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Show ' iPATRIARCH SMITH SUMMONED HOME. i ,. j Dks At His IlMie SsrrouHded By His f - Fiaily. As He Expired He Asked That his K ' Children Be Called, for He Knew - Death Was at Hand. : ? . i VJ John Smith, the fourth pre- I siding patriarch to the Church, j ; and eldest son of Hyrum Smith, ' 'Crossed life's great divide at 11 35 "r?' o'clock Monday night, at his residence, 263 south First West : ' street, with all the members of , his family present at his bedside, Mar and after an illness from pneu- W V t monia lasting only six days. As W.y the veteran realized that death f' was approaching and his end WY was near, he exclaimed, "Call I' ''y . the boys; I'm afraid I will have to give up." U .;j When first taken sick the m !' patriarch's illness was not con- fe ' sidered serious; but Monday a P; change for the worse came, he f weakened rapidly, and at the "' ripe age of 79 he peacefully y passed away. His five surviving $ . " children had been summoned to his bedside early in the evening ' in view of approaching dissolu- h tion. They were; H. F. Smith of jk , . Provo, Mrs. Lucy Davis of Pres- 1 ton, Ida., D. C. Smith of River- f - ton, Joseph Smith of Hoytsville, J and A. F. Smith of Salt Lake. cVsPr C F wilcox the family I' o physician, was in constant at- )atients bedside until the end. ' . 'President Joseph F. Smith visited v If with the patriarch shortly after ?Hf noon and was notified at once after death came. . IT Besides the five children, Patriarch Smith is survived by a fwife, Melissa L. Smith, 27 grandchildren grand-children and 27 great grandchildren. grand-children. Arrangements for the funeral ceremonies have been j!- placed entirely in the hands 'of ww- President Joseph F. Smith, and ife in all probaility the services JaBr will be held in the Tabernacle. |
