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Samuel Francis Smith

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Samuel Francis Smith

Birth
Parowan, Iron County, Utah, USA
Death
24 Jan 1954 (aged 80)
Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
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Y-28-3
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**According to his death certificate, he died in Holbrook.

Winslow Mail, January 29, 1954, page 7:
Death Takes Samuel Smith At Snowflake

Final rites were held at Snowflake on Wednesday afternoon for Samuel F. Smith, 80, for 33 years president of the Snowflake Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mr. Smith died at his home in Snowflake early Sunday after several years of failing health.

A native of Utah, he came to Arizona at the age of 5 with his father, Jesse N. Smith, who preceded him as president of Snowflake Stake. For many years Samuel was manager of the Snowflake branch of the Arizona Cooperative Mercantile Institution. He was stake president from 1906 until 1939, and was known and loved by members of his church in Flagstaff, Winslow, Joseph City, Holbrook, Woodruff, Snowflake, Taylor, Pinedale, Lakeside, Show Low, Clay Springs, Heber and McNary, where there were churches over which he presided.

He leaves his wife, 11 of 13 children,16 brothers and sisters, 26 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Sons are Dr. Francis L. Smith, of Davis, Calif.; Col. Carl N. Smith, Camp Carson, Colo.; Harold H. Smith, Heber, Utah; J. Lorenzo; Smith, Salt Lake City; and Robert J. Smith, Provo, Utah. His daughters are Mrs. Kenneth S. Boyle and Miss Edna Smith of Phoenix, Maurine Smith of Snowflake, Mrs. J. D. Hansen of Joseph City, Mrs. Jess N. Dewey of Los Angeles, and Mrs. LeGrand Mathis of Ogden Utah.
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**According to his death certificate, he died in Holbrook.

Winslow Mail, January 29, 1954, page 7:
Death Takes Samuel Smith At Snowflake

Final rites were held at Snowflake on Wednesday afternoon for Samuel F. Smith, 80, for 33 years president of the Snowflake Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mr. Smith died at his home in Snowflake early Sunday after several years of failing health.

A native of Utah, he came to Arizona at the age of 5 with his father, Jesse N. Smith, who preceded him as president of Snowflake Stake. For many years Samuel was manager of the Snowflake branch of the Arizona Cooperative Mercantile Institution. He was stake president from 1906 until 1939, and was known and loved by members of his church in Flagstaff, Winslow, Joseph City, Holbrook, Woodruff, Snowflake, Taylor, Pinedale, Lakeside, Show Low, Clay Springs, Heber and McNary, where there were churches over which he presided.

He leaves his wife, 11 of 13 children,16 brothers and sisters, 26 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Sons are Dr. Francis L. Smith, of Davis, Calif.; Col. Carl N. Smith, Camp Carson, Colo.; Harold H. Smith, Heber, Utah; J. Lorenzo; Smith, Salt Lake City; and Robert J. Smith, Provo, Utah. His daughters are Mrs. Kenneth S. Boyle and Miss Edna Smith of Phoenix, Maurine Smith of Snowflake, Mrs. J. D. Hansen of Joseph City, Mrs. Jess N. Dewey of Los Angeles, and Mrs. LeGrand Mathis of Ogden Utah.
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