Sid Umsted died from injuries he suffered in a train wreck. Umsted, known as the “Father of the Smackover Oil Field,” drilled the first well in the Smackover (Union County) area, resulting in Arkansas’s largest oil discovery. In 1925, the Smackover field produced over 77 million barrels of oil and was the largest oil field in the nation at that time.
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