Caroline (Stephens) Smith (1833-1911)

STEPHENS, SMITH, SMAY, ULUM, FLACH, ALLARD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/24/2016 at 14:38:47

From Nevada Representative April 14, 1911 (front page)

OBITUARY

DEATH OF MRS. W. K. SMITH

Mrs. W. K. Smith for nearly half a century one of the much esteemed residents of Nevada, died on Monday last at the home in Oakland, California, of her daughter, Mrs. Homer Smay, and her funeral will be conducted next Sunday afternoon from the home in this city of her brother, Thomas H. Stephens, Rev. Dr. Hunter of the Presbyterian church officiating.

The death of Mrs. Smith occasions no surprise among her family and friends. For nearly two years she had bee suffering from cancer and her condition had for a considerable time been recognized as hopeless, the end appearing as only a question of time and as affording the only possible relief affording the only possible relief from her suffering. But she is most sincerely mourned as a woman who met faithfully and well her responsibilities in life, and the members of her family are gathering here for her funeral. Those already here are her daughters, Mrs. Ulum of Perry and Miss Harriet Smith of Minneapolis; her sister, Miss Alice Smith of Chicago, and her niece, Mrs. Carrie Flach from Amboy, Illinois. Others expected include her grandson, Ernest Allard of Perry and her brothers, George Stephens of Denison and Isaac Stephens of Montrose, the latter of whom was here last week but is form the moment with the brother in Denison. The body is expected on a late train Saturday night and it is in charge of her son Ernest Smith, now of Santa Ana, California, who went to Oakland immediately on advice of his mother's death. Whether the remaining daughter, Mrs. Smay of Oakland, is with him and will he at the funeral is not understood from the telegram received.

The deceased was born Caroline Stephens. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Stephens, and she was born at Frankfort Springs, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1833 being one of the elders of a large family. While she was a child she removed with the family to Jefferson county, Ohio, and thence they all came early in 1857 to Nevada making the journey by steamboat down the Ohio and up and Mississippi to Muscatine, thence by rail to Iowa City and from there by wagon to Nevada, where they landed in April of that year. She was married here on December 267, 1858, to William K. Smith, then a young carpenter of this place, and with him she lived here until his death on October 12, 1905. Mrs. Smith is survived by four children, Mrs. Florence Ulum of Perry, Ernest Smith of Santa Ana, California, Miss Harriet Smith of Minneapolis and Mrs. Maggie Smay of Oakland, California; also by four grandchildren, by her three brothers and one sister above mentioned and by a fourth brother John in Oklahoma.