William Fuller

Depicts the family of William Harry SMITH, born 1871 in Biardstown, Lamar County, Texas; died 1927 in Paris, Lamar County, Texas. Left to right are Isabel Smith Jetton (1904-1986), Myra Smith Fuller (1907-2003), William Harry Smith, Nancy Claudia Price Smith (1875-1951), Gerald Brann Smith (1901-1966). A fourth child, a stillborn infant son, was also born to Harry and Claudia, probably before 1901. Harry, Claudia, their stillborn son, and Myra are all buried in Antioch Cemetery, Biardstown, Lamar County, Texas; Isabel in Richardson, Texas, and Gerald in Bellevue, Texas.

Ellis Dean FULLER was born 18 April 1897 in Monett, McDonald County, Missouri, a son of Willam Thompson FULLER and Lillie HOLMAN. In 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, served in France, and was discharged from the 645th Aero Squadron (Supply) as a corporal in 1919. He wed Nancy Ouida HARRIS in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1921, and then Myra SMITH in Durant, Oklahoma in 1929. His careers included service as a deputy U.S. marshal in Muskogee and as a chief deputy sheriff in Lamar County, Texas. He had been a member of the Masonic lodge in Paris, Texas, and volunteered as a scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America for several years. He died 1 April 1978 and is buried beside his wife Myra SMITH in Antioch Cemetery, Biardstown, Lamar County, Texas. A roster of his World War I unit is on line at

Joseph Miller Price was born 22 May 1838 in Greene County, Missouri, a son of Samuel Cecil Price and Margaret Jane Miller. He wed Mary Henrietta Biard in 1867 in Lamar County, Texas, fathered nine children, and died 13 June 1920 in Glory, Lamar County, Texas. He enlisted August 10, 1861, in the Confederate army, Company H, Ninth Texas cavalry, and served under Van Dorn, Forrest, Joe Johnston and Fitzhugh Lee. After the war he devoted his attention to farming. He owned a large estate in Lamar County, of which over 300 acres were cultivated and 100 acres in pasture. He has also been described as having been a staunch supporter of education and of the development and maintenance of public schools.

William Thompson Fuller (on viewer's right) was born 25 March 1857 in Ontario County, NY, and died 15 July 1918 in Paris, Lamar County, Texas. He had been a teacher and an engineman for the Frisco Railroad. He wed Lillie Holman in 1889 in Chester, Arkansas, fathering four sons and three daughters. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar County, Texas. The man to the viewer's left has never been identified but is thought to have been another Frisco employee, perhaps the fireman on the Frisco locomotive in the background.