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Note for: Bertha Annas Smithgall, 14 MAY 1894 - 11 MAY 1906
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Burial: Place: Montoursville Cemetery, Lycoming Co., PA
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Note for: Lulu Ester S. Smithgall, 14 AUG 1894 - 11 OCT 1994
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Burial: Place: Montoursville Cemetery, Lycoming Co., PA
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Note for: Herman Frederick Smithgall, 12 SEP 1897 - 31 JUL 1968
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Burial: Place: Montoursville Cemetery, Lycoming Co., PA
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Note for: Gladys Clarabel Smithgall, 13 NOV 1907 - 4 AUG 2001
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Burial: Place: East Canton Cemetery, Tioga, PA
Individual Note: Gladys C. Tarbox
Post Date: 8/8/01
Williamsport Sun Gazette
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On the afternoon of Saturday, August 4, 2001, the Lord called home the soul of former Canton resident Gladys Clarabel Tarbox while she was convalescing at Elcor Health Center in Horseheads, NY. She was 93 years of age. Born in Williamsport, Nov. 13, 1907, she was the youngest child of John and Clara Bell (Reeser) Smithgall. Gladys was married to the late Charles Tarbox. A memorial service and celebration of her life will be held Saturday, Aug. 25 at 2 p.m., at the Canton Ecumenical Parish, with Pastor Dean Walrath & Pastor Don Rockwell, officiating. A time of visitation from 1 to 2 p.m. will preceded the service, during which the members of Canton Chapter 71, O.E.S. will conduct their traditional funeral service. Interment will follow in the East Canton Cemetery. Morse & Kleese Funeral Home of Canton.
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Note for: Lynwood T. Smithgall, 6 MAR 1920 - 24 JUN 1996
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Individual Note: The 1930 census lists Linwood T. Smithgall, 10, living with his grandmother, Clara Kryder, 68 at 114 Washington Street, Lock Haven, Clinton Co., PA. Both born in PA; neither is employed. Clara owns her house which is valued at $2000.
The 1920 census lists Clara Kryder, 59, widowed, living at 114 Washington Street, Lock Haven, Clinton Co., PA. She owns the house and has apparently rented part of it to Jennie Hubler, 38; Joseph Bowen, 58; and Charles Gaugler, 20. Clara's mother was born in Germany. Clara is not employed.
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Note for: Jennie E. Chapman, JUL 1870 - 27 NOV 1947
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Burial: Place: Montoursville Cemetery, Lycoming Co., PA
Individual Note: Mrs. Smithgall died at the home of her daughter, Edith Smithgall Ging.
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Note for: David Thomas Smithgall, 4 MAR 1891 - 13 DEC 1955
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Burial: Place: Montoursville Cemetery, Lycoming Co., PA
Individual Note: Owned Harness Racing horses.
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Note for: Edith Joy Smithgall, 6 MAY 1894 - OCT 1987
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Individual Note: from the Williamsport Sunday Grit, Sunday, June 1, 1919
The engagement of Harry A. Ging of Akron, Ohio and Edith J. daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Walter D. Smithgall of Wallis Run has been announced.
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Note for: Anna M. Cahill, 1883 -
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Place: Christian Hill Cem., Hill section, middle
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Note for: Theodore "Dory" Palmer, SEP 1857 - AFT 1930
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Individual Note: 1900: Theodore R. Palmer, b. Sept 1857, wife, Alice, b. Feb. 1873 and son, Theodore B., b. Dec 1897 living at 760 51st St in Philadelphia, PA.
1910: There is a Theodore B. Palmer, 50 living in Philadelphia in 1910, with wife, Alice E., 32 and son, Theodore B., 12. All born in PA. Theodore is a dry dock worker.
1920: Theodore Palmer, 60 living in at 4925 Hazel Avenue, Philadelphia in , with wife, Alice E., 41 and son, Theodore B., 22. All born in PA. Theodore is a manager for a ship repainting company.
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Note for: Theodore B. Palmer, DEC 1897 -
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Individual Note: 1930: Theodore B. Palmer, Jr. 32 and his family live at 4115 Bloomfield Avenue, Upper Darby, Delaware Co., PA. Living with him are his wife, Dorothy H. 20?, sons, Theodore B. III, 5; and Donald H. 3 years 2 months and the father Theodore B. Palmer, Sr., 72 and widowed. Theodore Jr. is a manager at at ship refining business.
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Note for: Charles A. Smithgall, 17 OCT 1910 - 19 AUG 2002
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Individual Note: Obituary from AccessNorthGa.com
Charles A. Smithgall Jr., 91, of 1500 Habersham Drive, Gainesville, died Monday at his residence following an extended illness.
Graveside services will be private. A memorial service will be held at 4:00pm, Friday, August 23, 2002, at First Baptist Church. The family will greet friends in the foyer of the church after the service.
Mr. Smithgall is survived by his wife of 68 years, Celestia "Lessie" Bailey Smithgall; three sons, Charles A. Smithgall III and his wife Sally, John F. Smithgall and his wife, Elaine, all of Atlanta, and Thurmond Smithgall, New York, N.Y.; grandchildren, Jonathan, Jason, David, Charles A. IV, Meghan and Jessica, all of Atlanta; and a number of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Bailey "Bay" Smithgall Watts; and his sister, Lillian Smithgall Pinkerton.
Mr. Smithgall was born October 17, 1910, in Aycock, Florida. (near Chipley). He was the son of Charles A. Smithgall Sr., a lumberman, of Montoursville, Pa., and Emma Elizabeth Tomlin of Sylacauga, Ala. He attended elementary schools in Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee, Marion Institute in Marion, Ala., Boys High School in Atlanta, and graduated from Gainesville High School in 1929. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1933 with a degree in general science.
In the early days of radio, Mr. Smithgall was one of the pioneer broadcasters. He was a student announcer on Tech's radio station, WGST, and was hired by the station as a staff announcer. Later he became program director and assistant manager. He left WGST for WSB in 1936 to become a personality on the "Morning Merry-Go-Round," where he was known to early-risers in several states as "Old man Smithgall's son Charles." His cow "Daisy," whom he milked every morning (via sound effects), was familiar to all his listeners.
When a tornado hit Gainesville on April 6, 1936, WSB was first to broadcast the news. Smithgall went to Gainesville, and from a front porch on Broad Street he reported the scene in the dark and rain for WSB and the NBC network.
Smithgall founded WGGA with friends in 1941, then became an executive with Storer Broadcasting with stations in Atlanta and Miami. He moved back to Gainesville in 1946 to convert the weekly Eagle into a daily newspaper. The Times began operation in 1947 as the Gainesville Daily Times. Smithgall later started the Poultry Times and Southeastern Poultry Times, which were published in the Times' plant. Those publications later merged with Poultry & Egg News. In 1981, Gannett Co. Inc., purchased The Times and the poultry publications.
Smithgall had begun acquiring radio stations in Rome and Gadsden, Ala., in the 1950s, and in 1966 started Rome Cable TV Company. It was during this time that he also founded WRNG in Atlanta, which later became WCNN.
In 1963 he formed Georgia Community Papers Inc. with Gwinnett Publishing Co. to publish the Gwinnett Daily News along with a number of weeklies. He sold this interest to the New York Times in 1987. At one time, he also owned an interest in the Selma, Ala., Times.
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Smithgall bought cable TV franchises serving the Chattanooga area, parts of DeKalb County and Walker County in the 1970s and '80s. He sold all his cable TV interests to The E.W. Scripps Co. in 1983.
Smithgall had acquired a love of the environment from his father, who took his young son fishing in the afternoons in North Florida streams and lakes. With most of his holdings disposed of, he focused on what would become his proudest achievement. From 1983 to 1994, he assembled some 5,500 acres in White County, along historic Dukes Creek, to develop as a conservation and preservation area. When asked why he did this, he said, "I could say because I'm a great conservationist, but that's not true. I did it because it was fun." He also said, "I'm trying to take it with me, but I haven't figured out a way to do it." This later became Smithgall Woods through a gift/purchase arrangement to the state of Georgia and was dedicated as a heritage preserve under Preservation 200.
He had become fond of the area while in high school, and he and his family picnicked there often in later years. Distressed at damage done to the stream and woods through neglect and abuse, Smithgall spent millions in restoration efforts, even taking out undesirable trees with a team of horses to lessen damage to the environment.
In 2000 the family donated 168 acres of its Hall County property off Cleveland Road to the Atlanta Botanical Garden for an arboretum. Last year the Smithgalls purchased, repaired and donated the former First Methodist Church building in downtown Gainesville to The Arts Council. They also announced a $1 million challenge grant to The Arts Council. The Arts Council Depot was renamed the Smithgall Arts Center. In memory of his former boss, a pioneer in radio, Smithgall established the Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The family also donated about $170, 000 to establish an animal shelter in White County.
Smithgall had served his church and community in the following capacities: deacon and Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church; trustee emeritus of Brenau University and Gainesville College; member of the board of regents of the University System of Georgia; member of the Georgia Tech National Advisory Board, Joint Tech-Georgia Development Fund; trustee of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association; and member of the Governor's Commission to Education.
Among numerous honors, he received the Di Gamma Kappa Pioneer of Georgia Broadcasting Award and was one of 100 Georgians of the Century named by Trend Magazine in 2000. He also earned the Ed Dodd Conservation Award from Elachee Nature Science Center, and the Conservationist of the Year Award from the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association. The Student Services Building at Georgia Tech bears his name.
In lieu of flowers, those wishing to do so may make memorials to Zoo Atlanta, 800 Cherokee Ave. S.E., Atlanta, GA 30315, for the Charles Bailey Endowment Fund for Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Student Research Scholarship; or to The Arts Council, P.O. Box 1632, Gainesville, GA 30503, for the restoration of the old First United Methodist Church building.
University of Georgia
March 2003: Vol. 82, No. 2
Class Notes, Grad Notes, and Obituaries
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Charles Smithgall, Jr. of Gainesville, a conservationist, philanthropist and media magnate, died Aug. 19, 2002. During his career Smithgall built an empire of radio stations, cable television and newspapers and built one paper into what is now the Gainesville Times, which he sold in 1981 for $18 million. But he will be best remembered for assembling and restoring 5,562 acres of land in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which he sold to the state of Georgia in 1994 at half its appraised value to protect its old-growth forests, trout streams and other wildlife. Now known as Smithgall Woods, his land is over five times the size of neighboring Unicoi State Park. Smithgall went to great lengths, working since the 1970s, to restore the land's natural state: he and a staff of workers hauled out truckloads of garbage from the land's streams and planted thousands of indigenous trees.
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Note for: Durwin Smithgall, 17 AUG 1924 - 21 AUG 1938
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Burial: Place: Westville Cemetery, Holmes Co., Florida