"MATT" SMALLWOOD

WELL KNOWN RESIDENT OF SAGE TP.
PASSES AWAY AT HOSPITAL IN BAY CITY.

"Matt" Smallwood of Sage township died at Mercy hospital, Bay City, Sunday, at 12;30 p.m. Mr. Smallwood was operated on for appendicitis four years ago last August, and had since been in poor health. Nine weeks ago he was taken with pleurisy and went to the hospital at Bay City, where he stayed a short time, when he returned home, only to return to the hospital two weeks later.

Madison Philmore Smallwood of Sage township was born Aug. 3, 1873, agt Nelsonville, Ohio, and died March 19, 1916, at Bay City, aged 42 years, 7 months and 16 days. At the age of two years he came, with his parents, to Gladwin county, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was married to Edith May Hayward of Sage township, April 27, 1897, and to this union was born one daughter, Lulu May, who is left with her mother to mourn the loss of a kind father and a loving husband.

Besides the immediate family, Mr. Smallwood leaves to mourn his loss four sisters---Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson of Sage township, Mrs. Jane Boals of Tobacco township, Mrs. Mary M. Hardy of Plains, Ohio, Mrs. Lucy T. Dumont of Beaverton; and four brothers, George W. of Saginaw, Ellis of Gladwin, John of Hay township and Pearl M. of Wadsworth, Ohio. These with a host of friends and neighbors will miss him in the daily walks of life.

Mr. Smallwood for several years had been highway commissioner in his township, and he had been renominated this year. He had cleared a good farm where he lived many years.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. James Phillips at the M. E. church in Gladwin, Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., with interment in Highland cemetery. Gladwin County Record dated 3-23-1916 Column – 4 Page – 7.