Once more the people of Mayetta and surrounding community had to lay away one of their old friends and neighbors, that they lived beside so long. Francis Marion Smith was born in Buchanan County, Missouri, March 11, 1861, and departed this life February 22, 1924, aged 62 years, 11 months and 11 days. He was united in marriage to Miss Kezih Jane Beery October 5, 1885. She departed this life January 1, 1916.
To this union were born four children, three of whom survive, one daughter dying in infancy. He was again united in marriage to Mrs. Tabitha Boyce March 6, 1923, who was his faithful companion to the last days. His parents came to Kansas when he was only three months old, settling in Jefferson County, and later in Jackson County, where he had always made his home having lived on the same place for forty years.
Those surviving him are his wife, two daughters, Mary J. Peters, Stella F. Baker, and one son, Jerry Smith, six grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. John Walrod, and four brothers, and a host of friends and relatives. The funeral services were held at the M. E. church Sunday at 1 o'clock conducted by his old preacher, Rev. Adell, who has been acquainted with him for many years. Rev. Adell made a fine talk and told how he had been at his home so many times and was always welcome. A very large crowd assembled at the church to pay their last respects to their old friend and neighbor. After the service was over, they took their farewell look, at the deceased and he was laid to rest in the Mayetta cemetery 2 ½ miles south of town. The Holton Recorder, February 28, 1924.
To this union were born four children, three of whom survive, one daughter dying in infancy. He was again united in marriage to Mrs. Tabitha Boyce March 6, 1923, who was his faithful companion to the last days. His parents came to Kansas when he was only three months old, settling in Jefferson County, and later in Jackson County, where he had always made his home having lived on the same place for forty years.
Those surviving him are his wife, two daughters, Mary J. Peters, Stella F. Baker, and one son, Jerry Smith, six grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. John Walrod, and four brothers, and a host of friends and relatives. The funeral services were held at the M. E. church Sunday at 1 o'clock conducted by his old preacher, Rev. Adell, who has been acquainted with him for many years. Rev. Adell made a fine talk and told how he had been at his home so many times and was always welcome. A very large crowd assembled at the church to pay their last respects to their old friend and neighbor. After the service was over, they took their farewell look, at the deceased and he was laid to rest in the Mayetta cemetery 2 ½ miles south of town. The Holton Recorder, February 28, 1924.
Once more the people of Mayetta and surrounding community had to lay away one of their old friends and neighbors, that they lived beside so long. Francis Marion Smith was born in Buchanan County, Missouri, March 11, 1861, and departed this life February 22, 1924, aged 62 years, 11 months and 11 days. He was united in marriage to Miss Kezih Jane Beery October 5, 1885. She departed this life January 1, 1916.
To this union were born four children, three of whom survive, one daughter dying in infancy. He was again united in marriage to Mrs. Tabitha Boyce March 6, 1923, who was his faithful companion to the last days. His parents came to Kansas when he was only three months old, settling in Jefferson County, and later in Jackson County, where he had always made his home having lived on the same place for forty years.
Those surviving him are his wife, two daughters, Mary J. Peters, Stella F. Baker, and one son, Jerry Smith, six grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. John Walrod, and four brothers, and a host of friends and relatives. The funeral services were held at the M. E. church Sunday at 1 o'clock conducted by his old preacher, Rev. Adell, who has been acquainted with him for many years. Rev. Adell made a fine talk and told how he had been at his home so many times and was always welcome. A very large crowd assembled at the church to pay their last respects to their old friend and neighbor. After the service was over, they took their farewell look, at the deceased and he was laid to rest in the Mayetta cemetery 2 ½ miles south of town. The Holton Recorder, February 28, 1924.
To this union were born four children, three of whom survive, one daughter dying in infancy. He was again united in marriage to Mrs. Tabitha Boyce March 6, 1923, who was his faithful companion to the last days. His parents came to Kansas when he was only three months old, settling in Jefferson County, and later in Jackson County, where he had always made his home having lived on the same place for forty years.
Those surviving him are his wife, two daughters, Mary J. Peters, Stella F. Baker, and one son, Jerry Smith, six grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. John Walrod, and four brothers, and a host of friends and relatives. The funeral services were held at the M. E. church Sunday at 1 o'clock conducted by his old preacher, Rev. Adell, who has been acquainted with him for many years. Rev. Adell made a fine talk and told how he had been at his home so many times and was always welcome. A very large crowd assembled at the church to pay their last respects to their old friend and neighbor. After the service was over, they took their farewell look, at the deceased and he was laid to rest in the Mayetta cemetery 2 ½ miles south of town. The Holton Recorder, February 28, 1924.
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