Washington County KS Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Wm. E. L. December 1, 1904
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The Washington Register
Washington County
Thursday
December 1, 1904

Wm. E. L. Smith.

Wm. E.L. SMITH was born August 16, 1823, in Piqua county, Ohio, married January
12, 1854, to Mrs. Martha TANSEL at Montgomery county, Indiana. Four children
were born to this union, two sons and two daughters. They lived in Missouri for
some years and afterwards moved to Kansas where he spent his last days. He
united with the Presbyterian church about fifty years ago but had his membership
with the Methodist church during the last twenty-eight years of his life.
He served through the entire service of the Mexican war, and also belonged to
the Home Guards of the Civil War. 

He was a loving companion, kind father and good neighbor. He died November 26,
1904, at the age of eighty-one years, three months and two days. His aged
companion, four children, and three step children, A. Tansel, Sparks, Ok., Mrs.
Albertine MYERS of this city and Mrs. May Campbell, Grand Junction, Colo., and
many friends are left to mourn his loss.

His children are Mrs. Geo. COLEMAN, Beloit, Kan., W.H. SMITH of this city, Mrs.
R.L. CHRISTIAN, Clyde, Kan., and Elmer E. SMITH, city.

The funeral services were conducted at the Christian church by the writer at one
o'clock, November 27, 1904. He was laid to rest in the Washington cemetery.
Albert L. Young. 
 

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