OBIT: Josephine (GUMP) SMITH, 1919, of Bedford, Bedford County, PA

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  Bedford, Jan. 17. - The sad news of the death of Mrs. Josephine Gump Smith, 
of this place, in a fire which destroyed the sanitarium at Harmarville, near 
Pittsburg, yesterday, was received here last evening, after friends in that 
city had given up the hope that she might have escaped alive.  Mrs. Smith had 
been undergoing treatment in the Convalescent hospital, Harmarville, for the 
past few months, having been in ill health for some time previous, and was 
not greatly improved when friends from here paid her a visit during the past 
week.  Deceased was well and favorably known here; she was a daughter of the 
late George Gump, a former associate judge, and was over 60 years of age.  
Her husband, Francis Smith, preceded her in death a number of years ago; one 
son, Earl, of Mill Creek, W. Va., surviving; also, two brothers and a sister: 
Joseph Gump, of Kansas; Jacob Gump, of Mann's Choice, and Mrs. Margaret 
Defibaugh, of this place.
  According to a message received by local relatives this afternoon a body 
recovered from the ruins was identified as Mrs. Smith and it will be shipped 
here immediately, to be laid to rest in the Mt. Olivet graveyard in Napier 
township, beside her parents.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, January 20, 1919, page 5