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Contributed By: Megan Brown Submitted By: Geneva Pettit
King Solomon & Sallie A. Smith
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Contributed By: Bill Steely Submitted By: Geneva Pettit
Printed about 1920 in the Carroll County Democrat.
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KING S. SMITH
FORMER CARROLL COUNTIAN DIES FROM
OVER HEAT
K.C. SMITH, AGED 77, DIED JULY 24 AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, HARRISON
SMITH,NEAR WIRT, IN. DEATH WAS DUE TO OVER HEAT, HE LIVED THE GREATER
PART OFHIS LIFE INCARROLL COUNTY NEAR ENGLISH.
HE MARRIED MISS SALLIE RILEY, ALSO OF THIS COUNTY, AND TO THIS UNION
NINE CHILDREN WHERE BORN, THREE DYING IN INFANCY. HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS
GOING THREE DAUGHTERS: MRS. CLARA FOX, MRS. BESSIE KNIGHT, MRS. MARTHA
DANNER, AND THREE SONS, HENRY, GEORGE AND HARRISON SMITH, AND AN AGED
BROTHER, JESSE SMITH OF ENGLISH, AND SEVERAL NEPHEWS AND NIECES IN
CARROLL COUNTY.
IN 1881 HE UNITED WITH THE ENGLISH BAPTIST CHURCH. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE
CONDUCTED AT THE HOME BY REV. DANIEL P. ROWLETT, PASTOR SINGING BY MRS.
LUCY SIMMONS AND MISS GLADYS RITZS.
MRS. FOX BURIED HER 14 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER HELEN THE DAY HER FATHER DIED,
DEATH FOLLOWING AN OPERATION FOR APPENDICITIS.
MR. SMITH WAS LAID TO REST BESIDE HS WIFE IN DUPONT, IND. CEMETERY.
OTIS SMITH AND FAMILY, BEN SMITH AND FAMILY, JESSE SMITH SR. AND WILL
SMITH ATTENDED THE FUNERAL.
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