Richard S. SMITH
January 8, 1886
Clinton Public
Death of Richard S. SMITH
On Tuesday last the Kellogg Bros. received a dispatch from Woodstock, Ohio, announcing the death of Richard S. SMITH that morning. On Wednesday morning the body arrived here, accompanied by Mr. S. G. SMITH, a brother of the deceased, and Mr. George STANDISH, a son of Mr. Smith's second wife. Notwithstanding the brevity of the funeral notice a large number of Mr. Smith's old friends met the body at the Illinois Central depot and escorted it to Woodlawn Cemetery, where he was buried in the family lot, alongside his first wife.
Mr. Smith was stricken down with disease last July, and two months later he lost his reason. From then till his death he was insane. After his death the attending physicians held a post-mortem examination and the result of their investigation was that Mr. Smith had been suffering from chronic congestion of the brain for between four and five years, and all that was necessary in his case to develop insanity was some mental or physical strain. During the early part of last year he had been hard at work fixing up his new home in Ohio, and in July he broke down.
For a long number of years Mr. Smith owned the fine farm now owned by Mr. C. C. Kellogg. Everybody knew "Uncle Dickey," for he was a genial soul. In his business relations he was straight-forward and honorable. After the death of his first wife he sold his share of the farm to his brother-in-law, Mr. C. C. Kellogg, and nearly four years ago he moved to Woodstock, Ohio, where he afterward married his second wife, Mrs. Standish.
At the time of his death he was sixty-six years of age. He left an estate worth about $12,000, all of which goes to his second wife, as Mr. Smith had no children.
January 8, 1886
Clinton Public
Death of Richard S. SMITH
On Tuesday last the Kellogg Bros. received a dispatch from Woodstock, Ohio, announcing the death of Richard S. SMITH that morning. On Wednesday morning the body arrived here, accompanied by Mr. S. G. SMITH, a brother of the deceased, and Mr. George STANDISH, a son of Mr. Smith's second wife. Notwithstanding the brevity of the funeral notice a large number of Mr. Smith's old friends met the body at the Illinois Central depot and escorted it to Woodlawn Cemetery, where he was buried in the family lot, alongside his first wife.
Mr. Smith was stricken down with disease last July, and two months later he lost his reason. From then till his death he was insane. After his death the attending physicians held a post-mortem examination and the result of their investigation was that Mr. Smith had been suffering from chronic congestion of the brain for between four and five years, and all that was necessary in his case to develop insanity was some mental or physical strain. During the early part of last year he had been hard at work fixing up his new home in Ohio, and in July he broke down.
For a long number of years Mr. Smith owned the fine farm now owned by Mr. C. C. Kellogg. Everybody knew "Uncle Dickey," for he was a genial soul. In his business relations he was straight-forward and honorable. After the death of his first wife he sold his share of the farm to his brother-in-law, Mr. C. C. Kellogg, and nearly four years ago he moved to Woodstock, Ohio, where he afterward married his second wife, Mrs. Standish.
At the time of his death he was sixty-six years of age. He left an estate worth about $12,000, all of which goes to his second wife, as Mr. Smith had no children.
Richard S. SMITH
January 8, 1886
Clinton Public
Death of Richard S. SMITH
On Tuesday last the Kellogg Bros. received a dispatch from Woodstock, Ohio, announcing the death of Richard S. SMITH that morning. On Wednesday morning the body arrived here, accompanied by Mr. S. G. SMITH, a brother of the deceased, and Mr. George STANDISH, a son of Mr. Smith's second wife. Notwithstanding the brevity of the funeral notice a large number of Mr. Smith's old friends met the body at the Illinois Central depot and escorted it to Woodlawn Cemetery, where he was buried in the family lot, alongside his first wife.
Mr. Smith was stricken down with disease last July, and two months later he lost his reason. From then till his death he was insane. After his death the attending physicians held a post-mortem examination and the result of their investigation was that Mr. Smith had been suffering from chronic congestion of the brain for between four and five years, and all that was necessary in his case to develop insanity was some mental or physical strain. During the early part of last year he had been hard at work fixing up his new home in Ohio, and in July he broke down.
For a long number of years Mr. Smith owned the fine farm now owned by Mr. C. C. Kellogg. Everybody knew "Uncle Dickey," for he was a genial soul. In his business relations he was straight-forward and honorable. After the death of his first wife he sold his share of the farm to his brother-in-law, Mr. C. C. Kellogg, and nearly four years ago he moved to Woodstock, Ohio, where he afterward married his second wife, Mrs. Standish.
At the time of his death he was sixty-six years of age. He left an estate worth about $12,000, all of which goes to his second wife, as Mr. Smith had no children.
January 8, 1886
Clinton Public
Death of Richard S. SMITH
On Tuesday last the Kellogg Bros. received a dispatch from Woodstock, Ohio, announcing the death of Richard S. SMITH that morning. On Wednesday morning the body arrived here, accompanied by Mr. S. G. SMITH, a brother of the deceased, and Mr. George STANDISH, a son of Mr. Smith's second wife. Notwithstanding the brevity of the funeral notice a large number of Mr. Smith's old friends met the body at the Illinois Central depot and escorted it to Woodlawn Cemetery, where he was buried in the family lot, alongside his first wife.
Mr. Smith was stricken down with disease last July, and two months later he lost his reason. From then till his death he was insane. After his death the attending physicians held a post-mortem examination and the result of their investigation was that Mr. Smith had been suffering from chronic congestion of the brain for between four and five years, and all that was necessary in his case to develop insanity was some mental or physical strain. During the early part of last year he had been hard at work fixing up his new home in Ohio, and in July he broke down.
For a long number of years Mr. Smith owned the fine farm now owned by Mr. C. C. Kellogg. Everybody knew "Uncle Dickey," for he was a genial soul. In his business relations he was straight-forward and honorable. After the death of his first wife he sold his share of the farm to his brother-in-law, Mr. C. C. Kellogg, and nearly four years ago he moved to Woodstock, Ohio, where he afterward married his second wife, Mrs. Standish.
At the time of his death he was sixty-six years of age. He left an estate worth about $12,000, all of which goes to his second wife, as Mr. Smith had no children.
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