Son of James H & Elizabeth Smith
Alton Evening Telegraph
Thursday, April 1, 1897
Joseph H Smith
At Moro, Tuesday, one of the best known and highly respected and well-to-do farmers of the township was buried.
Joseph Harvey Smith died Sunday morning March 29, 1897, after only one week's sickness, in the fortieth year of his age. He was the third son of Harvey and Elizabeth Smith, and his home had always been in Moro township.
Few men have ever been held in higher estimation by those around them. An upright character, firm and resolute in his convictions, careful in his actions, these were the elements that made the man who to know was to honor and respect.
Early in the history of the township organization he was the Town Clerk so long as he would consent to the use of his name for the place.
For nine years he was a member of the Moro School Board and always took much interest in endeavoring to promote the school to be the best of its kind. His term as director would have expired in April next. Three years ago when his friends were urging him to accept, he finally consented and said, "It will be the last time." Little did he or his friends think of the one great reason, now a reality, why he could not accept.
In January 1885, he was married to Alice Montgomery. She with three children, his mother, two brothers and five sisters and a large circle of friends mourn his death.
At the age of ten years he united with the Presbyterian church. In relating his experience at a church meeting within the last month he stated that he little realized what the step meant, but as he looked back over time he considered it the most important act of his life.
Ten years he was at the head of the Sunday school and at one time was President of the Madison County S S Association. As an advocate of the temperance cause he was always at the front. He "hewed to the line and let the chips fall where they would."
At the time of his death, he was President of the local C E Society, and resolutions of respect, honor and faithfulness have been passed by the Society.
The funeral rites were conducted at the Presbyterian church, Rev W H Bradley, of Upper Alton, assisted by the pastor, Rev C Smith, officiating. Some sixty members of the W C T U gathered around the casket and covered it with thirty-nine beautiful white roses in memory of their friend and the purity of the life he had lived. There were other floral offerings, among them a large pillow bearing the words, "Our Teacher", contributed by the Sunday school class.
The pall bearers were some twenty young and middle aged men who constituted the Sunday school class taught by Mr Smith. The active pallbearers were Ernest Smith, Geo DeWerff, Zeph Bivens, Lovey Largent, A D Riley and Will Green. The remains were interred in the cemetery adjoining the church.
Mr Smith was a reader of the Telegraph. He read it from his earliest recollections and scarcely an issue of the weekly has failed to reach him.
Alton Evening Telegraph
Thursday, April 1, 1897
Joseph H Smith
At Moro, Tuesday, one of the best known and highly respected and well-to-do farmers of the township was buried.
Joseph Harvey Smith died Sunday morning March 29, 1897, after only one week's sickness, in the fortieth year of his age. He was the third son of Harvey and Elizabeth Smith, and his home had always been in Moro township.
Few men have ever been held in higher estimation by those around them. An upright character, firm and resolute in his convictions, careful in his actions, these were the elements that made the man who to know was to honor and respect.
Early in the history of the township organization he was the Town Clerk so long as he would consent to the use of his name for the place.
For nine years he was a member of the Moro School Board and always took much interest in endeavoring to promote the school to be the best of its kind. His term as director would have expired in April next. Three years ago when his friends were urging him to accept, he finally consented and said, "It will be the last time." Little did he or his friends think of the one great reason, now a reality, why he could not accept.
In January 1885, he was married to Alice Montgomery. She with three children, his mother, two brothers and five sisters and a large circle of friends mourn his death.
At the age of ten years he united with the Presbyterian church. In relating his experience at a church meeting within the last month he stated that he little realized what the step meant, but as he looked back over time he considered it the most important act of his life.
Ten years he was at the head of the Sunday school and at one time was President of the Madison County S S Association. As an advocate of the temperance cause he was always at the front. He "hewed to the line and let the chips fall where they would."
At the time of his death, he was President of the local C E Society, and resolutions of respect, honor and faithfulness have been passed by the Society.
The funeral rites were conducted at the Presbyterian church, Rev W H Bradley, of Upper Alton, assisted by the pastor, Rev C Smith, officiating. Some sixty members of the W C T U gathered around the casket and covered it with thirty-nine beautiful white roses in memory of their friend and the purity of the life he had lived. There were other floral offerings, among them a large pillow bearing the words, "Our Teacher", contributed by the Sunday school class.
The pall bearers were some twenty young and middle aged men who constituted the Sunday school class taught by Mr Smith. The active pallbearers were Ernest Smith, Geo DeWerff, Zeph Bivens, Lovey Largent, A D Riley and Will Green. The remains were interred in the cemetery adjoining the church.
Mr Smith was a reader of the Telegraph. He read it from his earliest recollections and scarcely an issue of the weekly has failed to reach him.
Son of James H & Elizabeth Smith
Alton Evening Telegraph
Thursday, April 1, 1897
Joseph H Smith
At Moro, Tuesday, one of the best known and highly respected and well-to-do farmers of the township was buried.
Joseph Harvey Smith died Sunday morning March 29, 1897, after only one week's sickness, in the fortieth year of his age. He was the third son of Harvey and Elizabeth Smith, and his home had always been in Moro township.
Few men have ever been held in higher estimation by those around them. An upright character, firm and resolute in his convictions, careful in his actions, these were the elements that made the man who to know was to honor and respect.
Early in the history of the township organization he was the Town Clerk so long as he would consent to the use of his name for the place.
For nine years he was a member of the Moro School Board and always took much interest in endeavoring to promote the school to be the best of its kind. His term as director would have expired in April next. Three years ago when his friends were urging him to accept, he finally consented and said, "It will be the last time." Little did he or his friends think of the one great reason, now a reality, why he could not accept.
In January 1885, he was married to Alice Montgomery. She with three children, his mother, two brothers and five sisters and a large circle of friends mourn his death.
At the age of ten years he united with the Presbyterian church. In relating his experience at a church meeting within the last month he stated that he little realized what the step meant, but as he looked back over time he considered it the most important act of his life.
Ten years he was at the head of the Sunday school and at one time was President of the Madison County S S Association. As an advocate of the temperance cause he was always at the front. He "hewed to the line and let the chips fall where they would."
At the time of his death, he was President of the local C E Society, and resolutions of respect, honor and faithfulness have been passed by the Society.
The funeral rites were conducted at the Presbyterian church, Rev W H Bradley, of Upper Alton, assisted by the pastor, Rev C Smith, officiating. Some sixty members of the W C T U gathered around the casket and covered it with thirty-nine beautiful white roses in memory of their friend and the purity of the life he had lived. There were other floral offerings, among them a large pillow bearing the words, "Our Teacher", contributed by the Sunday school class.
The pall bearers were some twenty young and middle aged men who constituted the Sunday school class taught by Mr Smith. The active pallbearers were Ernest Smith, Geo DeWerff, Zeph Bivens, Lovey Largent, A D Riley and Will Green. The remains were interred in the cemetery adjoining the church.
Mr Smith was a reader of the Telegraph. He read it from his earliest recollections and scarcely an issue of the weekly has failed to reach him.
Alton Evening Telegraph
Thursday, April 1, 1897
Joseph H Smith
At Moro, Tuesday, one of the best known and highly respected and well-to-do farmers of the township was buried.
Joseph Harvey Smith died Sunday morning March 29, 1897, after only one week's sickness, in the fortieth year of his age. He was the third son of Harvey and Elizabeth Smith, and his home had always been in Moro township.
Few men have ever been held in higher estimation by those around them. An upright character, firm and resolute in his convictions, careful in his actions, these were the elements that made the man who to know was to honor and respect.
Early in the history of the township organization he was the Town Clerk so long as he would consent to the use of his name for the place.
For nine years he was a member of the Moro School Board and always took much interest in endeavoring to promote the school to be the best of its kind. His term as director would have expired in April next. Three years ago when his friends were urging him to accept, he finally consented and said, "It will be the last time." Little did he or his friends think of the one great reason, now a reality, why he could not accept.
In January 1885, he was married to Alice Montgomery. She with three children, his mother, two brothers and five sisters and a large circle of friends mourn his death.
At the age of ten years he united with the Presbyterian church. In relating his experience at a church meeting within the last month he stated that he little realized what the step meant, but as he looked back over time he considered it the most important act of his life.
Ten years he was at the head of the Sunday school and at one time was President of the Madison County S S Association. As an advocate of the temperance cause he was always at the front. He "hewed to the line and let the chips fall where they would."
At the time of his death, he was President of the local C E Society, and resolutions of respect, honor and faithfulness have been passed by the Society.
The funeral rites were conducted at the Presbyterian church, Rev W H Bradley, of Upper Alton, assisted by the pastor, Rev C Smith, officiating. Some sixty members of the W C T U gathered around the casket and covered it with thirty-nine beautiful white roses in memory of their friend and the purity of the life he had lived. There were other floral offerings, among them a large pillow bearing the words, "Our Teacher", contributed by the Sunday school class.
The pall bearers were some twenty young and middle aged men who constituted the Sunday school class taught by Mr Smith. The active pallbearers were Ernest Smith, Geo DeWerff, Zeph Bivens, Lovey Largent, A D Riley and Will Green. The remains were interred in the cemetery adjoining the church.
Mr Smith was a reader of the Telegraph. He read it from his earliest recollections and scarcely an issue of the weekly has failed to reach him.
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