Smith, Franklin C. (1846-1935)

ANDERSON, BUTLER, CARTER, HUNT, LARSEN, MCCAUSTLAND, MCFARLAND, ODEM, RASMUSSEN, SMITH

Posted By: Carl Malone (email)
Date: 4/11/2017 at 11:27:01

The Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa
April 27, 1935

FRANKLIN SMITH, EARLY DAY CASS RESIDENT, DIES

Had Resided in County More Than Three Score Years. Rites to Be Held Tomorrow.

Franklin C. Smith, 89, early day resident of Cass county and former extensive land owner, died at 6:30 Friday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jesse McCaustland, 1011 East Tenth Street, following an extended illness.

Death was caused by infirmities due to his advanced age. Mr. Smith was stricken during the holidays with the fatal illness and had been bedfast the last nine weeks.

Native of Ohio

Mr. Smith had been a resident of Cass county 66 years and Smith Lake, Ia., north of the city, was named after the pioneer. At one time Mr. Smith owned large tracts of land in the Buck Creek community. The fortune dwindled with economic reverses and other unfortunate events.

He was born in Butler county O., on June 19, 1946, a son of the late Andrew J. and Eleanor Smith. On Feb 4, 1869, Mr. Smith and Miss Mary Elizabeth Butler were united in marriage at Huntsville, Ind. A short time after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Smith journeyed westward in a covered wagon and settled on a farm a mile north of the Buck Creek church.

Church Organizer.

He had lived in the Buck Creek vicinity until 1930 when he retired from farming and moved to Atlantic to make his home. Mrs. Smith died on June 6, 1907. Mr. Smith was one of the organizers of the first Buck Creek Methodist church.

He is survived by the daughter; Mrs. McCaustland, a sister, Mrs. Addie Hunt of Union, Ia., the only survivor of a family of twelve children, and six grandchildren, Mrs. Joe Rasmussen of Guthrie Center, Mrs. Lawrence Larsen of Exira, Frank Carter of Glencoe, Minn., and Vera Odem, Donald McFarland and Mrs. Ruby Anderson of Atlantic. Two daughters, Mrs. Nell Carter and Mrs. David Odem, also preceded him in death.

Funeral services will be held at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Roland, Peacock & Baxter funeral home, with the Rev. L. M. Grigsby, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, officiating. Interment is to be in the Atlantic cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the funeral home until the hour of the rites.

June 19, 1846 – April 26, 1935