Clearfield County PA Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Mrs. Hurxthal W. February 28, 1915
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  Clearfield Progress      3/2/1915
Mrs. Hurxthal W. Smith     3/2/1915    Clearfield Progress
 
The funeral services for the late Mrs. Hurxthal W. Smith, were held at her home 
on in Locust street, Clearfield, at 2 o'clock this Tuesday afternoon,
and were attended by a large number of sorrowing relatives and friends,
amid the silent remembrance of beautiful flowers from absent ones. The 
Episcopal service was read by Reverend Joseph F. John, and the pall
bearers were Judge A. O. Smith, William E. Wallace, H S. Whiteman, George R. 
Bigler, William I. Swoope.  Burial was made in Hillcrest cemetery.  Josephine 
Hartshorne Smith was born on February 19, 1840, at Curwensville, and there 
spent her childhood and youth with her parents; Benjamin Hartshorne and wife.  
On Oct. 4, 1864, she was married by Reverend William Burchfield to Hurxthal W.
Smith, with whom a home was established in Clearfield, where she lived, until 
the time of her death, which occurred on February 28, 1915, only a few months 
after the golden anniversary of her wedding, had been quietly celebrated in her 
home with her husband and children.  She was the mother of nine children Josiah 
H., Pascaline Bertha, Stanley L., Hurxthal Van V.,  Florence, Clement W., Dora 
E., Katherine M., and Thornton R., of whom Josiah H. Smith, died in early 
manhood, and Florence, Clement W., Dora E. and Thorton R. died in infancy. The 
mother is survived by her husband, Hurxthal W. Smith, two sons, Stanley L. 
Smith, of New York city, and Hurxthal Van V. Smith of Muskogee, Okla., and two 
daughters, Mrs. Pascaline S. Tonner, of Clearfield and Mrs. Katherine Frease of 
Canton, Ohio, also by her niece, Miss, Isabella Ten Eyche, who has made her 
home with the family for many years. For more than fifty years, Mrs. Smith 
devoted a life of great mental, moral and physical strength to the duties and 
cares of her home, giving to her husband, the consuming love and affection of a 
wife, and to her children, the tender care and character forming control of a 
mother.  Possessing a strong and stately personality, with a mild and modest 
manner, she exercised a commanding influence upon all who, came within range of 
her home. A wide circle of relations and friends habitually appealed to her 
good judgment, and never appealed in vain, for counsel and comfort to meet the 
problem of life.  In her religious life, she was confirmed as a member of St. 
Andrew Protestant Episcopal church in Clearfield shortly after her marriage, 
and continued to the end of her life, as a faithful and consistent attendant, 
upon the divine services of the church. She was for many years, a leading 
spirit in the sewing society, which contributed largely to the support of the 
church.  Unselfish in every thought and deed, untiring in her work for friends 
and family, unyielding in her view of right and wrong, she never trifled with 
the good nor compromised with the evil. She lived and died for others.


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