Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
DEATH OF MRS. ]. M. SMITH.

| Mrs. Judson NJ Smith. of this city,
died IN Mt. Clemens, Mich, at Hotel
Fenton. on Saturday, May 18th, 1907, at
| II 40 a. m.
| On Friday, April Goth, Mrs Smith,
accompanied by her daughter, Mrs.
Charles j Winton, departed for Mt.
| Clemens, hoping that the baths. and
treatments there might drive away the
slight twinges of rheumatism which had
| been affecting her She had not been
in robust health for number of years,
but was active in mind and body for
one of her advanced years. She took
the trip thinking the change would
1 rest and recuperate her and withthe
exception of the trouble mentioned, was
in her usual health. Letters received
at home stated that while in Chicago,
Mrs. Smith sustained injuries from a
severe fall, caused by mis-step when
coming out of an elevator. The results
were not apparent at the time, but sew
ere, days later she experienced much
pal, snd was confined to her rooms. Re
covering from this she continued along
/ for some time, able TO be about as usual.
One week ago she was taken i'll with an
attack of gastritis. Her condition be-
came such as TO alarm her daughter, and
| the latter's letters were filled with
words of anxiety On Tuesday, last Mr..
Winton started for New York state to
visit his mother, but upon reaching Al
bany he was called to Mt Clemens.
| He found Mrs. Smiths condition very
serious, and steadily growing worse.
On Friday evening the complications
of her sickness brought on commissions,
and Mr.. Winton teiegraphed that the
end seemed close at hand, and to pre-
pare Mr.. Smith, who had remained at
home, for the great afiiiction which he
would soon be called on to bear. Dur
ing the latter part of that night and on
Saturday morning there was an i'm
provement in her condition, but re-
turn of the commissions FASTENED the
end, which came at the time above
mentioned.
The announcement of Mrs Smiths
death reached here at two o'clock Sat
urday afternoon and was great shock
TO the community and a source of very
deep sorrow to all who knew her. The
remains arrived in the city on Monday
morning. accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
lC. j Winton and their son, Charles,
and were met at the ST. Paul depot by a
large number of sorrowing relatives
and friends, and were taken to the fam
lily residence on Grant street.
Mrs. Smith was born in Elizabeth.
town, province of Ontario, Can, on the
name nsa a' Vas 81 Th fhe Delight Booth The
dayso her youth and young woman
hood were spent in BrockviIle, Ont. at
day of Sept, 1868, she was united in
marriage to .Dudson M. Smith, and
nearly fifty years of happy welded life
was theirs. On the 18th of Sept, 1908,
they would have been able to celebrate
their golden wedding.
| A strange coincidence was the fact
| that Mrs Smith went to Mt. Clemens
forty nine years ago as bride, where
Mr.. Smith at that time was building
the Grand Trunk railroad. and the
house which they occupied adjoined
the hotel in which she passed away.
James Brennan, foreman on that work
and on the Wisconsin Valley Il. X.
here, is living in Mt. Clemens and AS
sisted ia every way in Mrs. Smiths
final illness and death.
Mr.. Smith was heavily engaged in
railroad building and they lived in var
ious places before coming to Wausau-
Mt. Clemens, Nashville, Detroit, Brock
vile, and other places where Mr.. Smith
had contracts for extensive work.
In the fall of 1874, Mr.. Smith came to
Wisconsin to build the Wisconsin Val
ley railroad from Knowlton to Wausau.
This he completed in sixty days, com
mencing in August and finishing in
October, so that the line was fully
equipped and opened for traffic in the
early part of November. Mr. Smith
was pleased with Marathon county, its
soil and vast resources and concluded
to make this his home. He negotiated