A Find A Grave contributor has submitted information that the birth date of Feb 28, 1860 shown on the Indiana Death Certificate, number 22583, did not agree with the birth date on the headstone of Jan 9, 1869. U.S. Census reports for 1870 and 1880 list his birth year as about 1860 which agrees with the death certificate. The birth date on this memorial reflects the date on the Indiana Death Certificate which is supported by the census reports.
Following transcription provided by Find A Grave contributor Deb Lowe:
Stephen C. Smith, age 83, died at the home of his son, Porter Smith, 538 Centennial Street, Indianapolis, Ind., at 1:15 Saturday morning, July 17, 1943, of a heart ailment. He had been ill only a few days. The body was brought to the Cull & Arnold Funeral Home of Mackville Saturday evening to await rites. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Mackville Baptist Church, of which he was a member, The Rev. D. T. Jones, preaching the funeral the sermon, He was assisted by the Rev. B .M. Wesley of the Methodist Church. Burial was in Antioch Cemetery. Pallbearers were Charles Cunningham, Charlie Hall, Tom Bugg, Will Wayne, and Andrew and Lillard Smith. Surviving is the one son, Porter Smith, with whom he had been making his home about ten months.; one sister Mrs. Anne Gamble, Springfield and one brother John Smith, this county; ten grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was married three times, each of the wives having preceded him in death. Mr. Smith was a native of Washington County. The son of the late Stephen and Emma Young Smith and was born and spent his early life in the Deep Creek section. For the past thirty years he had been engaged in farming until forced to give up active work because of advanced age.
The Springfield Sun 7-22-1943
Following transcription provided by Find A Grave contributor Deb Lowe:
Stephen C. Smith, age 83, died at the home of his son, Porter Smith, 538 Centennial Street, Indianapolis, Ind., at 1:15 Saturday morning, July 17, 1943, of a heart ailment. He had been ill only a few days. The body was brought to the Cull & Arnold Funeral Home of Mackville Saturday evening to await rites. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Mackville Baptist Church, of which he was a member, The Rev. D. T. Jones, preaching the funeral the sermon, He was assisted by the Rev. B .M. Wesley of the Methodist Church. Burial was in Antioch Cemetery. Pallbearers were Charles Cunningham, Charlie Hall, Tom Bugg, Will Wayne, and Andrew and Lillard Smith. Surviving is the one son, Porter Smith, with whom he had been making his home about ten months.; one sister Mrs. Anne Gamble, Springfield and one brother John Smith, this county; ten grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was married three times, each of the wives having preceded him in death. Mr. Smith was a native of Washington County. The son of the late Stephen and Emma Young Smith and was born and spent his early life in the Deep Creek section. For the past thirty years he had been engaged in farming until forced to give up active work because of advanced age.
The Springfield Sun 7-22-1943
A Find A Grave contributor has submitted information that the birth date of Feb 28, 1860 shown on the Indiana Death Certificate, number 22583, did not agree with the birth date on the headstone of Jan 9, 1869. U.S. Census reports for 1870 and 1880 list his birth year as about 1860 which agrees with the death certificate. The birth date on this memorial reflects the date on the Indiana Death Certificate which is supported by the census reports.
Following transcription provided by Find A Grave contributor Deb Lowe:
Stephen C. Smith, age 83, died at the home of his son, Porter Smith, 538 Centennial Street, Indianapolis, Ind., at 1:15 Saturday morning, July 17, 1943, of a heart ailment. He had been ill only a few days. The body was brought to the Cull & Arnold Funeral Home of Mackville Saturday evening to await rites. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Mackville Baptist Church, of which he was a member, The Rev. D. T. Jones, preaching the funeral the sermon, He was assisted by the Rev. B .M. Wesley of the Methodist Church. Burial was in Antioch Cemetery. Pallbearers were Charles Cunningham, Charlie Hall, Tom Bugg, Will Wayne, and Andrew and Lillard Smith. Surviving is the one son, Porter Smith, with whom he had been making his home about ten months.; one sister Mrs. Anne Gamble, Springfield and one brother John Smith, this county; ten grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was married three times, each of the wives having preceded him in death. Mr. Smith was a native of Washington County. The son of the late Stephen and Emma Young Smith and was born and spent his early life in the Deep Creek section. For the past thirty years he had been engaged in farming until forced to give up active work because of advanced age.
The Springfield Sun 7-22-1943
Following transcription provided by Find A Grave contributor Deb Lowe:
Stephen C. Smith, age 83, died at the home of his son, Porter Smith, 538 Centennial Street, Indianapolis, Ind., at 1:15 Saturday morning, July 17, 1943, of a heart ailment. He had been ill only a few days. The body was brought to the Cull & Arnold Funeral Home of Mackville Saturday evening to await rites. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Mackville Baptist Church, of which he was a member, The Rev. D. T. Jones, preaching the funeral the sermon, He was assisted by the Rev. B .M. Wesley of the Methodist Church. Burial was in Antioch Cemetery. Pallbearers were Charles Cunningham, Charlie Hall, Tom Bugg, Will Wayne, and Andrew and Lillard Smith. Surviving is the one son, Porter Smith, with whom he had been making his home about ten months.; one sister Mrs. Anne Gamble, Springfield and one brother John Smith, this county; ten grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was married three times, each of the wives having preceded him in death. Mr. Smith was a native of Washington County. The son of the late Stephen and Emma Young Smith and was born and spent his early life in the Deep Creek section. For the past thirty years he had been engaged in farming until forced to give up active work because of advanced age.
The Springfield Sun 7-22-1943
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