Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — COUPLE DIE 36 HOURS APART [ARTICLE]

COUPLE DIE 36 HOURS APART

Pathos In the Last Hours of Mr. and Mrs. Bmlth of Pennsylvania, Who Were Long Wedded. Pittsburg, Pa. —John S. Smith, 86 years old, and his wife, 79, are dead at their home in Reynoidsvllle, Pa., and they were buried side by side. Many times Mrs. Smith had said: “If John dies first I • want to live only long enough to know that he Is dead.” Both became 111 from pneumonia. When the husband died the aged woman, in another room, knew by the faces of her children that her companion had gone. She called them to her bedside. “John is dead, isn’t her When told the truth she said: “Don’t bury him till Wednesday." She Joined him id death thirty-six hoars later.