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Ada May <I>Smith</I> Like

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Ada May Smith Like

Birth
Comanche County, Texas, USA
Death
8 Aug 1924 (aged 32)
Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA
Burial
Bluff Dale, Erath County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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She was the daughter of Jessie Jackson Smith (1873 Bosque Co., TX - 1931 Abilene, TV) and Ellen Foster Orman (1875 Tx - 1961 Freestone Co, Tx). She married William Crockett Like 6 June 1913 at Bluff Dale, TX.

Ada and Crockett and their children had gone to West Texas to pick cotton. They lived with her parents in Ira, TX. Ada became pregnant - it was a tubal. She had complications and died. Crockett brought her body back to Bluff Dale on the train. Her father brought the children back. Loree Like Rogers, sister of Crockett, remembers going to Bluff Dale at night to meet the train. She said she could hear the train whistle a long way away and thought it was the most dreary thing she had ever heard [information courtesy Barbara Kirkland].
She was the daughter of Jessie Jackson Smith (1873 Bosque Co., TX - 1931 Abilene, TV) and Ellen Foster Orman (1875 Tx - 1961 Freestone Co, Tx). She married William Crockett Like 6 June 1913 at Bluff Dale, TX.

Ada and Crockett and their children had gone to West Texas to pick cotton. They lived with her parents in Ira, TX. Ada became pregnant - it was a tubal. She had complications and died. Crockett brought her body back to Bluff Dale on the train. Her father brought the children back. Loree Like Rogers, sister of Crockett, remembers going to Bluff Dale at night to meet the train. She said she could hear the train whistle a long way away and thought it was the most dreary thing she had ever heard [information courtesy Barbara Kirkland].


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