Macy J. Smith (1935)
COOK, BARNETT, GABLE, SMITH
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 1/29/2015 at 15:59:01
Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, May 2, 1935Macy J. Smith, who was born near Earlham in 1864, died at his home in California on April 12. Mr. Smith was a brother of Mrs. Ella M. Cook of Earlham. The following was clipped from a Whittier, Calif. paper.
Macy J. Smith, well known rancher of the La Habra district and formerly a citizen of Whittier, succumbed suddenly to a heart attack on the night of April 12, shortly after retiring. He had been in failing health for some time.
A large company of neighbors and friends gathered to pay their last respects to this quiet unassuming man on the following Tuesday afternoon at the East Whittier Friends Church. His pastor, Harley M. Moore, officiated.
Floral offerings were profuse and beautiful, testifying to the esteem in which he was held.
B. C. Beech of Whittier sang “There’s a Land That is Fairer Than Day” and the Misses Harriet Palmer and Mildred Sillivan sang together, “The Far-Away Home of the Soul.”
Harley Moore brought a comforting and assuring message from the book of Revelations: “and I heard a Voice from Heaven saying, “Right Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord--- and they shall rest from their labors and their works do follow them.”
Interment was made in the family plot in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier.
The pall bearers were Emmer J. Ware, Ray Wheatley, Earl B. Woodward, C. A. Barnett, Robert Sillivan and Ashton M. Otis.
Macy J. Smith and his twin brother Asa, sons of Jesse P. and Lydia Barnett Smith, were born November 7, 1864, at Earlham, Iowa. The twin brother died in infancy.
Macy Smith’s boyhood was happily spent on his father’s farm, but in 1887 while in his early twenties, he came to Whittier, Calif., and several years later became a pioneer rancher in the La Habra Valley.
For several years he lovingly and diligently cared for his aged and infirm parents until they were gathered “Home.”
Being a Friend by birthright, when the East Whittier Friends Church was founded he became one of its most earnest members and the work of the church so dear to his heart was one of his chief concerns. At the time of his death on April 12, he was serving as an elder.
He left many tangible evidences of his generosity but much of his giving may never be known here.
His upright Christian living and its beneficent influence upon his community, no mere feeble words can adequately convey.
On August 12, 1915, he was married to Miss Amy Merryman and their home was ever one of kindly hospitality. To them was born an only child, Agnes B. Smith, who with her mother, survives him.
He also leaves the following brothers and sisters: Jeptha Smith of Boise, Idaho; Ella M. Cook of Earlham, Iowa; Woody Smith of Lindsay and Annie Gable of Riverside, Calif.
East Whittier feels keenly with these, the shock of his sudden passing, yet his friends may comfort one another knowing that he was fully prepared for the change.
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