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Show oo NONAGENARIAN DIES WHILE CUTTING TEETH Salt Lako. March IS. M- P. Smith -son, a former Confederate soldier who fought under the leadership or ''Fighting ''Fight-ing Joe" Wheeler during the war of the rebellion, and whoso father was an officer in the Revolutionary war, j died at his homo in MHford early ye3-l ye3-l terday at the advanced age of ninety-seven ninety-seven years. At the time of his death Mr. Smltuson was the oldest living citizen in Beaver county. Tho immediate cause of the aged man's denth was tho- inability of his heart to properly perform its functions, func-tions, but the real reason is one of the rarest cases In medical history, as ills death was due to the cutting of teeth which had not made their appearance ap-pearance at tho proper time earlier in life. The symptoms of Mr, Smith-aou's Smith-aou's Illness were Identical with thoBO of a child cutting its first sot of teeth. The strain of tho teetH-cuttini; was too great for the aged heart to withstand. Yesterday afternoon the body was brought to this city by the children of the deceased for funoral services and burial. The funeral will be held from , the undertaking- parlors of S. M. Taylor Tay-lor this afternoon at 2 o'clock under the auspices of the Second Church of Christ, ScIentlsL Interment will be in I ML Olivet cemetery; Mr. Smithson was qne of tho early I pioneers, coming here late In the '60s from Mississippi, his; birthplace. He ! leaves descendants to, the fifth gen- ' eration. The children who survive him arc J. R. Smithson, Dan W Smiht- son, Charles M Smithson, Katherinc Smithson and Mrs. Susan Peake of JMilford; Mrs. B. E. Palmer of Taco- ma, Wash ; Mrs. James S. Acker, Prcscott, Ariz , Mrs. James F Mul- doon, Modena, and Jfrs. Francis Suggs, Mobile, Ala. "" |