OLD SETTLERS PIONEER HONOREES

Philip D. Smitherman has proudly been a lifelong resident of Floyd County. He was born on the family farm in South Plains on October 18, 1933, making him 90 years old. Philip’s parents were E.P. (Ernest) Smitherman and Ruth Childress Smitherman. Philip’s paternal grandfather, P.M. Smitherman, was born in Alabama in 1873 and moved to Wise County, Texas, in 1889. P.M. moved h...