Medina-Lorain-Cuyahoga County OhArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Louis Sidney February 21, 1927
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Medina County Gazette Feb 25, 1927, pg 1
Smith Services Thursday
    Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon, for one of Medina’s 
veterans.  Louis Sidney Smith, known for more than a half century as “Lou.” 
Who died Monday evening in his 77th years.
    Although absent from Medina between 1905 and 1922, nearly 60 years of his 
life had been spent  in Medina, to which village he came with his parents, Dr. 
and Mrs. Sidney Jay Smith, from Elyria when he was five year old.  He had been 
born in Elyria May 14, 1850.  Educated in Medina schools, “Lou” Smith bore an 
active part in village affairs as he came of age, leading the band, being an 
officer of the volunteer fire department and its head for a time.  He was a 
Mason, a member and past of Median lodge, and was a Knight Templar and member 
also of the Knights of Pythias.  Rev. P.M/ Kendall read the Episcopal service 
at the funeral.

Died in Daughter’s Home

    He married Donna Eliza Root July 7, 1877, and to them were born three 
children, Mrs. Elizabeth Boesch, in whose home in East Washington street, 
Medina, he died Monday; Sidney and Adon Smith, both of Cleveland, and who were 
present when their father died.  Mrs. Smith died in Lakewood in 1915.
    “Colonel” Smith was postmaster of Medina in the second administration of 
Grover Cleveland as president and soon after removed his family to Cleveland, 
were for years he was manager of the Diebolt Safe and Lock company.  In 1922, 
he returned to Medina, a victim of the illness which caused his death.
    He was able to be about the village for several years and two years ago 
spent several months in Florida, but for several months had been confined to 
the house and, for ten days before his death, in his bed.  It was while his 
sons and daughter were discussing the bringing in of a nurse to assist in his 
care that life fled Monday afternoon, after a few minutes’ absence, to find 
him dean, the end coming without warning and peacefully.


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