{"id":2701,"date":"2014-10-17T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2014-10-17T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:16:24","slug":"benjamin-smith-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/benjamin-smith-1918\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, Benjamin J. – (d. 1918)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passed to the Great Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tis sad to Chronicle the death of Mr. Benjamin J. SMITH,<\/strong> which occurred at the home of Humphrey Bros., Monday, April 8, at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n

He had been ill only a few days, and his death came as a shock to his many friends throughout the community. \u00a0He was about sixty years of age; and came here about five years ago from New Jersey, to engage in the lumber industry.<\/p>\n

He soon became attached to the HUMPHREY<\/strong> family, and remained with them until his death. \u00a0He was a very industrious man, with a pleasant disposition, and soon won many warm friends here, where he was familiarly known as “Uncle Ben.”<\/p>\n

Such a warm attachment existed between he and the HUMPHREY family, that since the death of his mother, which occurred several months ago, he expressed this as being his home. \u00a0As a member of this family, he took an interest in everything pertaining to their affairs and will be sadly missed.<\/p>\n

He was very appreciative of their kindness to him, and especially to Mrs. HUMPHREY<\/strong>, who so tenderly cared for him during his illness.<\/p>\n

Failing to hear from any of his kindred, he was buried in a beautiful casket in Mount Williams cemetery. \u00a0The burial service was conducted by the pastor, Rev. P.L. CLARK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His cheerful smile and jolly disposition will be missed in the community by his many friends; yet there is a sweet consolation to know he had the best attention of a skillful physician and the kindest care of the family and friends. \u00a0As there were no kindred present, I, as a friend, contribute this little item hoping some day some loved one, many know of his death and burial. \u00a0— C.P. MOORE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Source: Pender Chronicle, 18 April 1918, page 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passed to the Great Beyond Tis sad to Chronicle the death of Mr. Benjamin J. SMITH, which occurred at the home of Humphrey Bros., Monday, April 8, at 6:30pm. He had been ill only a few days, and his death came as a shock to his many friends throughout the community. \u00a0He was about sixty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,494,2400],"tags":[2448,2447,2446],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-pender","category-pender-chronicle","tag-clark-p-l","tag-moore-c-p","tag-smith-benjamin-j"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-Hz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}