Obituary for Katie Mayes-Smith (1876-1912)
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KATIE MAYES-SMITH


That we shall see the kindly face, hear the cheery voice, and grasp the friendly hand of Katie SMITH no more is profoundly sad. She will be missed in the church where her sympathy and desire for good strengthened her co-laborers. For several years her health has been delicate, and she was not always able to be present in person, but evidenced her willing spirit by sending her family, by tokens, many of love and devotion.

In the neighborhood where she played as a child, in the school-room of her girlhood, in the college of her young womanhood, in the community of her matronhood, all testify of her gentle, pure, unselfish spirit which won friends and kept them. In the home circle she was the obedient, studious, helpful child, mindful of fathers, mother’s, sisters, brothers comforts; as a wife she never faltered in love or duty; as a mother she filled to the measure of her strength all the tenderness of love, all the guiding, teaching and providence of heart, head and hand.

The evidence of the high esteem in which she was held was manifested by the throngs of people who attended funeral services at Linn Knoll, by the many floral offerings, by the beautiful church decorations, symbolic of her purity. Her esteemed friend, Rev. M. D. DUDLEY, of Troy, conducted funeral services. The comforting words of Thessalonians 4:13-18 he read and interpreted for the spiritual welfare and solace of the bereaved. Bro. DUDLEY’S sermons are always delightful to lovers of the Holy Word and these two representative families, MAYES and SMITH, with their numerous relatives and friends, were edified and comforted by his discourse.

The biographical notes of our dear departed are these: Born August 2, 1876, united with the Christian church while at William Wood College, Fulton, in 1894; married to J. S. SMITH April 19, 1896; departed this life September 28, 1912; parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. MAYES; two brothers, Harry T. MAYES, of near Linn Knoll, and Dr. J. S. MAYES, of Silex; one sister, Mrs. Ross CANNON, of Elsberry; five children, Claudine, Lucile, R. T., Frances, Taylor, these loved ones with hosts of relatives and friends mourn her loss and honor her memory.

In the snowy casket beside her is her infant son. All that is mortal of them sleep in the beautiful Oak Ridge cemetery beneath masses of flowers. Thank God for immortality.

File submitted to HERITAGE PAGES of LINCOLN COUNTY, MISSOURI by Sandie Eisenbath, 25 August, 2003.

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