Robert Delson Smith (1842-1925)

SMITH, HIX, GLANZ, WYKE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/14/2022 at 18:28:44

From Nevada Evening Journal October 12, 1925 (page 4)

CIVIL WAR VETERAN ANSWERED 'TAPS'

ROBERT D. SMITH DIED FRIDAY AND FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TUESDAY.

Special to the Journal.
Zearing, Oct. 12--Robert D. Smith, 83, Civil war veteran and one of the pioneers of this community died Friday evening, October 9, at his home in south Zearing from the effects of a stroke of paralysis suffered about two weeks before his passing.

The funeral services will be held Tuesday. There will be short services at the home at 1 o'clock, followed by public services at 1:30 at Bethel Evangelical church. His pastor R. H. Aurand will officiate, assisted by a grandson, Rev. Ed Wyke of West Union. Interment will be in the cemetery at Colo.

Robert Delson Smith was born in Hunterdon county, N. J. March 4, 1842 and died at his home in Zearing October 9, 1925, age 83 years, 7 months and 5 days.

When a lad of nine years he came west with his people and settled in Stevenson county, Ill., where he lived until the Civil war broke when he enlisted in Company G, 92d Illinois Mounted Infantry and served from 1862 until the close of the war in 1865.

It was on December 23, 1865 that he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Smith and had he lived until Dec. 23 next he and Mrs. Smith would have celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage.

The Smiths are pioneers of this part of Story county having located on their farm southwest of the site of Zearing, before that town was started. He was a man of industry and integrity and of a clean Christian spirit.

Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith but one of them preceded them in death. The two sons William Smith of Florida and Frank Smith of Elmore, Minn., while the daughters are Mrs. Cora Hix of Zearing and Mrs. Mary E. Glanz of Des Moines. He also leaves 15 grand children and 25 great grandchildren.