Oliver Perry "Perry" Smith (1858-1931)

SMITH, JACKSON, CASADY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/5/2024 at 13:22:26

From Story City Herald September 17, 1931 (page 8)

PERRY SMITH DIED SUNDAY

Perry Smith, resident of the community southwest of Story City since 1873, died at the old Smith home last Sunday evening, following a brief illness with pneumonia.

Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon, a the home and in the Grace church, Rev. C. l. Fuller officiating. The pall bearers were: J. C. Jessen, John N. Johnson, Matt Oswald, George Baldus, Wm. Manges and Chas. Tressler. Rev. Fuller took for his text: "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." A ladies quartet, consisting of Mrs. Stanton James, Helen Hill, Elaine Spencer and Ruth fuller, sang several selections, with Margaret Fuller at the piano. Burial was in the Center cemetery, southwest of town.

Obituary

Perry Smith, son of James T. and Susanna Smith, was born June 26, 1858 in Union county, Pa., near Mifflinburg. With his parents he moved in 1868 to a farm near Freeport, Ill. The Smith family again moved in the fall of 1873, coming to Story county and settling on the present farm southwest of Story City.

He departed this life on Sept. 13 at the age of 73 years, 2 months and 18 days. He leaves to mourn his loss, three brothers, Charlie, James and Oscar, all of Story City; four sisters, Sarah Jane and Mary of Story City, Mrs. Gertie Jackson of Gilbert and Mrs. Cora Belle Cassidy [sic] of Elk Point, S. D., beside these there are many other relatives and friends.

Perry was a kind hearted brother, a home lover, an honest neighbor and one who will be greatly missed from the home, of which he had been the head since the death of his parents.