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08-Cecil Wayne Smiley
Birth: 30 May 1900, Spickard, Grundy Co, MO
Home: Grundy Co, MO; Wayne Co, MI; Riverside Co, CA
Death: 24 Dec 1979, VA Hospital, San Diego City/Co, CA- age 79
Burial: 28 Dec 1979, Riverside National Cemetery-- cremated
Occupation: Mechanic, foreman, SSN: 367-07-9039/MI
Education: High School-- 10th grade
Military: US Army, WW1: Corporal, 542 US Motor Transport Corps, France
Mother: Cora Leurenda Jane Garriott
[photos courtesy of Cecilia Ann Smiley: 1st Cecil and famly, 2nd the Smiley girls, 3rd Cecil Wayne Smiley]

Marriage: 7 Aug 1920, Chillicothe, Livingston Co, MO
1st Spouse: Marie Garnet? BOYLE
Birth: 10 Jun 1902, Trenton, Grundy Co, MO
Death: 14 Jan 1929, bur. Masonic Cemetery @ Trenton, Grundy Co, MO- age 27, of tuberculosis

     1ST MARRIAGE: Cecil Marie Garnet had a daughter:
09--GARNET MARIE SMILEY [b. 15 Jan 1922, Trenton, Grundy Co, MO]. Garnet 1st married James "Junior" A HANCOCK [d. 1981, Detroit, Wayne Co, MI] in 1939/40, he was in the US Navy, they divorced. He took their two children away from Garnet. She was not reunited with them again until they were adults.
     Garnet 2nd married Robert William JERNIGAN [b. 27 Apr 1917, Detroit, Wayne Co, MI; d. 7 Mar 1981, Greenbriar, Robertson Co, TN- of heart attack- age 63], SSN: 364-03-5670/MI, US National Guard Sargeant, Field Artillery, son of John W Jernigan and Ethel Lee Spain, on 7 Sep 1946, Detroit, Wayne Co, MI, had four daughters.

Marriage: 2 Jul 1932, Trenton, Grundy Co, MO, Rev Todd @ home of Grace Woodall
2nd Spouse: Haddie FRANKS
Birth: 20 Aug 1911, West Brownsville, Washington Co, PA
Home: Riverside Co, CA
Death: 26 Mar 2001, Prescott, Yavapai Co, AZ- age 89
Burial: Riverside National Cemetery
Father: Abraham Franks
Mother: Catharine Worrell

     2ND MARRIAGE: Cecil second married Haddie FRANKS, who he met at a wedding. Although Haddie was engaged to someone else, Cecil told her she wasn't marrying anyone else but him. They married three days later. [Cecilia Ann Smiley] 6 They had four daughters:
09--ELEANOR GRACE SMILEY [b. 24 Oct 1933, Laredo, Grundy Co, MO], m. Lloyd Gene BRUNING [b. 14 Jul 1928, Wright City, Montgomery Co, MO], a Plumber on 4 Sep 1953, St. Charles, St. Charles Co, MO. They lived in Franklin Co, MO and Prescott, Yavapai Co, AZ, had three children.
09--DONNA LEE SMILEY [b. 11 Jun 1935, Detroit, Wayne Co, MI], first married Hobert Edward HUEFFMEIER [b. 1926, Warrenton, Warren Co, MO] in 1951, in Warrenton, Warren Co, MO, had two sons:
     Donna Lee second married Floyd Dean CHAMBERS [b. 17 Feb 1934, Centralia, Clinton Co, IL] on 13 Feb 1960, Illinois, he a Construction Contractor and had two sons.
09--SALLY JO SMILEY [b. 17 Sep 1937, Detroit, Wayne Co, MI], a school secretary, m. Hubert William FOSTER [b. 1 Aug 1929, St. Louis, St. Louis Co, MO], he a VP Sales, Ford Motor Company on 18 Aug 1957, Mississippi. They lived in Franklin Co, MO and Spring, Harris Co, TX, had two children; and
09--CECILIA ANN "CEE" SMILEY.

     CENSUS:
     1930 Detroit, Wayne Co, MI census: has Cecil Smiley 29, b. MO, a Widow & Lodger, Foreman-Steel Parts Plant, in the household of Robert Cochell 28, b. MO, Shipping Clerk-Steel Parts Plant; and Josephine Cochell 22; with a 2 year old child and a servant: Christine Hall 59, b. Scotland, a Widow, Housekeeper-Private Family.
     1940 Detroit, Wayne Co, MI census: has Cecil Smiley 39, b. MO, Clerk **-Auto Factory; P Haddie Smiley 28, b. PA, Operator-Telephone; Elneor G Smiley 6, b. MO; Donna Lee Smiley 4, b. MI; Sally Jo Smiley 2, b. MI; Mary Popa 52, b. Romania, Janitress-Public School; and Lawrence Holeman 24, b. WA, Typesetter-Printing Press.

     MILITARY: 23 Cecil enlisted in the army on 26 Jun 1918 [US 3.083.858] at Trenton, Grundy Co, MO, and was honorably discharged on 17 Jul 1919, Camp Taylor, KY. He was a corporal in the 526 Motor Transport Corps, stationed in Lyon, France. From his pension application file he appeared to have ridden a motorcycle in the performance of his duties.

     PENSION: 23 Cecil applied for a pension [claim C1.216.147] claiming disability by motorcycle in April 1919 causing appendicitis for which he received treatment at the Base Hospital in Lyon, France. An appendectomy was performed in Trenton, MO, after discharge from the army. He received a 25% disability pension in 1930. His VA medical evaluation in Feb 1964 states he, "Worked for the St Louis Arsenal until 1959 for 15 years, before that had worked for Ford in Detroit for five years. He worked out here [Sun Valley, CA] for the Kenskill Trailer Company as a foreman for five years, and hasn't been able to go back to work since May 1963." The VA rated him totally disabled in Feb 1964, at the age of 64.

     BIOGRAPHY: "We owned a farm in Wright City, MO where I grew up. Everything started to go bad a few years after the Korean War. Dad leased out his fields and worked at the McQuaw Norris Plant in St Louis, where they made bullets for the big guns. The plant shut down and we moved to California." [Cecilia Ann Smiley] 6
     The Franks men in Haddie's family were Pennsylvania coal miners, or "coal pickers." The Worrell family came to the United States from Ireland. [Cecilia Ann Smiley]