Smyrna times., 1904-12-14
MRS. JENNIE CARL SMITHERs PRICE.
Passed Away Early Thursday Morning After
Short lllness-Sketch of Her Useful Life
and of Her Devotion to the W. c. T.U.

Lewis nj. Price of this town passed to
her eternal rest. Her death, which
was an. unusually sad one, was caused
, by an acute attack of Bright's Dis
ease and has robbed a home of a de-
voted wife and mother and the com
munity of one of Smyrna's most estim-
able women. Mrs. Price was a woman
whose sphere of usefulness went be-
yond the bounds of her home and gave
to church and society the benefit of
devoted service and the influence of
life that was enobling and always for
the highest good. Endowed with rare
executive ability, gifted with the power
of speech and eloquence that made her
at home on the rostrum as we'll as in
social circles and having those refined
womanly qualities that endeared her
to all, she gave life of consecrated
service that has been benedictioI not
only to her home and her large circle
of friends but to the various societies
of which she was an active member.
Possibly no other work outside of her
home and church has been nearer and
dearer to her heart than that of the
WOman's Christian Temperance Union
for which she gave much of her time
and talents. AS one of her friends has
aptly put it: ''She was to the
Delaware W. G. T. U. what Frances
Willard was to the National W.
G. I. T." She has held a num-
Der of offices in the gift of the
local and Kent County Union and for
three years from October 1901 to last
October when she was obliged to
tender her resignation, she was the re-
cordlng secretary of the State W. 9.
L. U. and was one of the most able and
efficient secretaries the state union has
ever had. During the last session OF
the Legislature she appeared before
that body with delegation in the in
terest of the Local Option movement
and made one of the most remarkable
addresses of the day. On another oc-
caslon she made stirring address be-
fore the Methodist Preachers
Association in Wilmington. She was
also an active member of the
Twentieth Century Club of Smyrna
and was the popular president of
the club when Smyrna entertained
the State Federation of WOmens Clubs
and her address of welcome on that oc-
casion remains to this day one of the
brightest gems of Smyrna's hospi-
tality.
Sketch of the Interesting and Useful Life.
The deceased was the oldest child
and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Smithers of thie town and was born on
farm near Dover on January the Goth.
1861. When but few years old she
moved with her parents to Smyrna
where she has resided ever since. She
was educated at the old Smyrna Sem
mary and upon completing her course
( OF study matriculated at the Pittsburg
Female College, Pittsburg, Pa. Dur
ing the great revival under the pastor
ate of Rev.NEnoch Stubbs in 1877 she
was converted and joined Asbury NJ.
Z. Church and during the rest of her
life she was a faithful and consistent
member. For many years previous to
her marriage she was the Sunday
School organist. In 1885, January the
9TH, she was united in marriage to Mr..
Lewis NJ. Price a prominent business
man and manufacturer of this town
and has made him devoted and COM
panionable wife. To her children she
was an ideal mother ever watchful of
their interest, comfort and training.
Outside of the home circle she
gave more or less attention to
those societies which have for
their object the uplifting of hu-
manity. She was a member of the W.
G. T. u, the Womans Foreign Mis-.
sionary Society, the Womans Home
Missionary Society, the Benevolent
Society, the Asbury M. E. Mite Soc
iety, the Epworth League of Asbury
M. E. Church. and the Twentieth
Century Club She is survived by
her husband and four children: Lewis
Cairl, Warner Wilds, Katherine Edna
and Jennie Louise.
Funeral Services at Her Late Residence.
Funeral services were held at her
late residence on Main street Satur-
day afternoon at one O'Clock and inter-
ment took place at Odd Fellows Gene
terry. As the funeral was private, only
the relatives and near friends were in
attendance. The services were in
charge of her pastor Rev. Robert Watt
d. d. of Asbury M. E. Church as
sisted by Rev. T. E. Martindale of
Elkton, Md, and the Rev. Vaughan
S. Collins of Port DEPOSIT, Md. The