When Laura Belle Honaker was born on 23 July 1876, in Rocky Gap, Bland, Virginia, United States, her father, James David (Jim) Honaker, was 29 and her mother, Susan Linkous, was 21. She married Thomas Pritchard Smith about 1902, in Mannington, Marion, West Virginia, United States. She lived in Union Magisterial District, Lincoln, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Carroll Magisterial District, Lincoln, West Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 19 September 1911, in Lincoln, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Sias, Lincoln, West Virginia, United States.