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Posted in Decatur County Journal-Iowa March 24, 1898
Calvin Emery Smith, youngest child of Thomas J. and Angeline Smith, was born July 1, 1872 at Madison Mills, Fayette County, Ohio, and died at the Homeopathic Hospital, Iowa City, March 19, 1898, aged 25 years, 8 months and 18 days.
In March, 1882, Calvin, with his parents, brothers, and sisters, came to their present home, three miles north of Leon, where he has ever since resided. He united with the Presbyterian Church of Leon August 29, 1886.
He was a great lover of music and for years sang in the choir of his own church, assisting also on many public occasions. He was gifted with a strong deep bass and all loved to hear his voice. He sang, too, at many funerals, but now his voice is silent, and a quartette of comrades chanted over his remains the requiem for the dead. He was naturally of a very cheerful dispostion, and always willing to do his part, and even more uncomplainingly. He made friends readily and retained them by his warm, kind disposition. He was true and loyal to his friends, despising hypocrisy in every form. How much, too, he was loved in the home circle. But he was stricken down in the flower of manhood, and home and community feel an aching void.
March 4, 1898, he went to Iowa City, and there underwent a surgical operation which had become necessary. After the operation typhoid malaria developed. Being weakened from the operation, his physical vitality was not able to withstand this second assault and the bodily life succumbed. Hopes and projects cherished and formed were thus suddenly blighted and the sphere of his existence suddenly changed from time to eternity, from earth to the spirit land. Being at the close of his life a Christian, his friends do not mourn as others who have no hope. This startling providence speaks especially to his associates: "Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the son of man cometh."
The funeral services were held at the home Tuesday afternoon, his pastor improving the occasion by remarks on Romans 14:7-9. After the service, the remains in a casket with beautiful floral tributes by the choir and others, were laid in the Leon Cemetery.
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