Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-09-02
Death Of Mr.. Roger R. Smith.

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home on upper Church street last
Sunday night at l o'clock. While
the community was shocked and
distressed when the announcement
of Mr.. Smiths death was made
Monday morning. the end was not
unexpected.
For the past eighteen months
Mr.. Smith has been sufferer from
angina pectoris. Since the middle
of last May his condition was so
critical that he was unable to leave
his home. Sunday evening Mr..
Smith was apparently better than
usual. He received many friends
who dropped in to call Sunday
night at 8 o'clock he retired in a
ve'y cheerful mood. About mid
night he was awakened by a severe
pain In his arm. The usual s,imu-
lantS did not relieve him. and i'm a
short time he gradually grew worse.
In half hour he began To sink
and he went to his eternal sleep as
peacefully and quietly as child
drops off to slumbcr in its mn,hrr's
arms.
For over sixty years MIR. Smith
had been a familiar figure i'm Ber-
ryville. He was born in Berry
vile September lSth, 1929. lie
was the eldest son of the late
Treadwell Smith and his second
wife, Ann Humphreys. With the
exception Of occasional visits to
friends and relatives away. Mr..
Smith has spent his entire life of
four-score years in this community
where he was born.
His family has been one prom
inently identified with this section
for century and 4 quarter. His
grandfather, Jonathan Smith. was
pioneer citizen of Battletown.
Berryville's colonial appellation.
given TO it 10y Gen. Daniel Morgan,
of Saratoga fame, during his young
days here. UponJonathan Smiths
emigration To Kentucky, about the
year 1900, Treadwell Smith, the
youngest son, and father of Mr..
Roger Smith, remained in Berry
vile, and during the eighty odd
years he spent in this cummunity
he accumulated a considerable for
tune.
The ancestors of Mr.. Smith en-
joyed long lives. His grandfather
lived TO be 90 years old. and when
he was in his seventies he was
accustomed to ride horseback from
Bowling Green, KY, to Berryville
to visit his son here. Mr.. Tread
well Smith lived to be 81 years old
and many of his children, with the
exception of Jonathan Smith, ii,
the father of Capt. J. Rice Smith,
of Richmond, and Mrs. Sarah j.
Crown, of Berryville, lived far
pastthe three score years of allotted
time.
When a young man Mr.. Smith
married his cousin, Elizabeth Rice,
of jefferson county, Va, (now
West Nirginis). Two children.
who died in infancy, were born to
them.
Before the civil war Mr.. Roger
Smith resided on the old Smith
farm, just east of Berryville, which
is now owned by his nephew, Mr..
Black burn Smith, well known
lawyer of this place. After the
war he opened mercantile busi-
ness here, and in the eighties he
retired from business and has led
a retired life since.
Mr.. Smith was leading member
and vestryman of Grace Episcopal
Church. For over thirty years he
had been treasurer of that church;
for a score Of years he was treas
urer of Berryville. He has been
a member of the vestry of Grace
Church for oyer half century.
Another remarkable fact con-
nected with the Smith family is
that it has furnished soldiers for
every important war this country
has ever waged. In the Revolu-
tionary War Jonathan Smith en-
listed when but sixteen years old.
Treadwell Smith fought in the war
of 1912 and the Mexican War.
Charles III. Smith, a brother OF
Roger Il. Smith, who died about
four years ago, and Capt. j. Rice
Smith, fought under the Stars and
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