December 2025 Meeting of the Carthage City Council

  The Carthage City Council held its monthly meeting on December 5th at 6:00 pm. Several items were discussed. Watch the full meeting below. Thanks to Teresa’s Gifts for sponsoring Smith County Insider’s live broadcast of this meeting. Subscribe to Smith County...

Mrs. Marie Gregory Jones

Saved as a young child, Mrs. Marie Gregory Jones age 98 of Lebanon, ended her earthly journey to begin her walk with her Savior on Saturday afternoon December 27, 2025 at the American House Senior Living in Lebanon. With her family at her bedside, she was pronounced...

Mrs. Jimmie McKinney

Mrs. Jimmie McKinney, age 91 of the Elmwood Community, died Saturday morning, December 27 at Smith County Health and Rehab in Carthage.  She is survived by: daughter, Pam McKinney of Elmwood; sisters, Karen Cole , Frankie Williams and husband Joe, Helen (Cricket) Boyd...

Mrs. Janice Huddleston Bailey

Mrs. Janice Huddleston Bailey, a homemaker of the Dixon Springs Community, who only saw the best in people, peacefully entered eternity at 12:02 a.m. Monday morning December 22, 2025 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had...

Mrs. Betty “Jean” Kemp Caplenor

Mrs. Betty “Jean” Kemp Caplenor, age 89 years young of the Flat Rock Community passed away on Thursday, December 25, 2025. Mrs. Jean was born December 29, 1935, in the Buffalo Community of Smith County, a daughter of the late Leslie Edgar “Lex” Kemp and Cleo Deltha...

Mrs. Sheree Denise Sapp

Sheree Denise Sapp was born in Jacksonville, Florida on February 25, 1956 to the late Clarence Wayne and Joyce Stewart Davis. Sheree brought kindness to everyone around her till her passing on December 23, 2025 in Difficult, TN. Sheree retired from the Smith County...