The fourth child and third daughter of John Wesley and Catherine (Marriott) Smith, Eva was the first of her siblings to be born after the family came to Texas.
She married Benjamin Franklin Anderson in Collin County on 26 July 1903, and is known to have had one child, Jewel W., born in August of 1909.
Eva passed away in the same year her son was born. Her husband never remarried.
SUDDEN DEATH NEAR WYLIE
News has been received here of the sudden death near Wylie, Thursday of Mrs. Frank Anderson, daughter of J. Wesley Smith, her husband and father both being substantial and highly respected citizens of that community. Mrs. Anderson was reared there and was a splendid young woman, beloved by all who knew her, but for quite awhile she had been in very bad health, which affected her to such an extent that in a moment of aberration she drank some carbolic acid which soon resulted in her death after intense suffering. She was only twenty-seven years of age, and besides her father, husband and other relatives is survived by a four-months-old babe.
Funeral services were held at the Baptist church at Wylie Saturday afternoon in the presence of a great throng of sorrowing relatives and friends, after which the interment of the remains was made in the Wylie cemetery. --The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Texas); Thursday, 09 Dec 1909; pg. 6, col. 4
She married Benjamin Franklin Anderson in Collin County on 26 July 1903, and is known to have had one child, Jewel W., born in August of 1909.
Eva passed away in the same year her son was born. Her husband never remarried.
SUDDEN DEATH NEAR WYLIE
News has been received here of the sudden death near Wylie, Thursday of Mrs. Frank Anderson, daughter of J. Wesley Smith, her husband and father both being substantial and highly respected citizens of that community. Mrs. Anderson was reared there and was a splendid young woman, beloved by all who knew her, but for quite awhile she had been in very bad health, which affected her to such an extent that in a moment of aberration she drank some carbolic acid which soon resulted in her death after intense suffering. She was only twenty-seven years of age, and besides her father, husband and other relatives is survived by a four-months-old babe.
Funeral services were held at the Baptist church at Wylie Saturday afternoon in the presence of a great throng of sorrowing relatives and friends, after which the interment of the remains was made in the Wylie cemetery. --The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Texas); Thursday, 09 Dec 1909; pg. 6, col. 4
The fourth child and third daughter of John Wesley and Catherine (Marriott) Smith, Eva was the first of her siblings to be born after the family came to Texas.
She married Benjamin Franklin Anderson in Collin County on 26 July 1903, and is known to have had one child, Jewel W., born in August of 1909.
Eva passed away in the same year her son was born. Her husband never remarried.
SUDDEN DEATH NEAR WYLIE
News has been received here of the sudden death near Wylie, Thursday of Mrs. Frank Anderson, daughter of J. Wesley Smith, her husband and father both being substantial and highly respected citizens of that community. Mrs. Anderson was reared there and was a splendid young woman, beloved by all who knew her, but for quite awhile she had been in very bad health, which affected her to such an extent that in a moment of aberration she drank some carbolic acid which soon resulted in her death after intense suffering. She was only twenty-seven years of age, and besides her father, husband and other relatives is survived by a four-months-old babe.
Funeral services were held at the Baptist church at Wylie Saturday afternoon in the presence of a great throng of sorrowing relatives and friends, after which the interment of the remains was made in the Wylie cemetery. --The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Texas); Thursday, 09 Dec 1909; pg. 6, col. 4
She married Benjamin Franklin Anderson in Collin County on 26 July 1903, and is known to have had one child, Jewel W., born in August of 1909.
Eva passed away in the same year her son was born. Her husband never remarried.
SUDDEN DEATH NEAR WYLIE
News has been received here of the sudden death near Wylie, Thursday of Mrs. Frank Anderson, daughter of J. Wesley Smith, her husband and father both being substantial and highly respected citizens of that community. Mrs. Anderson was reared there and was a splendid young woman, beloved by all who knew her, but for quite awhile she had been in very bad health, which affected her to such an extent that in a moment of aberration she drank some carbolic acid which soon resulted in her death after intense suffering. She was only twenty-seven years of age, and besides her father, husband and other relatives is survived by a four-months-old babe.
Funeral services were held at the Baptist church at Wylie Saturday afternoon in the presence of a great throng of sorrowing relatives and friends, after which the interment of the remains was made in the Wylie cemetery. --The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Texas); Thursday, 09 Dec 1909; pg. 6, col. 4
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