-Rites Sunday for Mrs. Smoak

Mrs. Carrie  Gray Smoak, 76 widow of the late Furman E. Smoak, 

died at 8:30 a.m. Friday at  Orangeburg Regional Hospital.  

She had been in failing health for several years.  Mrs. Smoak 

lived at Flemington, Fla.  for a good many years until last August, 

when she moved to make her  home with a brother, J.B. Gray, in the 

Fogle Community near Orangeburg.  She was born near Cope a daughter 

of the late Morgan D. and Sallie Smoak Gray and was a member of the 

Edisto Baptist Church.  

Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Edisto Baptist Church 

with the Rev. Mark Osborne officiating.  Burial in the Church cemetery.  

The remains will be at the residence of J. B. Gray until the hour of 

service.  Mrs. Smoak is survived by these stepchildren, Harry Smoak 

and Mrs. Onnie Mixson, both of Flemington, Fla. and Clifton Smoak of 

Greenville, S.C. four sisters, Mrs. Robert Tiner of Orangeburg, Mrs. 

Marie Segrest of Orlando, Fla., Mrs. Theo. Syphrett of Walterboro 

and Mrs. Lucia Bolen of Charleston and four brothers M.D. and J. B. 

Gray both of Orangeburg, R.R. Gray of Jacksonville, Fla. and Jessie 

J. Gray of Florence, and a number of nieces and nephews.  Active 

pollbearers at the funeral was George Gray, William Gray, Wilbar 

Gray, Robert  Tiner, Jr. , Ashton Sypherett and Jessie Gray, Jr.   

Honarory pallbearers was the Deacons of the Edisto Baptist Church 

and  also Tom Williams, C.R. Stroch, Ralph Kirkland, Keyward Dantzler, 

William Stone, Womaw Smoak, Lawton Ashe, Joe Hewitt and Croum Nettles.

Source: from a copy of her obituary obtained from Annabelle Leitner

Note: Mother is shown above as "Sallie"; the headstone is "Sarah".