OBIT: Annie Eliza (Sprankle) SMITH, 1934, Williamsburg, Blair County, PA

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MRS. ANNIE ELIZA (SPRANKLE) SMITH

Widow of Samuel B. Smith, died at her home, 309 High street, Williamsburg, last 
evening at 7:45 o'clock.  She had been in failing health for a year but her 
condition became critical only a week ago.  She was born in Indiana on Nov. 23, 
1856, the daughter of William and Kezziah Sprankle and was united in marriage 
with Samuel B. Smith at Spruce Creek on Feb. 6, 1883.  They resided on a farm 
near Williamsburg until the death of the husband when Mrs. Smith moved to 
Williamsburg where she had resided for the past twenty-six years.  Surviving are 
these children:  Aden H. Smith, Mrs. David Garber, Mrs. John Flaig and Mrs. Nora 
Thompson, all of Williamsburg, and Mrs. Walter Snyder of Huntingdon and eighteen 
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  She was the last member of her 
immediate family.  She was a member of the Zion Lutheran church, the Aid 
society, the Women's Missionary society and attended the Women's Bible class of 
the Sunday school.  Funeral services will be conducted at the home Thursday 
afternoon at 2 o'clock by her pastor, Rev. V. D. Naugle, and interment will be 
made in the Presbyterian cemetery at Alexandria.

Altoona Mirror, May 21, 1934