Richard C. Smith, aged seventy-three, a well known farmer living living near Rector, died at 2:45 Tuesday afternoon in the Paragould Sanitarium as the result of injuries he suffered here last Saturday afternoon while watching Henry Batten ride a wild horse on the local stock yards.

The bucking broncho became frightened, made for the entrance to the lot, ran through the gate and into the crowd, knocking Mr. Smith down and fracturing his skull and otherwise injuring him. He was taken to the hospital in Paragould where he was given medical attention. There he suffered from his injuries until death relieved him Tuesday.

Mr. Smith was a native of West Tennessee, but he had been a citizen of this community for the last forty years. He is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Martin Rhew and Miss Gertrude Smith; one son, Troy O. Smith, one sister, Mary Toole of Leachville, and nine grandchildren.

The funeral services were conducted at the Methodist Protestant Church, by the Rev. N.B. Blackman, the pastor, assisted by the Rev. H.O. Bolin, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The funeral was at Woodland Heights Cemetery.