This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goddard, Smedley Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/931 Message Board Post: I am indexing our local papers (Ouachita Parish, Louisiana) and came across this 1910 Obituary in our paper that I thought someone could use. No clue as to why they ran this one down here. I have no connections with this family, just wanted to see if I could help anyone! The Monroe News-Star Wednesday, February 16, 1910 Page 4, Column 3 MRS. NINA GODDARD DEAD. Her Father Established First Sunday School at Fort Smith Holdenville, Okla., Feb. 15.-The death occurred here of Mrs. Nina Goddard, who was born in 1833 on a steamboat at Philadelphia, Pa. Her father, Rev. James Smedley, had been sent by the Missionary Baptist Board of Philadelphia to work among the Indians, and in such a capacity he established the first Sunday school at Fort Smith, Ark. Mrs. Goddard is survived by her husband, C.E. Goddard, who, at one time while conducting services in an outlaw community sat in the pulpit with a loaded rifle while his companion preached.