Fay Harold Smith

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Fay Harold Smith was born on the 7th of March 1892 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He died on the 23rd of January 1934 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Fay Smith was working as a shipping clerk for the Atlas Supply Company in Muskogee, Oklahoma when he met Opal Mary Carey. Fay Smith married Opal Carey on the 3rd of February 1914. Fay and Opal Smith lived in Muskogee, Oklahoma at 307 Felix Street.

In 1915 Fay’s wife, Opal, gave birth to a boy, but he died a few days later. In 1917 Fay Smith received a deferment from the draft board for being recently married. In 1919 Opal gave birth to her second son, but tragic struck again and that baby died shortly after birth as well.

By 1930 Fay and Opal Smith were living in Casper, Wyoming. Fay Smith had started working as a salesman for the Williamsport Wire Rope company, which sent him and Opal to live in Wyoming and Oregon for a few years.

Later in 1930 Fay Smith was relocated by his employer to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Fay and Opal Smith moved into the Sophian Park Plaza at 1500 South Frisco Avenue. In the summer of 1933 Fay Smith was laid off from the Williamsport Wire Rope company. He did find another job as a life insurance salesman but was later found dead from suicide on the 24th of January 1934 on a road in Sands Springs.

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