Martin - Samuel Smiley
Source: Darlington Herald, Darlington, Montgomery County, Indiana, Friday 10-27-1916
Samuel Smiley Martin was born in Washington
County PA Feb 8, 1838 and died at his home in Darlington at six o'clock
Thursday evening Oct 19, 1916. He was 78 years 8 months 11 days old. In
his early boyhood, with his parents he moved to Logan Co Ohio. On Oct 8,
1857, 59 years ago, he was married to Sarah Jane Royer and immediately
went to housekeeping on a farm in Sugar Creek Township, Montgomery
County, Indiana. Here they continued to live until 1888 when they moved
to Darlington where he died after a short illness of Arterio-Sclerosis.
He was the father of six children, 3 girls and 3 boys. Mrs. Rev. Hugh
Taylor of Nan, Loos, India; Mrs. A.K. Peterson of Darlington; Mrs. O.M.
Delashmit of Ladoga, Ind; Thomas H.L. Martin of Louisville, Ky; B.S.
Martin of Louisville and Dr. G.E. Martin of Myers, Ky, all of whom with
his widow survive. There are also 16 grandchildren all of whom are
living. The funeral services were conducted Sunday morning at 11 at the
Methodist Church of which Mr. Martin had long been a member. Rev.
Nicely, pastor preached a powerful sermon to an immense congregation
which had gathered to pay their respects to a man whom all loved. A
quartette composed of Mrs. Bert Hiatt, Mrs. Frank Caldwell, R.B. Cox and
Dean Little with Miss Dorothy Finley at the piano sang Abide with Me
and No Dying There, I want to Go There was sung by WC Stewart of
Crawfordsville. Having been a member of the GAR and Masonic Order, these
organizations attended in a body and the Masonic services were
conducted at the grave in the IOOF Cemetery. Besides numerous friends
from over the state the following out of town relatives attended: OM
Delashmit and family, Ladoga, Ind; THL Martin and wife, Louisville, Ky,
BS Martin, Louisville, Ky, Dr GE Martin and wife, Myers, Ky; Mrs. OM
Booher, Kokomo, Ind; Mrs. Orval Simpson and children, Kewanna ind; Homer
Hayes and family, New Ross, Ind; Herman Delashmit and wife,
Crawfordsville , Ind and George Kitzmiller and son Herbert, Romney, Ind. - transcribed by kbz