Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Samuel  June 1882
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Montgomery Advertiser
(Ashland Banner) Samuel Smith, aged about eighteen years old, and a son of Mrs. 
Alice Smith living near this place, came to an untimely and violent death on 
last Saturday. Samuel left home at noon on Saturday to come to Ashland. He 
passed through a field where he had previously been working got quantity of 
hemlock root, supposing it to be angelica. On his way to Ashland, he ate some of 
the root. and soon after reaching town and drinking a quality of water, have 
signs of being poisoned. Spasm after spasm endured for about two hours. When is 
suffering ended in death at about 5 o'clock p. m. Friends and medical aid were 
on hand and rendered all the service possible, but to no purpose: the poison had 
done its work, and another soul gazed upon the boundless realm of eternity.  
This is the third death in Clay from this deadly poison within the last few 
years.

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