, 1906-01-06
DEATH OF EUPHEMiA LERIGo
NAlsMlTH PEACEFUL, WITH
CONSCIOUSNESS PRES.
EMIT UNTIL END.
Was Surrounded by Husband and
Weeping Children, All LIVING
Members of Pioneer Family BEING
Present-came From Scotland and
Married More Than Half Century
Aso-Funeral to Be Held Monday.

win the turn of the night n the
birth OF a new day; with her hand in
that OF her venerable husband. who
had been her loving and constant com.
panion for more than half a century
with her children and grandchildren
Desde her. n with a face radiant
with the certainty of a new life in he
world beyond, beside the Great White
Throne, with angels singins hosan.
mans to their King, Mrs. EuphemIa
Lerigo Naismith gave up the life on
earth and her soul wended its way as
he dove flies to her nest. to the
realms of eternal peace and happiness.
away from the cares and tolls and
suiferings of the human body. 1t was
a death marked with the sweet as.
surance of a life well spent, a duty
well performed to humanity, a love
and tenderness where love and ten.
der touches thrill with the angelic
pressure, consciousness to the end and
a readiness to try the great unknown
beyond the grave. The death of this
woman, whom God honored on earth
that she might shine with the re-
splendent glory of heaven, is a sweet
remembrance to her family, who
watched the last pulsation of a heart
too full of love to remember life.
For some time Mrs. Naismith had
known that the end would come soon.
With the premonition of approaching
dissolution common to those who see
the shadow of the dark angel before 1t
casts its blight upon the vision of 9TH
ers, she had prepared and set hor
house in rder. She told her loved
ones that she was going-that she had
run her course on earth-that she had
given to the world a family of sons
and daughters of which she and the
world could be proud-that she had
lived to a ripe age and was full of
experience, and now that the Hand
uds reckoning to her from across the
way, she was ready and willing to be
guided from the darkness of death to
the Immortality of heaven. Thursday
night, when she and her watchers be-
lieved the end was but a question of
moments, she called them about her
and told them she was willing-she
was ready-she was prepared-to meet
the angel n be guided by him. 1t
was a sweet, sad scene. the Borrowing
husband and children kneeling that
they might catch her last word. There
anne a rally. but it was or short dura-
ton, and with the setting of another
sun, the turning of another night into
a new day, the fitful fever of life was
over, the spirit had wendell its way
and the body of one of Gods noble
women vas but the clay of earth.
Euphemia Lerigo was born in Ayr
shire, Scotland, May IA, 1885, and in
1852 she came with her parents to
this country, where she has since re.
sided. The same year her husband,
William Naismith, came from the same
country, neither having seen the other
until the landing in America. Mr.. Mai
smith settled in Paterson, N. j., where
he was employed in a locomotive
works. He met Miss Lerigo there, her
parents having settled in the same
city, and on the Sth of September,
1854, fifty-one years ago last Septem-
her, they were married. Several years
after their marriage Mr.. and Mrs. Mai
smith came west, stopping at Omaha
and reaching Laramie in the autumn
of 1868, having made this Their
home since that time, except for a
year or two, when they returned to
Omaha, but the absence was not of
long duration, and it may be said that
for nearly two score years they have
have grown up and made it their home
also.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Naismith were
born eight children, four IONS and four
daughters, one son., Thomas, and n
daughter, Margaret, having died in
their youth. The six living are Mrs.
Mary McKinlay Of Council Bluffs, Ia,
William Naismith and James Naismith
of Laramie, George Naismith of Ogden
and Mrs. C. H. Harris and Miss Efiie
Naismith of this city. All were pres
ent when their mother died last night.
The funeral will be held from the
Presbyterian church at 2:30 o'clock
Monday afternoon, with services by
Rev. A. C. Hogbin, the pastor of the
church. The deceased was a membe
of that church, was among the first
members, and her name. with that OF
her husband, was on the first subscrip-
ton for funds to build a church here.
She has been a consistent member ever
snce, sitting under the preachings OF
every pastor of the flock, from the
late DR.. F. l.. Arnold to the present
Rev. Hogbin, and her family have
been with her in every good work for
the church and the community Mrs
lNaismith was one of the first women to
avail themselves of the elective fran
chise in the then new territory and
afterwards state of Wyoming. her