Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — EVERELL SMITH IS KILLED [ARTICLE]

EVERELL SMITH IS KILLED

In Automobile Accident Near 0 Sidney, N. Y., Thursday. • Jefferson Smith of this city, received a telegram Thursday, afternoon stating that his son, Everoll Smith, of near Sidney, N. Y„ had been badly injured that morning in an automobile accident. About a half hour later another telegram was received saying that he had died that same afternoon and the body would 'be brought' here for burial. No particulars of the accident have been received. Up to 2 o’clock yesterday they had not received wXrd of the time the funeral party would leave New York, but it was thought it would be some time yesterday and that the body would arrive . in Rensselaex either Saturday evening or Sunday. Mr. Smith was 41 years oj age and is' survived by a wife and four children, all girls. He bought a farm near Sidney, Delaware county, N. Y., and moved there two years ago, his father-in-law, H. M. Shipman, accompanying him and making his home with the family. News of his tragic death was a great shock to his parents, relatives and friends here, x