John Smith
Marriages
Matilda Wall - 1871
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - November 11, 1921
DEATH OF JOHN SMITH .
Another Seventy-Niner of Colorado was called to his last reward last Thursday , November 3 . 1921 , when John Smith passed quietly to the Great Beyond after a lingering illness of three or four years at his home in Red Cliff . The deceased was born in Southern Norway in 1843 , and was married to Matilda Wall in 1871 , who preceded him in death many years ago . With his wife he came to America and Colorado in 1871, and the following year was attracted to Red Cliff : by the discovery of ore on Battle mountain, and had been a resident of
that district since until the day of his death . He followed mining during the en tire time of his residence in this country with the varying success of the prospector , working in the mines up to the time that the infirmitieaof old _asre prevented his longer following the strenuous labor of Ins occupation . For the past three or four years he had been gradually failing : and the past few months left him bedfast and entirely helpless . lie is survived by three daughters , Mrs . Olive Helm of Denver , Mrs . Minnie Dumas of Oilman and Mrs . Anna Martin of Red Cliff , and a brother-in-law, E. Wall of Denver .
The funeral services were conducted from the Graham mortuary in Red Cliff last Sunday by the Rev J.L. Gaither, pastor of the M. E . church in Eagle , the remains being followed to their last resting place in Evergreen cemetery by a large concourse of sorrowing friends .
