Sonora Smart Dodd grave
Sonora Smart Dodd grave , a photo by Moun10Bike on Flickr. RIP Sonora. And thanks for the day.
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Sonora Smart Dodd and Father's Day
Since I did a little spiel on the origins of Mother's Day, I thought I'd better give equal (or nearly equal) energy to looking into the origins of Father's Day. Sonora Smart Dodd (1882 - 1978) is given credit for starting the tradition of Father's Day in the U.S. * Biography Sonora Louise Smart was born in Jenny Lind, Sebastian County, Arkansas in 1882 to farmer William Jackson Smart (1842-1919) and his wife Ellen Victoria Cheek Smart (1851-1898). William Smart was a sergeant in the Union's First Arkansas Light Artillery during the Civil War. The Smart family moved West and finally settled near Spokane, Washington in 1887. When Sonora was 16, her mother died in childbirth with her sixth child. Sonora was the only daughter and shared with her father William in the raising of her younger brothers, including her new infant brother Marshall. Sonora Smart married John Bruce Dodd (1870-1945), one of the original founders of Ball & Dodd Funeral Home, and had...