Families of Roberta May Carter

ROBERTA MAY CARTER, daughter of JENNIE MAY MACKINTOSH and ROBERT FRANKLIN CARTER, was born October 24, 1913 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri,⁷⁰⁶ and died February 21, 1968 in Lee's Summit, Jackson, Missouri.⁷⁰⁶ She is buried in Lee's Summit Historical Cemetery, Jackson County, Missouri.^{706, 456}

She married (1) ELMER ALLISON SMITH. He was born December 4, 1905 in Holden, Johnson, Missouri.

She married (2) GEORGE DAVID SMALTZ on May 25, 1941 in Jackson County, Missouri.⁸⁴⁶³ He was born October 17, 1902 in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri,⁷⁰⁶ and died February 3, 1964 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri.⁷⁰⁶ He is buried in Cecil Memorial Cemetery, Post Oak, Johnson, Missouri.⁷⁰⁶

She married (3) CLARK ELIHU BAILEY on December 24, 1960 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri.⁸⁴⁶³ He was born December 3, 1905 in Marshall, Searcy, Arkansas,⁷⁰⁶ and died February 21, 1968 in Lee's Summit, Jackson, Missouri.⁷⁰⁶ He is buried in Lee's Summit Historical Cemetery, Jackson County, Missouri.^{706, 456}

• Descendant Reports
  • Timothy Hall Descendant Report (Ancestor of Roberta M. Carter)

Children of ROBERTA MAY CARTER and ELMER ALLISON SMITH:

1. Daughter
2. Son
3. Daughter

Military Service

Marriage Information

• Roberta May Carter and Elmer Allison Smith were divorced in December, 1940 in Indepence, Jackson, Missouri.¹⁰¹⁴⁹

Obituaries

Kansas City Times, February 22, 1968¹⁰¹⁴⁷

MAN AND WIFE DIE IN CRASH

Mr. and Mrs. Clark Bailey in Car Hit by a Train

BEHIND W. E. PLANT

Apparently Couple Was Not Aware of Danger

A Prairie Lee lake couple was killed yesterday in a car-train collision on Chapman road behind the Western Electric plant in Lee's Summit

Dead at the scene were Clark Bailey, 64 years old, and his wife, Mrs. Roberta Bailey, 54, of Luther road at the lake in Lee's Summit.

None of the crew members on the 16-car Missouri Pacific train was injured. Crewman said the northbound train was making an extra freight run here from Jefferson City. It was not a scheduled run.

Car Going East

Police said the Bailey vehicle was eastbound from the Western Electric plant where Mrs. Bailey had picked up her husband from work shortly after 3 o'clock. Bailey worked in the plant kitchen.

Friends of the couple said Mrs. Bailey apparently had just left from work at the Jackson County hospital. Hospital authorities said Mrs. Bailey worked the day shift from 6:30 to 2:30 yesterday in the long-term unit of the facility.

Beryl Imsland, 51, of Jefferson City, a fireman on the train, said the train was traveling 52 miles an hour before the impact. Police said even though Imsland applied the train's emergency brakes the train traveled more than a quarter mile past the crossing before stopping.

Several Cars Stop

A passenger in a car following the Bailey vehicle, Michael W. Droege, 17, of Lee's Summit, said the flashing red lights of the crossing signals were in operation and several vehicles were stopped on the East side of the tracks waiting for the train to pass.

Richard Miller, 18, another witness, said the Bailey vehicle slowed to about 5 or 10 miles an hour to rollover a bump in the road where the railroad tracks cross. The train struck the car on the right side at the passenger door.

Witnesses on the east side of the tracks, Mr. and Mrs. John Martin Griffiths, Lee's Summit, told police the Baileys appeared to be talking and apparently did not notice the train or warning signals.

Western Electric workers at the accident scene said the flashing warning signals were difficult to see if there was a bright sunset.

Engine Torn Out

The train hit the motor car with such force that the car's engine was torn out and knocked about 35 feet across a drainage ditch. The car was shoved between the train and a 6-foot signal box set in about four feet of concrete on the west side of the tracks. The car came to rest partly on the roadway pointing west.

Bailey was thrown more than 80 feet from the car and Mrs. Bailey about 40 feet. Both were found in a drainage ditch.

Kenneth H. Wright, jr., a deputy fire chief, said Mrs. Bailey was still breathing when he arrived but died minutes later.

Pieces of the motor car were found hundreds of feet down the tracks.

The train was damaged on the left side of the engine.

The fatal car-train collision was the second in two days. Tuesday morning David Lewis Wright, 20, of 804 East Hayward avenue, was killed when his car was struck by a train on Thirty-first street near Noland road in Independence.

Mr. Bailey was born in Marshall, Ark., and lived in Lee's Summit four years. He was a member of the Independence Salvation Army. Surviving are two sons, Joe Dale Bailey of Louisiana and Dennis G. Bailey, Chicago; three daughters, Mrs. Carol Annette Welch of Louisiana; Mrs. Janice Carolyn Smith, Chicago, and Mrs. Jackie Alberta Dickerson, St. Louis, and seven grandchildren.

Mrs. Bailey was born here and lived in Lee's Summit five years. Surviving are two sons, David Smaltz of the home, and Charles Reid Smith; two daughters, Mrs. Dale Bailey, Lee's Summit, and Mrs. Juanita Hoover, Napa, Calif.; her mother, Mrs. Jennie M. Pearson, 3908 Central; four sisters, Miss Mary E. Carter and Miss Ann Carter, both of 3908 Central; Mrs. Elizabeth Gaston, De Soto, and Mrs. Jessie Mueller, 9720 Noland road, and five grandchildren.

Services for the couple will be held at 2 o'clock Friday at the Langsford chapel, Lee's Summit; burial in the Lee's Summit cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight at the chapel.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
January 7, 1920293	Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas	Robert Franklin Carter Jennie May Mackintosh Roberta May Carter Mary Ellen Carter Elizabeth L. Carter
May 2, 1930480	Washington, Jackson, Kansas	Robert Franklin Carter Jennie May Mackintosh Roberta May Carter Mary Ellen Carter Elizabeth L. Carter Luzella Ann Carter Jessie Mildred Carter
April 19, 19402881	Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri	Elmer Allison Smith Roberta May Carter Daughter Son Daughter