Wlliam Daniel Smith (1921)

SMITH

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 9/17/2013 at 08:00:30

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 28, 1921
Page 7

Across the Line

Dannie, the 16 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith, died in a Des Moines hospital Tuesday of last week and the remains were interred in the Blair cemetery Thursday. The family formerly lived near St. Charles, but a few years ago moved to northern Iowa.

The boy had been sick for some time and an operation had been performed a week ago for removal of the appendix. Two weeks ago he was brought to Des Moines, where an operation revealed a cancerous colon, from which operation the boy failed to regain consciousness. Besides his parents, he leaves an older brother.
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The Advocate-Tribune
Indianola, Iowa
December 29, 1921
Page 4, Column 3

William Daniel Smith was born June 20, 1906 near St. Charles, Madison county, Iowa, and departed from this life at the age of fifteen years, five months and twenty-nine days.

He moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Smith to a farm near Silver City, Kossuth county, Iowa, in 1919, and attended school there. In 1920 they moved to a farm near East Chain, Martin county, Minnesota. He attended the East Chain consolidated school and completed the course of study as required by this school, and received his diploma.

He was taken sick October 14, and operated on for appendicitis the sixteenth. On the nineteenth he was operated again for obstruction of the bowels. He was taken to the hospital at Fairmont and wanted to come home the fourth of December. On the twelfth of December, he was taken to Mercy hospital in Des Moines and passed away December 19, 1921, after an operation which proved the trouble to be a cancer.

He suffered much and often repeated the Lord’s prayer. He said he was going to another world, a better one than this. His mother said, “O Dannie, you do not think you are going to pass away, do you?”

He said, “I feel it. You will see me later and I will be in your arms there the same as here. He will take my soul and keep it.”

He leaves to mourn his loss, his mother and father, one brother, Roy, and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held in the Blair Chapel church conducted by J. P. Maxwell. He was laid to rest in the little cemetery by the church.

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