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Submitted: 2/12/12 • Approved: 6/14/22 • Last Updated: 6/17/22 • R648093-G648092-S3
October 5, 1825 - June 10, 1905
Daughter of John M & Sarah E McADAMS Trollinger
Wife of Captain David Tucker "Tuck" Smith, married 5 January 1844 in Bedford County, Tennessee; they were the parents of at least 13 children.
*Obituary
Fayetteville Daily
Monday, June 19, 1905
Died on the morning the 10th of June at the hour of 5 o'clock at her home near Sydenham, Elizabeth Jane Smith. Grandma Smith, as she was familiarly called, would have been 80 years old had she lived until the 5th of October. Her death broke the link that had joined husband and wife for 61 long years. One can imagine what a sore trial it was for the companion. She made the remark that she wished they could go together. Grandma Smith's maiden name was Trollinger. She was married to D.T. Smith in Tennessee in the year 1844, leaving there in 1850 and came to Arkansas, where they lived up to the time of her death.
She was the mother of thirteen children, eleven of whom are still living. She was very dear to her children, she very seldom left her home except is case of sickness, thus will she be missed all the more, for when her children and grandchildren started to grandma's they knew they would find her there sitting in the corner which place she had occupied for several years, her being to frail to attend to her household duties. She was always there to welcome all who entered her door. It seemed to those who watched around her bedside during her sickness that she had more than her share of suffering, but we should all be ready to admit that our all-wise Creator knows best. All through the three months of her sickness her children and friends watched her bedside, never tiring of trying to sooth the pain or cool the burning fever, but when they thought everything had been done that could be, they could only fold their arms and submit to the will of our Heavenly Father.
When looked on in death the tears that were wrung from their hearts by her suffering were almost dried away by such a pleasant smile on her face it seems like a true token that she had found her little ones that had preceded her to the better world, from which place he will be waiting and watching for the loved ones that are left behind. As they are called from this earth one by one may they make a united family in heaven, is the prayer of the writer. - A Friend
Contributed on 2/12/12 by jrussell44
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