| Lydia J. Smith
In the early morning of the day before Christmas, Mrs. Jerome
Smith, an early pioneer of this community, was called into the life
beyond after long years of splendid living in the community where she
came as a young woman. The funeral services will be held Friday morning,
December 27 at the home conducted by Rev. N. E. Lambly, and interment
will be made in the south cemetery.
Lydia Jane Bellinger was born in Steuben county, N. Y., July 12,
1849, and had reached the advanced age of 80 years, 5 months and 12 days
at the time of her death.
On November 4,1868, sixty one years ago, she was married to Jerome Smith
in New York state, and three years later, in the spring of 1872 they
came to Corning and made their home in a log house two and one half
miles south of town on the same land where is now located their
comfortable farm home.
To them were born six children, Ethel, Edith, William, Algy,
Minnie and LaVern. Ethel Morris now lives in Greeley, Colorado; Algy, in
Hartford Conn.; Minnie Seybold, near Winterset, Iowa; and LaVern resides
on the home farm. Edith and William were taken during a diptheria
epidemic at the ages of 13 and 9 years.
Mrs. Smith's life has been one of quiet, faithful home building-
a home where friends and neighbors always found a kindly welcome. She
effaced herself in the service of others through the years of her life,
but most especially was this true during the last four years while she
has been a constant nurse and loving companion of an almost helpless husband.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the Federated church of Corning and
has always done her part in every community service as long as it was
possible for her to do so. Her death brings the whole community into
sorrow and a feeling of deepest loss is in the heart of every one who
had learned to love her during the seventy-two years in which she
served, loved and was loved by those about her.
(Adams County Free Press, Thursday, December 26, 1929) |
