Show RICHARD SMITH DIES Richard Smith died at his farm on the tho South Tract Sunday following a sickness of about three or four weeks peeks which began with what is termed The Plague until he was much weakened by it and then pneumonia coming on his death quickly followed Richard Smith was born in Spanish Fork Utah March 22 one fifty-one years ago He c came me to Delta from there therein in the early days das of settlement and established his farm on the So Tract which has become one of the tho very nicest in the valley He Ho brought to Delta its first threshing machine and each year worked at that busi busi- ness Mr III Smith was twice married his first wife being Miss Jemima Boyack v o died at Spanish p Fork ten en years family Their ago agu leaving leaving a large son Richard Smith died last year with flu Mr Ir Smith was married the second second sec sec- ond time eighteen months ago to Mrs Olive Anderson The children surviving surviving surviving sur sur- him are the fruits of his first marriage and are Mrs 1 Marjory Briggs Mrs Bell Briggs Misses Jemima Jemima Jemima Je Je- Je- Je mima Sophia Beatrice and Bessie and son James About a year ago when flu was so bad here twelve persons of the household of at Mr Smiths Smith's were all down at once with flu his son Richard Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard and h his s son in law Maurice Briggs died Mr Smith exhausted himself and finally came down possibly with the dreaded disease or if not with i physical inability to stand up under the strain He never fully recovered So that a n short time ago when ho he came down with with the plague his con condition was weak and he was not in vigor to withstand that disease and as soon as it turned Into pneumonia he was swept away Richard Ichard Smith was a man respected respect respect- ed by all Coming to Delta in its earliest days das his life here was very hard and subject to many In surmounting them he be had won for Cor himself not only a highly high high- ly productive and valuable farm but the good will of all his friends and neighbors The sympathy of all goes to the sorrowing family in their be be- |