Nodaway County MO Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Ada   (Addie) September 20, 1901
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September  27, 1901 Newspaper
OBITURAY IN NEWSPAPER 9-27-1901

PASSED AWAY

AT 10 O'CLOCK P.M. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1901, ADDIE SMITH, SECOND DAUGHTER OF 
ELON SMITH, DIED AT THE HOME OF A. O. GRIGGS IN ELDORADO, KANSAS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE MAIN STREET CHRISTIAN CHURCH THAT PLACE, 
AFTER WHICH THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN BELL VISTA CEMETERY.

ADDIE SMITH WAS BORN AND GREW TO WOMANHOOD IN NODAWAY COUNTY HAVING LIVED HERE 
TILL THE FALL OF 1898, WHEN SHE WENT TO JOIN HER PARENTS IN THEIR THEN NEW HOME 
IN CLARK COUNTY THIS STATE.  DURING THE NEXT YEAR SHE ATTENDED NORMAL AT 
KOUKUK, IOWA, PREPARATORY TO TEACHING.  HAVING FINISHED HER PREPARATORY WORK 
SHE HAD ENTERED UPON A VERY SUCCESSFUL TERM AS TEACHER NEAR HER PARENTS' HOME 
WHEN IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR SHE CONTRACED A SEVER COLD THICH PREPARED THE WAY 
AND WAS SUPPLMENTED BY LUNG FEVER, WHICH IN TURN LEFT HER A VICTIM OF 
CONSUMPTION.  SHE SPENT SEVERAL WEEKS HERE DURING THE SPRING, AT THE HOMES OF 
HER UNCLE AND SISTER BENTON SMITH AND MRS. O. G. HAWK, AND JUNE 1ST WENT TO 
JOIN HER PARENTS AT DURACHEN, KANSAS, WHERE THEY HAD BUT RECENTLY SETTLED.

SOME WEEKS AGO, IN COMPTIANCE WITH HER PHYSICIANS'S ADVICE SHE WAS TAKEN TO 
ELDORADO TO BE CONVENIENT TO HIS CARE.  SHE LEAVES HER FATHER, MOTHER, FOUR 
SISTERS AND FIVE BROTHRS TO MOURN HER DEATH, AND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MRS. 
HAWK, ALL LIVING AT DURACHEN KANSAS.

SHE WAS BORN FEBRUARY 19, 1874, AND THEREFORE WAS 27 YEARS, 7 MOS., AND 11 DAYS 
OLD AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH.


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