Harry Carlos SMITH

Notes:

Harry was the first Ford dealer in Calhoun County. He was a member of the Smith Brothers Seafoods Co., a family partnership. With his brother-in-law, W. H. Bauer, he founded the Bauer-Smith Dredging Co. in 1935. Owning extensive property, he and Bauer sold the 3,000-acre Mitchell Point Ranch to Aluminum Company of Amercia in 1947, for the site of the company’s Point Comfort operations. He retained and continued to operate his Wolfe Point Ranch where he also maintained a ranch home.

Harry was a member of the board of directors of First State Bank & Trust Co. in Port Lavaca for over 25 years. He was also a charter director of the Bank of Commerce in Point Comfort. He was a member of the Texas Cattlemen’s Association, the Texas Centennial Commission, the parole board, and Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church.

Died:
at 8:45 a.m. at Champ Traylor Memorial Hospital

Harry married Frankie L. BAUER on 30 Sep 1915. Frankie was born on 28 Aug 1895 in Texas, USA; died on 8 May 1990 in Calhoun County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret Elizabeth SMITH was born on 8 Mar 1917 in Port Lavaca, Calhoun, Texas, USA; died on 11 Oct 2007; was buried in La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA.