Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, James Dismuke April 5, 1910
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The Talbotton New Era, April 21, 1910
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, April 21, 1910
Page Seven

James Dismuke Smith

Born in Talbot County, Ga., September the 26th, 1852; died in Talbotton, Ga. 
April the 5th, 1910.  It requires but a moment to write this announcement.  It 
required nearly fifty-eight years to live that life, the elements of whose 
rare excellence and character, inherent in from the beginning, were carefully 
developed and fostered by wise and earnest Christian parents.

Mr. Smith was so modest and genuinely humble in his estimate of himself that 
doubtless he would have depreciated any special eulogy, but few men deserve a 
finer tribute to real worth of character.  He was a rare man, who in life’s 
great school, and learned to honor and love the best and without estimate of 
cost he set himself to attain it.   

In social life he was a favorite.  Naturally bright and joyous in spirit, he 
drew his associates with irresistible cords.  He was a perennial fountain of 
manly, overflowing sympathy, and he created it as well as gave it.  He made 
men love mankind.  His personality was of that type that wins the love of 
others without parting with the least of his convictions.  He possessed in a 
prominent degree, those fine qualities that go to make up fine and manly 
characters.

In early manhood she married Miss Leila K. Johnson of Muscogee County, who 
with four children, all grown who survive him.  Their married life was an 
ideally happy one.  His untiring energy, his patient loving thoughtfulness for 
his family won the admiration of all.

The most glowing tribute to his memory – the most emphatic declaration to his 
real worth – the most striking evidence of his many admiring friends, was the 
very large concourse of friends, many of whom were his boyhood neighbors, who 
came to extend sympathy for the bereaved ones and to shed tears of sorrow as 
they lovingly placed flowers on his casket and bid him a sad farewell.  This 
more eloquently than words, told how much he would be missed.

This in brief is the record of a life whose graces and choice virtues are 
treasured in many grateful hearts, and whose faithful, loving ministries are 
written in the happiness of many lives.

A Friend



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