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Obituary- Smith, Martin 2

Martin Smith was born April 17, 1837 near White Creek, New York. He was one of a family of eight, 5 boys and 3 girls. One sister, Julia Frisbie, Geneva, N.Y., and one brother, Benjamin, White Creek, N.Y., survive him. He joined the A.F. & A.M. Tucker lodge, N. Bennington, Vermont during the fall and winter of 1860, and united with the Baptist church the following year at Shaftsbury, Vt. He was married to Alice H. Fuller, at White Creek, N.Y. Oct. 1, 1867. One child, C.M., being born of the union who survives them.

Mr. Smith came to Kansas in 1872 Apr. 14, and located on the farm south of this city where he has resided ever since, never having returned to his native state. He joined the A.O.U.W. soon after its organization in this city and was a member in good standing at his death. His wife died May 18, 1900, since which he has made his home with his son Cassius M. Smith. A few years ago his eyesight became affected and for more than a year prior to his death was totally blind.

Before coming to Kansas Mr. Smith was engaged a part of the time in hauling print cloth from the factory at N. Adams, Mass. to the shipping points and also for a number of years was employed in the great Burden Iron works at Troy N.Y.

Mr. Smith was a man of sterling traits of character - honest, industrious, just, peaceful and generous. There are none to speak ill but all join in paying tribute to his many virtues. A neighbor who had known him for almost a half century remarked that "no better man ever lived than Martin Smith" - the greatest eulogy that can be spoken.

[From The Rossville Reporter, August 11, 1905]

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