Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: William SMITH

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> June 2005

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Mr. William Smith of Evansville passed away in his home on Garfield Ave.,
Tuesday morning, April 3rd, at 1:15. Death was due to a heart attack. He
had been in very good health until a few moments before his death.

Mr. Smith was born September 11, 1859 on a farm near Oil City, Penn. He was
the son of David and Emily Smith, who moved to Wisconsin with their family
in 1866. His early youth was spent on a farm east of Evansville to Minnie
Silverthorne of Footville. After several years on the farm, they moved to
Evansville. One son, Harley Allison, was born to them. On April 29, 1912,
Mrs. Smith died.

On March 28, 1914, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Evelyn J. Quivey of this
city. They made their home on Garfield Ave.

For the past twenty-eight years, Mr. Smith has been in the wholesale
tobacco business. At first he was in the employ of the firm of Barnard and
Wilder. But on Jan. 1, 1917, he established with his son his own business
under the name of William Smith & Son. Because of Mr. Smith's knowledge of
the tobacco business and his intense application, it has greatly developed
in these past ten years. In his business and private life he has made many
friends who will miss him greatly. He was a member of the Methodist Church,
the Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star.

Mr. Smith is survived by his widow and one son, Harley Allison, of this
city; one brother Hiram of Huntington Park, Calif., and two sisters Mrs.
Frank Gifford, of Janesville and Miss Lydia Smith of Beloit.

Funeral services will be held from the residence on Garfield Ave. Friday
afternoon at two thirty o'clock, Rev. Saunderson officiating. Interment in
Maple Hill Cemeter.

April 5, 1928, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin