Tuesday, April 22, 2008

GERTRUDE SMITH - HARVEY SMITH - Obituaries

Mrs. Gertrude Smith

Harvey Smith

The East Liverpool Tribune

April 24, 1906

DOUBLE FUNERAL HELD

Victims of Williamsport Tragedy Were Buried Yesterday

The double funeral of Mrs. Gertrude Smith, and her brother-in-law, Harvey Smith, was held at the Smith home near Williamsport, yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the presence of a large crowd of people attracted there by a morbid curiosity.

The services were conducted by the Rev. W. H. Clark, of Calcutta, and he closed his oration with expressions of heartfelt sympathy for the unfortunate husband and brother..

The bodies were interred in the Clarkson cemetery. The funeral was attended by the parents of the bereaved husband and by a sister of the murdered woman.

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