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Lexington Intelligencer, October 08, 1887

THE TOMB

Died--In this city, October 1, of pyaemia, Harrison Smith, Esq., aged 73 years.

Mr. Smith was an old and highly respected citizen of Lexington. He was born in Casey county, Kentucky, March 4, 1814, and removed to Monroe county, Missouri, early in the forties where in 1843, he married the wife who survives him, Miss Martha Jane Groves, a sister of David Groves, Esq., of this county. Beside his wife Mr. Smith leaves behind to mourn his loss, six children--William H., John T., David M., Benjamin F., Henry H., and Annie B., the wife of Mr. C.D. Brammel.

Mr. Smith was a man of clear, sound sense, successful in business and honored by his fellow citizens with their confidence as well as esteem. He was retiring in his disposition, modest, ye firm, and conscientious in all of his acts, whether public or private. During the war he was a Union man, but not of that class that desired himself to harm, or to bring harm upon his neighbors through others. In the troubles of the southern people here when Federal power controlled he was always the friend and protector of the weak and defenseless. For many years Mr. Smith was a magistrate, and in his hands the scales of justice were ever truly poised, though out of his abundant charity justice might frequently be tempered with mercy.

He was a faithful husband, an indulgent father and a king and considerate neighbor. More than that, he was a Christian man, full of meekness and charity, depending not upon himself, but upon the blood of Christ for his salvation. In the trials of this life, in the sick chamber or elsewhere, his work of admonition or of consolation was drawn from the Fountain of Life, and it was ever the right word. After all, what more can we say of him than that he was a good man and a Christian. He has gone to his reward. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."

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