Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Lewis D. May 30, 1888
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Ionia Standard - Fri. June 1, 1888

Lewis D. Smith died on Wednesday last. In his death Ionia county loses one of 
its widest known citizens, for he had lived and labored in the county nearly 
half a century. He was 69 years, 10 months and 14 days old at the time of his 
demise, having been born in Luzerne, Warren county, Pennsylvania, on the 16th 
day of July, 1818. His wife, who survives him, he married in his native state 
in 1843, and together they came to Michigan three years later and settled down 
to farm life in the township of Orleans. After a career of ten years in the 
woods, they moved to Ionia, and where, ever since, Lewis D. Smith has been a 
familiar figure on the business streets. He was a positive man; in politics and 
faithful and forceful worker in the republican ranks, and a respected and 
valued member in the councils of the party. He was postmaster of this city 
during the eight years 1865 to 1873. Of the children who survive him are three 
sons, M.L., K.R., and Delos G., and two daughters, Mrs. O.S. Wood, of this 
city, and Mrs. Heman Lowe, of Washington, D.C. They lose a father who cherished 
his family, and who cared for them generously. The funeral will occur at the 
family residence east Washington street, this Friday afternoon, at four 
o’clock. 



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