Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Charles, 1896 

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TOWN OF SUFFOLK 

REMEMBERED IN DEATH 
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Charles Smith Left a Neat Sum for His Sisters In Austria. 
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BEGAN HIS FORTUNE WITH TEN DOLLARS 
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  Suffolk. Va., Dec. 20. - (Special) - With no family of his own and separated 
by seas from nearest kin, Charles Smith remembered his sisters even in death. 
That is why his executor, Dr. Thomas H. Barnes, was in Suffolk to-day to send 
off some $8,000 to Austria.  The money was sent by bills of exchange.  The 
beneficiaries wanted the cash in time to do some Christmas shopping, and 
though it may arrive a little late, it will be good when they got it.  The 
sisters are all married and poor, and they will look upon $8,000 as a fortune. 
In letters to Dr. Barnes they speak of the bequest with touching gratitude and 
appear to regard the Doctor as a benefactor.  The ladies names are Theresa 
Pellor, Anna Volta and Magdelina Unverthoren.  They live near Strahof, Austria.

  It was more than forty years ago when Charles Smith left home and loved ones 
to seek his fortune in America.  Smith was not his real name, which was so long 
an American couldn't stand on the ground and say it.  His cognomen was changed 
for expediency's sake.

  Arriving in Nansemond county with less than $10, Smith engaged with a Mr. 
Hall, near South Quay, as a cabinet maker.  After the war he went to Franklin 
and opened a furniture store and did undertaking.  He soon became a 
substantial citizen and was respectedwherever known.

  A few months ago Mr. Smith died, aged about 60 years.  He had known and 
loved Dr. Barnes for years, and his last wish was that Dr. Barnes should 
settle the estate, which was worth $11,000.  The testator remembered the poor 
of Franklin by willing them $500.  He also remembered an old colored woman who 
nursed him with a like amount and left $500 more for a monument.  Dr. Barnes 
thinks a tear should be dropped and a kind word said to perpetuate Smith's 
memory. 

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TOWN OF SUFFOLK 
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Monument to a Bohemian's Memory - [...] 

  Suffolk, Va., Feb. 5. - (Special.) - [...] 

     BOHEMIAN MONUMENT. 

  A monument has been put over the grave of the late Charles Smith, the 
Bohemian, who died last year at Franklin possessed of goodly estates and who 
willed a snug sum for the poor of the town.  Dr. Barnes has paid off his three 
sisters, who live in Bohemia. 


Charles SMITH, cabinet maker & undertaker, 
b. 30 Aug 1822, Bohemia, d. 5 Jul 1896, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 43A*), Franklin, 
"The Norfolk Virginian," Tues., Dec. 21, 1897, p. 6, col. 3; 
"The Norfolk Virginian," Sun., Feb. 6, 1898, p. 6, col. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Find a Grave Mem. #18964464. 

Dates from his monument - a distintive red-granite obelisk. 

The [recopied] Southampton Co. D.Recs. give d. 14 Sep 1896, age 74. 
   (p. 383 {orig.p. 1 #22}) 

I have not found a death notice in July or Sept., 1896 or '97. 


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