Frank Smith

SMITH

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 1/17/2024 at 14:17:23

The Wapello Republic, Wapello, Iowa
Saturday, October 14, 1871
Page 2

Killed- Frank Smith, aged about twelve years, son of A. J. Smith of Eliot township, was accidentally shot and killed last Sunday. It seems that he and three of four other boys of near the same age were out hunting. In a playful scuffle with the gun it was discharged, the contents entering young Smith's body near the navel and anging upward. Death ensured immediately.