Obituary: Elizabeth Smith, 8 Feb 1894 - Smith County, TX Contributed by Vicki Betts 18 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, March 15, 1894, p. 7, c. 6 SMITH.—Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Charles A. Smith, M. D., and Mrs. Elizabeth Gonner Smith, was born January 19, 1894, and died February 8, 1894. She was a beautiful little child. Her stay was of but short duration—only twenty days. Parents and friends did all they could to protract life, but she is not, "for the Lord took her to himself." A little three-year-old cousin said: "Her soul is in heaven, but her body is in the ground." After the usual religious services she was laid away in Tyler cemetery, near the grave of her grandpa, Judge M. H. Bonner, who preceded her to the better land November 28, 1883. She was dedicated to God in holy baptism by her great-grandpa, who conducted the funeral services in the presence of a goodly number of relatives and friends. She was my thirty-ninth living great-grandchild. W. N. BONNER. TYLER, TEXAS.