A STRICKEN FAMILY.
TWO DEATHS WITHIN A WEEK
The Funeral of Mrs. Grace Smith Shreve To Be Held To-morrow.
The remains of Mrs. Grace Smith Shreve, who died Saturday, will be buried to-morrow afternoon in the family lot at Cave Hill cemetery. The funeral will be held from the residence, 1221 Fourth avenue, at 2:30 o'clock to-morrow afternoon, and the pall-bearers will be: Messrs. Andrew Cowan, Marc Mundy, James M. Fetter, George G. Brown, George Forman, William P. Booker, Ed Bowen, Thomas C. Timberlake, John E. Norris and Pack Thomas.
The funeral will be conducted by the Rev. Drs. Kerfoot, Whitsitt and Pickard, the deceased having been a constant member of the Baptist church. Mrs. Shreve was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Hiram Smith, two of Louisville's oldest and most respected citizens. Had she lived but a few days longer, she would have celebrated the twenty-sixth anniversary of her wedding. She leaves a husband and two children, Hiram Smith and Corinna Brashear. Her mother, Mrs. Hiram Smith, preceded her to the grave but a few days, having been buried in Bowling Green, Ky., last Wednesday, by the side of her husband, at the advanced age of eighty-six. Both decedents were the victims of pneumonia, Mrs. Shreve having contracted it while in the discharge of her duties to her mother.
While Mrs. Smith was unconscious for the last two days of her illness, and did not notice the absence of her daughter, Mrs. Shreve was in full possession of her senses to the last, and, knowing full well she could not recover, called her husband and children to her bedside, and, addressing some remark to each, bade them goodbye, and asked them to meet her in the great beyond.
The deceased was in the prime of life, being but forty-three years old and was the joy of the little household, which has been deprived of two of its members in one week. The daughter of Mrs. Shreve, Miss Corinna, had just gone South, visiting some relatives when she was called home on this sad errand. Carriages will be at the residence Tuesday to convey any friends of the family to the cemetery.
The Courier-Journal, 30 Mar 1896 ·Page 8
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MRS. W. HIRAM SMITH DEAD.
Her Remains Will Be Taken To Bowling Green For Interment.
Mrs. W. Hiram Smith, eighty-six years of age, died last night at her residence, 1221 Fourth avenue, of double pneumonia. She had been ill only since yesterday a week ago, when she was attacked by the grip, which rapidly developed into the malady from which she died. Since Saturday she had been unconscious and remained in that condition until the end. The deceased was Miss Bettie Garnett and was born January 6, 1810, at Franklin county, La. The family from which she descended was one of the oldest and most prominent in that State. A daughter, Mrs. R. S. Shreve, who resides in the same house in which the death occurred, is the only surviving child. Mrs. Shreve is also dangerously ill with pneumonia, and for this reason the remains of Mrs. Smith can be viewed by the friends and relatives of the deceased only this afternoon. To-morrow morning at 8 o'clock the remains will be sent to Bowling Green, where they will be interred by the side of the husband of the deceased, who has been dead a number of years.
The Courier-Journal, 24 Mar 1896 ·Page 6
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