Clarence Lee Goldsmith

GOLDSMITH, CUREST

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/16/2014 at 16:15:20

C.L. GOLDSMITH, 60, SUCCUMBS

Native of LeClaire Dies in Lyons, After Several Months’ Illness.

LeClaire, Ia., April 28.--Funeral services for Clarence Lee Goldsmith, native of this place, whose death occurred Sunday evening in his home in Lyons, Iowa, were held at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon in Lyons and the body taken here for interment in the LeClaire cemetery. Mr. Goldsmith’s death followed an eight month’s illness.

He was born April 20, 1865, in LeClaire and had been in Lyons the last quarter of a century, a marine engineer and pilot. For many years he had been state carpenter and electrician in the Orpheum theater, Clinton. Besides the widow, formerly Catherine Hall, he is survived by a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Mrs. Isabelle Curest of New Haven, Conn.

The Rev. Daniel Horgan of the Community church officiated at the funeral service.

Source: The Davenport Democrat and Leader, Davenport, Ia., 28 Apr 1925, p.3.

Other notes: 1885 Iowa State Census, Scott County, LeClaire. Goldsmith, Clarence 24 Engineer, 1910 Census, Clinton County, Clinton City, Iowa, Goldsmith C. L. Head 38 Engineer Steamboat. Source unknown.