Son of Sarah Kimbrough Martin and Nathaniel G. Smith.
CO I 3 ARK INF CSA
SMITH-At Tulip, Dallas County, Arkansas , October 6, 1893, JOHN MARTIN SMITH, aged 54 years.
Capt. "Jack" Smith, as he was familiarly known, was the eldest son of Gen. Nat. G. and Sarah K. Smith. He was born February 7, 1829, in Hardeman County, Tenn. He was married in 1872 to Miss Etta Bocage; his wife and four children survive him.
He was on a visit to his sister and brother, Mrs. M. K. Roane and Lem P. Smith, at the old home at Tulip when his fatal illness overtook him; surrounded by those who did all that love and affection could suggest to make his last hours pleasant and peaceful, he passed to his reward. There his faults and failures, merits and good qualities will be measured by a standard more just and merciful than man's.
Many men make more friends, but few make less enemies than did "Jack" Smith.
Honorable, high-strung, morbidly sensitive, he was by nature a dreamer, but his dreams were ever for the good of his fellow-men. Cradles in the lap of wealth as a child and growing to a young manhood before the wreck and ruin of the civil war, he could never adapt himself to the changed conditions after that memorable struggle that blighted so many happy homes.
Returning home after having responded to his country's call-he having served on the staff of Gen. John S. Roane-he took up the burdens of life and "did what he could," but life with him was not a success as we measure it. At last wearied and tired out with a helpless fight against a cold, hard world, he lies down to a rest that, let us hope, will be as peaceful as his life was hard and cheerless.
To his sorrowing family we extend our heartfelt sympathy, and condolence, and trust in that brighter and better world they will meet husband, father and brother and we our tired and respected friend.
CO I 3 ARK INF CSA
SMITH-At Tulip, Dallas County, Arkansas , October 6, 1893, JOHN MARTIN SMITH, aged 54 years.
Capt. "Jack" Smith, as he was familiarly known, was the eldest son of Gen. Nat. G. and Sarah K. Smith. He was born February 7, 1829, in Hardeman County, Tenn. He was married in 1872 to Miss Etta Bocage; his wife and four children survive him.
He was on a visit to his sister and brother, Mrs. M. K. Roane and Lem P. Smith, at the old home at Tulip when his fatal illness overtook him; surrounded by those who did all that love and affection could suggest to make his last hours pleasant and peaceful, he passed to his reward. There his faults and failures, merits and good qualities will be measured by a standard more just and merciful than man's.
Many men make more friends, but few make less enemies than did "Jack" Smith.
Honorable, high-strung, morbidly sensitive, he was by nature a dreamer, but his dreams were ever for the good of his fellow-men. Cradles in the lap of wealth as a child and growing to a young manhood before the wreck and ruin of the civil war, he could never adapt himself to the changed conditions after that memorable struggle that blighted so many happy homes.
Returning home after having responded to his country's call-he having served on the staff of Gen. John S. Roane-he took up the burdens of life and "did what he could," but life with him was not a success as we measure it. At last wearied and tired out with a helpless fight against a cold, hard world, he lies down to a rest that, let us hope, will be as peaceful as his life was hard and cheerless.
To his sorrowing family we extend our heartfelt sympathy, and condolence, and trust in that brighter and better world they will meet husband, father and brother and we our tired and respected friend.
Son of Sarah Kimbrough Martin and Nathaniel G. Smith.
CO I 3 ARK INF CSA
SMITH-At Tulip, Dallas County, Arkansas , October 6, 1893, JOHN MARTIN SMITH, aged 54 years.
Capt. "Jack" Smith, as he was familiarly known, was the eldest son of Gen. Nat. G. and Sarah K. Smith. He was born February 7, 1829, in Hardeman County, Tenn. He was married in 1872 to Miss Etta Bocage; his wife and four children survive him.
He was on a visit to his sister and brother, Mrs. M. K. Roane and Lem P. Smith, at the old home at Tulip when his fatal illness overtook him; surrounded by those who did all that love and affection could suggest to make his last hours pleasant and peaceful, he passed to his reward. There his faults and failures, merits and good qualities will be measured by a standard more just and merciful than man's.
Many men make more friends, but few make less enemies than did "Jack" Smith.
Honorable, high-strung, morbidly sensitive, he was by nature a dreamer, but his dreams were ever for the good of his fellow-men. Cradles in the lap of wealth as a child and growing to a young manhood before the wreck and ruin of the civil war, he could never adapt himself to the changed conditions after that memorable struggle that blighted so many happy homes.
Returning home after having responded to his country's call-he having served on the staff of Gen. John S. Roane-he took up the burdens of life and "did what he could," but life with him was not a success as we measure it. At last wearied and tired out with a helpless fight against a cold, hard world, he lies down to a rest that, let us hope, will be as peaceful as his life was hard and cheerless.
To his sorrowing family we extend our heartfelt sympathy, and condolence, and trust in that brighter and better world they will meet husband, father and brother and we our tired and respected friend.
CO I 3 ARK INF CSA
SMITH-At Tulip, Dallas County, Arkansas , October 6, 1893, JOHN MARTIN SMITH, aged 54 years.
Capt. "Jack" Smith, as he was familiarly known, was the eldest son of Gen. Nat. G. and Sarah K. Smith. He was born February 7, 1829, in Hardeman County, Tenn. He was married in 1872 to Miss Etta Bocage; his wife and four children survive him.
He was on a visit to his sister and brother, Mrs. M. K. Roane and Lem P. Smith, at the old home at Tulip when his fatal illness overtook him; surrounded by those who did all that love and affection could suggest to make his last hours pleasant and peaceful, he passed to his reward. There his faults and failures, merits and good qualities will be measured by a standard more just and merciful than man's.
Many men make more friends, but few make less enemies than did "Jack" Smith.
Honorable, high-strung, morbidly sensitive, he was by nature a dreamer, but his dreams were ever for the good of his fellow-men. Cradles in the lap of wealth as a child and growing to a young manhood before the wreck and ruin of the civil war, he could never adapt himself to the changed conditions after that memorable struggle that blighted so many happy homes.
Returning home after having responded to his country's call-he having served on the staff of Gen. John S. Roane-he took up the burdens of life and "did what he could," but life with him was not a success as we measure it. At last wearied and tired out with a helpless fight against a cold, hard world, he lies down to a rest that, let us hope, will be as peaceful as his life was hard and cheerless.
To his sorrowing family we extend our heartfelt sympathy, and condolence, and trust in that brighter and better world they will meet husband, father and brother and we our tired and respected friend.
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