Richard Joseph and Mrs. Sallie Stroman Smith. After his graduation at Bowman high school he took a course in pharmacy at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina at Charleston. He was a member of the Manning Methodist church. He served in the World war. For the last six months he resided here where he was the pharmacist in the Clarendon cut rate drug store. He came here from Williston where he had worked for several years. He was twice married, first to Miss Ruby Horn. By this marriage there are two children, a son, LeRoy Kirkland Smith of Charleston, and Miss Doris Smith of Bowman. His second wife, the former Miss Marie Russell, survives with two small children, Diane and Ronald Everett Smith of Manning. Surviving are also three brothers, M. J., A. Z. and B. T. Smith of Bowman; two sisters, Mrs. J. C. Evans of Orangeburg and Mrs. C. T. Easterlin of Bowman, and eighteen nieces and nephews. © The News and Courier, Charleston, SC, 5 Oct 1941
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