OBITUARY: The Salt Lake Herald., July 18, 1895, Page 8, Column 1, Paragraph 17

John F. Smith of Kaysville, yesterday received word from Port Neuff, Idaho, announcing the death at that place, of his son Joseph. The deceased was 42 years of age, and was widely known and highly respected. The body will reach Kaysville today, when the funeral will take place.
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OBITUARY: The Salt Lake Herald., July 21, 1895, Page 7, Column 5, Paragraph 1

LIGHT SHED ON A VERY MYSTERIOUS DEATH

KAYSVILLE, July 20. -- The body of Joseph Smith, a son of John S. Smith of this place, whose death at Port Neuff, Idaho was chronicled in The Herald on Thursday, reached here on a special train shortly after noon of that day. There had been some delay occasioned by an accident on the road which brought the train from the north to Ogden too late to connect with the regular southbound train.

Nothing was known of the manner of Mr. Smith's death until the body reached here, and then it was learned that he died suddenly while in bed last Monday night. He had retired that evening in his usual health, and a companion who slept in the same bed with him arose the next morning without noticing that he was dead. The gentleman went back to the room shortly after to call Mr. Smith to breakfast, and then the horrifying discovery was made that he had been sleeping for hours with a dead man. The body was cold. The grim messenger of death had evidently been very mild in summoning his subject to that other and better world, for no struggle had been made and the features of the deceased were as placid in death as though he were lying in perfectly natural sleep.

The funeral services were held Thursday afternoon and they were largely attended. The speakers on the occasion were Elders J. G. Kimball, James Robins, and Edward Phillips.