Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-04-20
DEATH OF MRS, SMITH
Wife Of Samuel w Smith,
A Sufferer From Paralysis
for Seventeen Months,
Passed Away Last Thurs
day Aged Fifty-One Years.

The death of Mrs. Samuel
IN. Smith occurred Thursday,
April Il, at 300 O'Clock. aged
fftv-Qne years.
For the past seventeen months,
or SINCE December, 1908, Mrs.
Smith had been a paralytic and
her death was not unexpected,
she having failed rapidly for the
past month. In December OF
1903 she received the first para
lytic stroke and since then was
the recipient of three more, not
taking into consideration the
numerous shocks she was sub
jected to. The first stroke par
-alyzed Mrs. Smiths left side, i'm
pedlng her speech and weakening
to certain extent her mental
faculties. The latter she recover
ed somewhat and hope was en-
tertained as to her ultimate re-
.covery the last stroke occurred
FIVE days before her death, rem
dering her absolutely helple IS,
and the end was seen to be,near
Alice E. Walsh was born Feb.
1859 in Quebec. Canada. At an
early age she with her parents
removed from Canada to Grand
Rapids, Wisconsin. Here she re-
sided until 1876 when she was
united in marriage to Samuel W.
Smith, who still survives. After
a two years residence in Briggs
vilIe, Wis, they returned to
Brand Rapids, remaining in that
City until 1889 when she and
her husband came to Eagle River,
embarking in the hotel business
in the stand then known as the
Hotel Denton (now the Milwau-
kee House Nine years after
they sold their hotel business.
They then purchased the Yer
onica House, changing the name
to Hotel Smith, TT continuing
50 until July Of last year, when,
owing to the helpless condition
of Mrs, Smith, the hotel property
was disposed Of to 4 J. Austin
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith retired to
private life, thereby enabling
Mrs. Smith to receive the care
and quiet necessary to her help
lesScorditiou.
Those of the immediate family
Who survive are; Samuel w
Smith (husband); Mrs. P. Walsh
imother); Mrs FREDERICK Morey
(sister); VIM. J.. Patrick and
James Walsh (brothers. J Pat
rick is now at Miles City. Mon
taua and James at Crandon
The funeral conducted by
Fathers Toplak and Sale at the
CATHOLIC church Monday fore
noon at 9o'cIoek, was the largest
ever held in Eagle River. Inter
ment was made in the family
lot i'll the village cemetery,
The following relatives from
put oftown attended the funeral:
James Walsh, Grand IN; John
and Daisy Smith, Briggsville;
Mrs, Lon enda Brown and Rich
ard Johnson. Grand Rapids.
The welded life of Mr.. and
Mrs, Smith was ideal, and the
devotion and affection bestowed
by wife to husband and husband
to wife canpot be more fttingly
extolled, than that expressed by
an old friend of Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith, who had stopped with
them at the Hotel Smith for
years: I'm the life of Mr. and
Mrs. Smith you find the true
marriage. the comradeship of
weli-mated beings, the devotion
and affection necessary for the
happiness in LIES battles, where
both man and wife vie with each
other IN the promotion and
CARRYING out of the hlial duties
and obligations entrusted to
each at the altar. Theirs has
been beautiful life embracing
period of over thirty years.
We, who knew Mrs. Smith SO
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