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RIX MFMORIAM.Died, in the cightv-sever.th year of her age, at New Orleans, Louisiana A on Friday, November 2fth, 1921, at o'clock A. M., Katharine Stirling Smith, widow of Dr. Charles Magiil Smith. Katharine Stirling was th-j daughter of William Stirling and Ep-n py Hall, who were pioneer settlers of the Parish of St. Mary, Louisiana.The subject of this tribute \va ; f born on July 1, 18.J5, on the Stirling* Plantation, on Bayou Teche, Louisiana, near Franklin* and, at the time of her death, had her residence I sic Franklin, in .he house in which Jvj I had lived for nearly half a century. After the completion of her education. she became the wife of Br. Charles MagiII Smith, a Virginian,‘ who had several years prior thereto settled in Franklin.Dr. Smith, the husband, was a j man of much nobility of character, a kindly, genial and charitable man, an able physician, who devoted his life to the well-being of his fellow men, regardless of rank or station, fre-* rjuently without compensation, and,* in all of his charitable work, he ro-- ecived every assistance and co-operation from Lis wife. During the Ci\il War, when Dr. Smith was surgeont in charge of the hospital at the Bar-i racks, at New Orleans, Mrs. Smith accompanied him and did much to assuage the pain and suffering of the sick and the wounded.! Mrs. Smith was a woman of fine , intellect and remarkable memory, which was perfect to the time of her death. She was a great reader, had a wide fund of information, and she made daily use of the Bible, the hymnal and the ritual of the Episcopal Church. She had no narrow interests. but her sympathies went out to all around her. A lover of books, with a mind alert, with a keen sense of humor, interested in all the happenings of the day, and rich in the memories of the past, Mrs. Smith was truly one of the outstanding characters of her tyne. Besides her children, grandchildren and kinsfolk, there are many frieftds who always found a warm welcome in her hospitable home. Her death is a loss, irreparable to family and friends, but there is also the abiding memory of what she was, and the comfort that comes as they think of all that she is in the Father’s house, on high, where she lives with Christ and has once more those she “loved long since and lost awhile.”Mrs. Smith is survived by three sons: John A. Smith, Archibald M. Smith, both of whom are residents of New Orleans, and Dr. Augustus J. Smith, now living in France. Three sons, Lewris S. Smith, of Dallas, Texas, Charles M. Smith, Jr., James W. Smith, and one daughter, Katharine Stirling Smith, preceded her. Mrs. Smith’s last illness was only for a few weeks, and wras caused by an accident in her own home, which she could easily have recovered from, but for her great age. She bore the pain and suffering of this illness with much fortitude, and when the end came, surrounded by her loved ones, she fell asleep in Jesus as gently as a little child taking its nightly rest.W. J. S.
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The Saint Mary Banner
Franklin, Louisiana, US
Sat, Dec 17, 1921
Page 6
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