Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Courtland 1931
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The Portland Review, Tuesday, November 17, 1931

Danby lost one of its pioneer residents Thursday night in the death of 
Courtland Smith, who had resided in that township 66 years.  He had been in 
poor health about six years, a paralytic stroke which he suffered a few weeks 
ago hastening the end.  Funeral services were held at the house one and one-
half mile east of Compton corners Sunday afternoon, and burial was in Danby 
cemetery.

Mr. Smith was born in Birmingham, Ohio, 75 years ago last December.  At the 
age of 10 he came with his parents to Danby.  Fifty-five years ago he married 
Miss Sylvia Peake, the ceremony having been performed in Portland.  The couple 
at once began housekeeping on the farm where he died.  There is one surviving 
child, Mrs. Eugene Lyon, of Danby.  The widow and a sister, the latter Mrs. 
Margaret I. Pike, of Oklahoma City, Okla., also survive.  Mrs. Pike is 85 
years old and the last of a family of 11 children.


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