Smyrna times., 1909-06-09
DEATH RECORD OF THE WEEK
David S. Wilds of Kenton a Prominent
Farmer Dies Suddenly of a Heart
Attack Late Sunday Night.


died suddenly Sunday night from an
heart attack. He had been attending
to his usual duties around the farm
and later in the evening he complain
ed of feeling badly. Shortly after
he suffered a heart attack and was
rendered unconscious and died about
eleven O'Clock. The deceased had
been in failing health for sometime.
The death of David S, -Wilds removes
one of the most prominent farmers of
KentOn Hundred. He was the oldest
son of eight children of James D.
and Lydia E. (Spruance) Wilds and
was born near Kenton near the farm
on which he died, on February II,
1882. After an education he became
superintendent of his fathers farm
which he purchased upon his fathers
death and has continued the vocation
of farming ever since. In politics
he was first Whig and then a Dem
ocrat. He was a member of the Kent
County Levy Court during the sessions
of 1864, IA. and '78 and rendered his
district good service. In the fall of
1896 he was nominated on the Demo-
cratic ticket for sheriff but was de-
feated. The deceased married on
February 27, 1855, Miss Anna Maria
Downs, daughter of Lodeman and
Anna (Carrow) Downs who survives
him with seven children as follows.
Rev. John S. Wilds of Gouverneur,
N. Y, Frank Wilds OF Crumpton,
Md, Elra MRS. Thomas j. Roe),
Laura (Mrs. Charles P. Bailey, May
(Mrs. John A. Walls) j. Herman and
Wilbur. One brother, J. Frank
Wilds of Dover, and one sister, Mrs.
Samuel Hutchinson of Wilmington,
also survive him. Funeral services
will take place this afternoon at two
O'Clock and interment will be made
in the family burying ground at
Brynzion Baptist Cemetery.
W. Scott Roberts, Centerville, Dead.
Col. William Scott Roberts a vet
eran newspaper man and a prominent
citizen died at his home in Centreville
yesterday morning of cirrhosis of the
liver, after a lingering illness aged
II years. He has been in declining
health for a>year or more past. Col
onel Roberts was reared on his faith
er's farm until the fall of 1851, when
he entered the Maryland Military
Academy at Oxford, whence he was
graduated in the spring of 1859. In
December of that year he went to
Frederick, where he took up the
study of law and in 1862 he was ad-
mitted to the bar. He began practice
in Westminster, Carroll county. Dur
ing his residence in Carroll county he
edited and published the Western
Maryland Democrat now the West
minister Advocate. In May. 1864, he
returned to his native county, where
he has since resided. In 1875 he
established the Centreville Record,
of which he was the head until July
L, 1906, when he retired and sold out
to the present owner, James T. Bright,
of the local bar. Colonel Roberts
was journalist of ability who handled
with mastery skill the questions of
public interest presenting them in a
fair, unprejudiced manner. His paper
was one of the leading journals on
the Eastern Shore. In 1872 Colonel
Roberts married Miss Eliaz J. Dun
bracco who survivs him.
Abraham Sharp Former Smyrnian Dead
Abraham Sharp, born in Smyrna in
1842, died in Baltimore on Friday
froEn Bright's disease. Mr.. Sharp
went to Baltimore fifty years ago.
He was graduate of Dickinson Col
lege, began the practice of law in
Baltimore in 1870 and continued until
few years ago when illness pre-
vented. He is survived by a widow
and three children, Ernest Sharp of
Plainfeld, N. j., Mrs. Robert P.
Griffin of Riverhead, L. L., and Stan
ley Sharp of Baltimore. The funeral
took place Monday.
James p. Wallace Dies in Wilmingto n
James P. Wallace, a former Smyr-
nian, died in Wilmington Sunday after
lingering illness. He was son of
Mrs. Jenifer S. Taylor of this town
and a brother of Joseph Wallace.
Funeral services were held at his late
residence, 2O7 East Fifth. street in
Wilmington last evening and the re-
mains were brought to Smyrna on the
noon train to-day and inferred in
Glenwood Cemetery.
Th;rt,, A,4o. 60 pa i, 4Lo D.