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Mrs. Elizabeth (Goode) Smith. The agricultural interests of Sebastian County, Ark., are well represented by the lady whose name heads this sketch, and who was born in Alabama January 5, 1827. Her father, Holbert Goode, was also a native of Alabama, and died in 1833, and three years later Mrs. Smith removed with her mother to Arkansas, locating in Franklin County. Here Mrs. Smith spent her early life, and was married in 1845 to Pleasant W. Richardson, who was born in Georgia January 11, 1815, and a son of William Richardson. He died in 1848, leaving a wife and two children to mourn his loss: Mrs. Emily J. Smith, of Texas, and Mrs. Mary E. Colter, now residing in California. In 1851 she was married to her second husband, John W. Putnam, a son of Samuel and Mary Putnam (the former from Vermont), and three children, Mrs. Sarah J. Hill, Mrs. Lucy Carroll, and John H. blessed their union. Lucy’s husband, Hugh Carroll, was a son of Col. John Carroll, of Carroll County, Ark. He (Hugh) and wife are deceased. Mr. Putman died in 1862. Two years later his widow wedded Augustus H. Smith, who was born in Washington County, Ark., October 8, 1832, and by him became the mother of two children, James A. and Ada G. The father of these children died in 1879; he was a son of Burt and Mary Smith. Since 1851 Mrs. Smith has resided on the farm where she now lives. She at first owned 340 acres of land, but has divided it among her children until she now owns only sixty acres. She moved to Kansas in 1864, but returned to Arkansas in the fall of 1865, where she has been contented to make her home since that time. She is a lady of rare good sense, and is noted for her liberality and charity to the poor and unfortunate.