A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Thomas Adams Smith
From the Hillis/Abney/Franklin/Smith web site:
A clipping from the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection
at the University of Missouri Columbia, MO
May 1919
DR. THOMAS A. SMITH DEAD
Descendant of Honored Ancestry a Citizen of Saline County Passes Away
At his home, 427 East Arrow, Dr. Thomas A. Smith a prominent and well known citizen of Marshall and Saline County died Tuesday May 20, at 10 minutes of 2 a.m. The doctor had been in failing health for a year or more and the past winter was the first in several years that he and Mrs. Smith have remained at home, but on account of his health they were unable to go south.
For several weeks his condition had been critical and for the past week or ten days it has been known the end was near. In addition to a nurse living here a trained nurse from Kansas City has been with him for some time and the surviving wife and daughters have been almost constantly at his bedside. But medical skill, trained nurses and tender ministrations failed to detain the loved husband and father and grandfather, whose chief pleasure was to have in the home as much as possible the children and grandchildren.
Dr. Smith was the grandson of the late Brigadier General Thomas A. Smith for whom he was named and who was a very conspicuous figure among the early settlers of this county and entered the U.S. army as a lieutenant in 1805 and reached the promotion to brigadier general in 1815. The deceased was the son of the late Dr. Crawford E. and Virginia Penn Smith, and was born at Experiment, his father's farm near Napton, September 10, 1858. When about 10 years old the family moved to St. Louis and that city was their home for a number of years. After a thorough elementary education by private tutors at home, Dr. Smith was sent to the Kemper Military school in Boonville, afterward graduating from a medical school in St Louis.
On October 12, 1880 he was married to the surviving wife, who was Miss Kate Howard daughter of Col. William Howard, a prominent St. Louis merchant. He located in the practice of his profession in St. Louis and remained there until the death of his father. The latter having left him lands in this county. With the wife and four children he moved to the farm adjoining Napton and became a successful farmer, extensive cattle feeder, banker and all round man of affairs. Later the family moved to Marshall and bought the Carter home on East Arrow Street where they have lived for a number of years. The three daughters ho survive are Mrs. Shelton and Mrs. Hood Abney of Napton and Mrs. Harold Scott of ST. Louis. Two brothers and four sisters also survive. George P. Smith who resides at Experiment the old homestead of the Smith family and Phillip Smith of near Napton; the sisters are Misses Mary and Bella Smith, Mrs. Hall, wife of Dr. Tom Hall and Mrs. Len Stouffer all of Saline County.
Death has taken from our midst not only a prominent and leading citizen but a truly good man, one who had much kindness in his heart and who was a pattern in his devotion to his family. He was reared a Presbyterian and it was through his influence and liberality that Memorial Presbyterian church at Napton was built and it is in the cemetery of this church that the remains of the doctor will be laid be side his grandfather and grandmother and parents and two sons Albert and Crawford. The funeral will take place from the family residence on East Arrow Street Wednesday at 2:30 pm and will be conducted by the Reverend Dudley M Claggett a former pastor of Memorial church, but now pastor of Presbyterian Church at St. Joseph. He will be assisted in the service by…..(end of clipping)
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