Show BREAKS HIS NECK samuel smith of pal falls Is four and a half feet and is instantly killed A gloom was cast over Cen centreville treville and the neighboring towns last friday morning when the sad news spread that samuel smith the nurseryman se had met with an accident that resulted in his death he and one of his sons were shingling a summer stands just back of the old house and were standing on a scaffold supported by the orl ordinary ilary knee brackets used by carpenters when it gave way and the deceased being a cripple was unable to gather himself and fell to the ground striking the back of his neck on oil a plank or a two by four he tried to speak but could not be understood death ensued almost instantaneously it should be stated that the scaffold was only about four and one half feet high from the ground the following is from a letter written us by the county coroner john wayman in speaking of the appearance of the neck of the deceased be says we suppose sup he must mus have broken it as there was but a very slight cut th rought the skin and his death was so sudden he be never uttered a word except oh I 1 when following I 1 a groan or two and then expired he was still warm when I 1 arrived the evidence showed that it was not necessary to hold an inquest so the family and friends took charge of the body the people of Cen centreville treville deeply sympathize with the bereaved family ile he was a man of sterling worth in a community samuel was the son of john and sarah smith and was born in it a small town in essex england the of april 1833 1831 the schooling he was favored with was obtained in the town of his dirth birth and at the age of fourteen lie he commenced working at the sho shoemaker omAker trade in the adjoining town of danville where his apprenticeship prentices bip lasted th rought a period of seven years in fifty one he was baptized into the church by elder charles penrose six six years later he started for utah stopping in boston and vicinity about f four our years arrived in utah in 1861 francklyn was the name of the town where he made his first home in sixty two he be married rosetta livermore liermore and from that time to the spring of 1881 the family resided in logan keeping a furniture store six years experience as agent for the geneva nursery company with the knowledge know lege he had previously gained from experimenting with trees convinced him that a nursery could be started ard and successfully run in this country cou atry s so in the spring of 1881 he begun his labors in the davis county nursery which has gained a territorial reputation for good trees brother smith was always deeply interest edin vocal and in instrumental music and aryed to encourage it b by y joining the choirs and bands of the different towns that it was his lot to reside in ile he leaves two wives eight SOW sons five daughters eight grandchildren and the public to mourn his loss |