OBIT: Stephen D. SMITH, 1903, Vail Station, Blair County, PA

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  Shortly after 2 yesterday morning, S*. D. Smith died at Vail station, near 
Tyrone, of paralysis.  He was aged 52 years 11 months and 14 days.  He was 
the son of David C. and Catharine Smith and was born at Vail, where all his 
life was spent.  In the civil war he served 100 days in a Pennsylvania 
regiment and on the 28th of September, 1864, he entered Company F, of the 
Nineteenth Pennsylvania cavalry, serving until the close of the war.  
Deceased was a member of the First United Brethren church, Tyrone, the local 
lodge of Knights of Pythias and the Pennsylvania railroad relief.  He had 
been an employe of the railroad company on the Tyrone division, for about 
thirty years.  Besides his wife these children survive: Mrs. William Rodgers, 
Tyrone; Mrs. D. H. Kennedy, Jersey Shore; Charles E. Smith, Altoona, and 
William D. and John B. Smith, at home.  His mother, Mrs. Catharine Smith, 
also survives, with two brothers, W. B---. Smith, of Tyrone, and A. L. Smith, 
of Altoona.  The funeral will be held Friday.  Services at the Bald Eagle 
Methodist church, conducted by the deceased's pastor, Rev. J. E. B. (?) Rice, 
at 10 in the morning.  Interment in cemetery adjoining the church.

Altoona Times, July 2, 1903

Note: Stephen D. Smith, Year: 1900; Census Place: Snyder, Blair, 
Pennsylvania; Roll: T623 1382; Page: 17B; Enumeration District: 90.