Walter Tuttle Smith, infant died 1920

SMITH, TUTTLE

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 6/13/2013 at 12:10:41

Walter Tuttle Smith, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Rush Smith, died at the Smith home on North Grove street on Saturday after a brief little life of forty-eight hours. The little one arrived at the home on Thursday and for the first few hours of his life seemed all that a healthy babe should be. Internal hemorrhage, however, set in and the loss of blood gave the parents much alarm. It was hoped that transfusion could save a little one, and the father gladly offered the necessary blood. But all efforts were in vain and the home was made desolate from the loss of the first-born, whose coming had been looked forward to with so much hope and longing. The little one had been named Walter Tuttle for the paternal and maternal grandfathers, the father of Mr. Smith being the late Walter Smith and Mrs. Smith's father Frank M. Tuttle of this city.

The funeral services were held from the home on Sunday afternoon in charge of the Rev. E. Merle Adams of the Congregational church and interment was made in Riverside cemetery.

Source: The News Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; February 26, 1920.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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