SMITH, Greenup 1806 -1875

SMITH JOHNSON

Posted By: nancy dorwart
Date: 3/8/2004 at 20:16:25

"The Fairfield Ledger"
February 11, 1875
Page 3, Column 8

SMITH -- January 13th, 1875, at his residence in Jefferson County, Iowa, of Palsy, Mr. Greenup SMITH, in the 69th year of his age. Mr. SMITH was born in Barron County, Ky., on the 27th of November 1806. He professed religion in his fifteenth year and from that time until his death he lived a faithful follower of Christ, in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was married to Miss Sarah A. JOHNSON, in Barron County, Ky., in the 23d year of his age. He lived there until 1838, when he emigrated to Iowa. He raised a family of eight children. The county has lost one of its best citizens, the church a faithful standard bearer and a worth counselor, and his bereaved children a loving father. Many of the readers of this will remember the sad accident in his family June 12th 1870, while on his way to church, his team ruuning away, which resulted in the death of his faithful companion and her aged mother. He bore this great loss and all his afflictions patiently, believing that "our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Rev. F. M. Johnson

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Admin. note: Buried in Cumberland Cemetery.