(Kansas) Washington Palladium, July 14, 1911

The obituary of Mrs. Smith is from an Oklahoma paper published in Sparks. Mrs. Smith is the mother of Mrs. Myers now of this city and was the wife of Wm. E. L. Smith who died several years ago. She was also and aunt of the Campbell boys of Circus fame. Two of her sons Wm. and Elmer Smith are both known here.

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Died at Sparks, Okla., June 29, 1911, Mrs. Martha Smith aged 87 years, 3 months and 17 days. Martha Campbell was born March 12, 1924, in Seneca County, New York.

At the age of eight years, she with her parents moved to Ohio, remaining there until she was 20, then moving to Montgomery county, Indiana, where she married Timothy Tansel in 1945. To this union were born three children, two of whom survive her.

In 1852 she was left a widow and in 1854 she was married to W. E. L. Smith at New Richmond, Indiana. To this union was born six children, five of are still living. W. E. L. Smith died in Washington County, Kansas, Nov, 1904, and since time she has lived with her children. Since about a year ago she has made her home with her son here, our postmaster, A. Tansel.

Mrs. Smith is the last of her family. she was a woman of strong personality, with active mentality; devoted in her domestic affairs; unswerving in her convictions of duty; sympathetic, her every impulse against oppression.

Thus passes a grand old woman who will be sadly missed among her family and friends.

She has been a loyal Christian since early girlhood, being a member of the Methodist church.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. P. Brown at the Christian church at 2:30 p.m. Friday, and the remains were laid to rest in the White Dove cemetery. An immense crowd of sorrowing friends and loved ones followed her to her last resting place.

There were present at her funeral one son, A. Tansel; a nephew, W. P. Campbell of Oklahoma City, ten grandchildren, A. Tansel's son and family coming from Ralston Okla., another son R. B. Tansel, from St. Joseph, Mo. To our sorrowing townsman and family we extend our heartfelt sympathy in their sad bereavement for the words of the poet are true that "God can give us but one mother."