Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-11-23
DEATH OF MAI. SMITH.


on Sleep. Funeral Tomorrow
morning From the Home.
Mondays Argns.
| Again the silent messenger of
death has been in our midst and has
summqned away to the land of the
great beyond one of Goldsboro's
Oldest and best citizens.
IL Just a little while before the birth
Of the beautiful Sunday of yesterday,
the of MA Wiley Hopton Smith
took its flight from the scenes of
earth to that land to which the mil
lions of every land have been con-
tipuously marching for six thousand
years.
Justat five minutes after the clock
[had struck the hour Of four, on Sun
1day morning, November 18Th, 1905,
Major Wiley Hopton Saith cIed.
His death was not p surprise, fo'
he had been an invalid Inr nnany
months, but throughout the ci+y
many were the regrets spoken by all
ieiasses of people, and gariauds OF
tfkind words entWine about his mem
DRY.
Mai. Smith was born in Wayne
oar,o4xy n Iikfln no>1.n than a fty nine
years ago.. When nothing but a boy
he became a Confederate soldier, and
when the war closed, like thousands
of others, deprived the advantages
of a college education, he went to
work, with faith in himselfand faith
in his people.
H and Mr.. Geo. d. Green, now
of Wilson, al old Goldsboro boy,
early in the 70's, went intothe hard
ware business in this city under the
firm name of Smith, Palmer & Co,
subsequently Maj. Smith engaged iu
the grocery business for some time,
but, selling out, he again went into
the hardware business, establishing
with Mr.. w. L. Yelverton the we'll.
known and successful firm of Smith
& Yelverton Of this city, of which
firm Maj. Smith was a partner to the
day CT his death.
After being in the hardware bust
, ness for sometime, Mai. Smith, de
} string to benefit his home town, con
! ceived the idea Of establishing a faC
: tory for the manufacture of agricui
: tural implements, interested a mum
/ Der of our citizens, and the Wayn,
Agricultural Works were butt.
b For time, the prospects wer
t gIooIuy, and the factory yielded n
dividends. But the faith of Ma
Smith never wavered, and with
knowledge OF tie business, energ
is which knew no limit, ard with VOL
derful business sagacity, he WeI
=: right on until the Wayne Agricu
: tural works became a splendid piec
l. of property, paying its stoch-holGel
i and giving employment to a larg
y number Of people, thereby bench
ting the entire community. Ma
Smith was Pre- >ident ofthese work
which are now second, in volume
= business, to meme in the South.
,s Maj. Smith was a brave confede
ate soldier, loved the cause of til
o South, aud for a lumber of years L
Is has been unanimously chosen /,
commarder OF Vhomss Bnttin Cam
of Confederate Veterns, having bee
reelected at their meeting ia Angus
For four years he was a director
nj the Atlantic & North Carolina Raj
10 road Company, under Gov. AycocE
b and held commissions under sever:
previous Governors, and was
+ regularly commissioned officer in til
a States National Guard.
d Mai. Smith was twice married
q His first wife was Miss Mary Eliza
. beth Macarthur, who Was the motht
of all his children, and bis secon
= wife was Miss Jennie Wilson, WI
y surviv YES him. Maj, Smith leaves fol
a children Mrs. B. H, Griffin, Mi,
/ Daisy Smith aud Messrs WIllial
aud Graves Smith.
|. He was a good citizen, a sacces
full business man, a kind neighbor,
good husband and father. Many Wi
e miss him, for he loved the peop
i and delighted to serve them III al
:. way ia his power.
Maj. Smith loved life. He love
l. his friends, and delighted in h
a family. To him life had a thousar
q roses, for every thorn, and he love
" to linger on life and its beauties, al
his presence carried sunshine Wher
n ever he went. But when he realize
IS that the cold finger of death w
= ready to place It's mark upon b
forehead, he did not shudder n
shrink, but with constant faith loo
~ ed unto Him Who says, Come un
" me, I am thy God, I will upho
D. thee with the right had of 10
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