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Lexington Weekly Intelligencer, April 24, 1897
IN MEMORIAM
To the Editor of the Intelligencer
Died in Newkirk, Oklahoma, April 15, 1897, of blood poison, Mr. John T. Smith, aged 47 years.
I come as a friend to drop a flower on the grave of John T. Smith. I have known him from his early childhood and have been intimately associated with him for years. As a boy he was always polite, obliging and the most cheerful boy I ever knew. As he grew to manhood he retained his merry good nature and no cloud obscured his horizon for more than a few moments at a time. He was ever ready to laugh at his own troubles and tried to encourage others to do likewise. If John ever had a human enemy I have not heart of that fact. As a workman he was one who "need not be ashamed." He began his career as a printer by carrying water and sweeping out the "Union" office, then owned by H.K. Davis. When the "Caucasian" was started John was the first "cub." He rapidly developed into a first-class compositor and in a short time became an "all-round" printer, able to do anything about a printing office. He was connected with one or two newspaper ventures in Lexington and with one or two in St. Louis. If I am not mistaken he helped to start the "Star-Sayings" and remained with it till it was on a firm footing. But his life-history is not my object now. I have not the time nor have you the space to review the leading events of his active life. As a fellow-workman I want to pay this slight tribute to his memory. What a lesson there is in his life and in his death. Twelve months ago he was here in Lexington on a business trip and was the same robust, jolly John Smith as of yore and was the personification of health. Today he sleeps in Machpelah, awaiting the sounding of the trumpet, when the dead shall sleep no more. Social, generous old friend we bid you good-bye. Soon we shall also sleep in Machpelah and when the grave gives up its dead perchance we may know each other and perchance we may together take flight from earth to our eternal home.
W.G.M.
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Lexington Weekly Intelligencer, April 24, 1897
IN MEMORIAM
To the Editor of the Intelligencer
Died in Newkirk, Oklahoma, April 15, 1897, of blood poison, Mr. John T. Smith, aged 47 years.
I come as a friend to drop a flower on the grave of John T. Smith. I have known him from his early childhood and have been intimately associated with him for years. As a boy he was always polite, obliging and the most cheerful boy I ever knew. As he grew to manhood he retained his merry good nature and no cloud obscured his horizon for more than a few moments at a time. He was ever ready to laugh at his own troubles and tried to encourage others to do likewise. If John ever had a human enemy I have not heart of that fact. As a workman he was one who "need not be ashamed." He began his career as a printer by carrying water and sweeping out the "Union" office, then owned by H.K. Davis. When the "Caucasian" was started John was the first "cub." He rapidly developed into a first-class compositor and in a short time became an "all-round" printer, able to do anything about a printing office. He was connected with one or two newspaper ventures in Lexington and with one or two in St. Louis. If I am not mistaken he helped to start the "Star-Sayings" and remained with it till it was on a firm footing. But his life-history is not my object now. I have not the time nor have you the space to review the leading events of his active life. As a fellow-workman I want to pay this slight tribute to his memory. What a lesson there is in his life and in his death. Twelve months ago he was here in Lexington on a business trip and was the same robust, jolly John Smith as of yore and was the personification of health. Today he sleeps in Machpelah, awaiting the sounding of the trumpet, when the dead shall sleep no more. Social, generous old friend we bid you good-bye. Soon we shall also sleep in Machpelah and when the grave gives up its dead perchance we may know each other and perchance we may together take flight from earth to our eternal home.
W.G.M.
Info courtesy of contrib. # 47526185
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