Obit: Smith, Persilla (? - 1869)
Transcriber: Stan
Surnames: CASTNER SMITH STOW
TAYLOR ----Source: LOYAL
TRIBUNE (Loyal, Clark County, Wis.) 10/17/1907 Smith, Persilla (?
- 3 Sep 1869) Mrs. J. Castner
received a letter Friday night from Mrs. Ed Smith requesting the
following be published: Mrs. Ed Smith was
a former resident of Loyal, Clark County, Wis. and moved to
Washington thirty-five years ago and returned about one month ago
to Loyal to visit old friends and neighbors and said it was the
happiest week of her life with old neighbors and during her week's
stay with her friends in Loyal she performed the sad duty of
removing the body of a much loved sister, Persilla Smith that died
thirty-eight years ago the third day of last September and was
buried two miles and one half southwest of Loyal on the farm that
Mrs. Chester Stowe now owns. She was taken up the seventh of Oct.
and her body was removed to the M. E. Cemetery. When the grave was
opened they found the box and casket sound, so the casket was taken
by the handles and put into Mr. Wallace Lyon's wagon and brought to
the Loyal Cemetery at Loyal. It was lowered into the grave by her
old neighbors and Rev. C. H. Towne without difficulty. It was a
surprise to find the casket as sound and firm as almost new. Mrs.
Ed Smith wishes to return her heartfelt thanks to her old neighbors
for their kind assistance for the help of removing her much loved
sister and lying her away in her last resting place." Responses Obit:
Smith, Persilla (? - 1869)
Contact: Shirley Taylor
I believe this
Priscilla (sp?) Smith was my great grandfather, Ed Smith's first
wife, and the Mrs. Ed Smith who is mentioned was her sister, Anna
King Smith, who married Ed after Priscilla's death. They came to
Washington Territory in 1870. I visited Loyal two years ago and
went to the cemetery there where I found a headstone for Priscilla
King Smith and also mentioned on the headstone was a child's name. I
would very much like to find any of the King relatives or anyone
having information on the Smith family. Ed's father and mother,
Francis and Lyda Smith who were witness to the marriage of Ed and
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