Clearfield County PA Archives Obituaries.....Smith, William Henry January 8, 1901
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Penfield Press, 18 Jan 1901
Wise is the Plan that keeps the future from our knowledge.  Less than a year 
ago two youths and two maidens walked down the aisle of the Penfield 
Presbyterian church and took their places as the center of interest and 
admiration on the, to them, memorable occasion.  They were the graduates of 
the Penfield High School, and were soon to go out into the larger and 
sterner school of Life.

On Thursday, Jan. 10, 1901, William Henry Smith was borne by six of his 
young men friends down the aisle at the same church.  He who had spoken with 
vigor, confidence and hope was now pale and pulseless clay.  On that young 
brow Death had set his seal of mighty and eternal calm.  The sunlit earthly 
path of that young life had suddenly ended in the gloom of the casket and 
the tomb.

The deceased was the second son and child of Dr. Reuben and Lavanchie Smith 
and was born at Penfield, Pa. on Dec. 15, 1880.  His whole life was 
practically lived at his home, engaging in the usual pleasures and pursuits 
of boyhood and youthhood, attending school each term until his graduation in 
April, 1900.  It was his purpose to go further in education attainments and 
he eagerly engaged in earning means to pursue this purpose.

Going to Cameron county lumber woods and laboring there, he seems to have 
contracted typhoid fever.  Returning ailing to his home after some days he 
grew worse, was put to bed, and Drs. Hayes and Kline called to his father's 
assistance in treatment.  Young friends were devoted in the nursing part and 
all possible was done, but in vain.  And about noon on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 
1901, his spirit left the temple of clay.

Sprightly, genial, generous, energetic and intelligent, the departed was a 
popular favorite.  His determined spirit made his ailment seem at first less 
serious than it later developed to be.

When exhorted by the Rev. David Caldwell to trust in the Savior, the dying 
youth replied that he was exercising that trust.

At the funeral time the public places in town were closed.  The attendance 
was large.  Rev. D. Caldwell, assisted by Rev. A. Smith conducted the 
obsequies and W.L. Joyce was Director.  The casket was almost hidden by the 
floral gifts of friends.  The interment was in Penfield cemetery, the 
resting place until the dawn of the day when Death shall reign no more.

Farewell, our eyes are dim with tears,
Our hearts are bowed with grief,
But yet we trust that Heaven's years, Shall bring Joy's golden sheaf.

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