Mrs. Perry Smith

Mrs. Perry Smith Dead. 

Mrs. Jennie Smith, widow of the late Perry Smith of Paris, died in a Kansas City hospital Monday from the results of a fall, in which on hip was broken, sustained at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. W. McAllister, in that city the Monday previous.  The remains were buried at Paris Wednesday afternoon with funeral services by Rev. Shively at the Christian church, of which she had been a devoted member for over 50 years.  Mrs. Smith was a native of Illinois, her maiden name being Wallace, and she and her husband came to Paris in the decade following the Civil War, living here until the latter’s death some 7 years ago.  Two devoted and dutiful daughters, Mrs. McAllister and Miss Gertrude Smith survive her.  She was 76 years old at the time of her death, and during her long life in Paris no woman gave herself more freely in good deeds or was more widely loved.  To her motherliness and her kindness she united an abundant humor, merriment ran like silver thread through her life, and to those of us who were young in the years that have sped so swiftly by the memory of her home and the hospitality of its mistress will ever be a happy and a beautiful memory.  The sympathies of the community of which she was so long a beloved member, are with the daughters in their bereavement. 


Source: Paris Mercury dated October 29, 1926, submitted by Vickie Stinson from the newspaper article collection of her grandmother, Bess Kipper Atterbury.