Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-05-19

Miss L aura B. Hanse returned Sat
urday from Webster where she spent a
week with her brother, Edwin, and
sister, Anna.
Auctioneer and Mrs. Baird drove
over from Aberdeen Sunday and
remained until Monday afternoon as
guests at the Guthrie home.
Henry Henrichs, of Ellsworth, MINI.
who has been here the past two weeks
at the deathbed of his sister, Mrs.
Albert Smeins, and Mrs. Margaret
Deiken and husband who arrived from
Sioux Falls Saturday to attend the
funeral of her only sister, departed
Monday evening for their respective
homes.
Pennington, Homer, Union and And
over have been called upon to suffer
the loss of our golden link of friend
ship with our oldest pioneer, Mrs.
Mary E. Knight, whose obituary
appeared in last weeks Reporter and
Farmer. Grandma" as she was most
effection: ely known, endeared herself
to all during those long ago days
remembered so well by early settlers.
Though three score and ten and four
teen-over "a years-had numbered
her days she was lady of remarkable
intellect, and she retained those facul-
ties until the last. Regardless Of the
age she was permitted to attain her
summons came as a shock and heavy
sorrow to relatives and friends. Last
Sept amber she gave up her old home
and went with her younger daughter
and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. H. E.
Kibler, to their new home in st. Croix
Falls, Wis, where she passed away
April 20, 1910. Mr.. and Mrs. KILLER
and her other daughter, Mrs. J. T.
Goodwin, of Webster, who was at her
bedside, accompanied the remains of
the dear old lady to Pierpont where
she was laid to rest by hei companion
who preceded her in Feb. 1907. Her
older son, Julian Knight, of DaMar,
Missouri, and j. T. Goodwin. of Web
ster, and Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Ford, of
Aberdeen, besides many old friends
were in attendance at the funeral.
Grandma Knight" received the honor
the past two years of having bestowed
upon her the prize given by the
Day County association at their annual
reunion for the oldest old settler pre-
sent. She has left her place for
another to fill this fall. We all shall
deeply miss her and we mourn her loss
with her relatives.
death turks in every flower"
Thus it has been in the home of Albert
Smeins whose companion was taken
from him Thursday, May 5. 1910, at
7:30 p. m, after an illness of seven
weeks with appendicitis and compli-
cations. Mrs. Smeins formerly Miss
Grace Anna Henrichs, was born in
Germany, Nov. Is, 1851. In 1875 she
was united in marriage to Albert
Smeins, and in 1894 she crossed the
ocean with her family and located in
Illinois. From there they moved to
Iowa and thence to Andover, South
Dakota, where her husband purchased
the Dunton farm in Pennington. With
bright prospects before them in their
declining years, death crushed their all.
Two children at home, of Is and q
summers, Miss Bertha and Frank, and
Henry Smeins and Mrs. Minnie Steffen
of Pennington, and John and Will
Smeins and Mrs. G. w. Callison, of
Andover, are left to grieve the loss of
their best friend. Deceased is the
second oldest of family of four sur
viving children, a sister near Sioux
Falls, brother in Ellsworth, Mimi.
and an invalid brother in German
Valley, Ill. The funeral services were
held at the Pennington church Sunday,
Mothers Day." with sacred memory
of the anniversary, conducted by Rev.
E. c. H. Peithmann, of Webster, and
all that was mortal of kind mother
who was ever ready to minister at the
bedside of the sick was laid to rest in
the Andover cemetery by a little
grandchild who was called to it's
Heavenly Father last summer. Not
only are we losing our old settlers, one
by one, but there are also chairs being
left vacant in the homes of our new
friends. Our sympathy goes out to the
hnnrtc that hral.nr, .I.itL