Published in the Gulfport Daily Herald, Gulfport Miss.
Tuesday August 1, 1922 p. 5
Stone County News
LEE SMITH KILLED BY SNAKE BITE
Lee Smith, prominent citizen of George county, met a tragic death Friday last near his home near Parker Bridge on Red Creek when bitten by a rattlesnake. Smith, together with two other men were engaged in surveying land in the swamps when he was bitten by the snake which caused his death four hours later.
The snake was not killed, the men devoting their time to the relief of the suffering man, allowed it to escape.
Deceased was a man of middle age, and a man of good standing in his community where he resided with his mother and sisters.
He was buried in the family graveyard near the home of J.W. Hunt, Saturday afternoon.
Robert Smith, a brother of the dead man, died of pneumonia at Camp Pike in 1918, being one of the very few young men of this territory who made the supreme sacrifice in the world war.
The father of the dead man was killed by a falling tree while working in the woods a number of years ago, and this recent sad death in the Smith family brings the number of untimely deaths to three.
This is the first death caused from snake bite in this section for a number of years.
Obit submitted by Linda Ellis
Tuesday August 1, 1922 p. 5
Stone County News
LEE SMITH KILLED BY SNAKE BITE
Lee Smith, prominent citizen of George county, met a tragic death Friday last near his home near Parker Bridge on Red Creek when bitten by a rattlesnake. Smith, together with two other men were engaged in surveying land in the swamps when he was bitten by the snake which caused his death four hours later.
The snake was not killed, the men devoting their time to the relief of the suffering man, allowed it to escape.
Deceased was a man of middle age, and a man of good standing in his community where he resided with his mother and sisters.
He was buried in the family graveyard near the home of J.W. Hunt, Saturday afternoon.
Robert Smith, a brother of the dead man, died of pneumonia at Camp Pike in 1918, being one of the very few young men of this territory who made the supreme sacrifice in the world war.
The father of the dead man was killed by a falling tree while working in the woods a number of years ago, and this recent sad death in the Smith family brings the number of untimely deaths to three.
This is the first death caused from snake bite in this section for a number of years.
Obit submitted by Linda Ellis
Published in the Gulfport Daily Herald, Gulfport Miss.
Tuesday August 1, 1922 p. 5
Stone County News
LEE SMITH KILLED BY SNAKE BITE
Lee Smith, prominent citizen of George county, met a tragic death Friday last near his home near Parker Bridge on Red Creek when bitten by a rattlesnake. Smith, together with two other men were engaged in surveying land in the swamps when he was bitten by the snake which caused his death four hours later.
The snake was not killed, the men devoting their time to the relief of the suffering man, allowed it to escape.
Deceased was a man of middle age, and a man of good standing in his community where he resided with his mother and sisters.
He was buried in the family graveyard near the home of J.W. Hunt, Saturday afternoon.
Robert Smith, a brother of the dead man, died of pneumonia at Camp Pike in 1918, being one of the very few young men of this territory who made the supreme sacrifice in the world war.
The father of the dead man was killed by a falling tree while working in the woods a number of years ago, and this recent sad death in the Smith family brings the number of untimely deaths to three.
This is the first death caused from snake bite in this section for a number of years.
Obit submitted by Linda Ellis
Tuesday August 1, 1922 p. 5
Stone County News
LEE SMITH KILLED BY SNAKE BITE
Lee Smith, prominent citizen of George county, met a tragic death Friday last near his home near Parker Bridge on Red Creek when bitten by a rattlesnake. Smith, together with two other men were engaged in surveying land in the swamps when he was bitten by the snake which caused his death four hours later.
The snake was not killed, the men devoting their time to the relief of the suffering man, allowed it to escape.
Deceased was a man of middle age, and a man of good standing in his community where he resided with his mother and sisters.
He was buried in the family graveyard near the home of J.W. Hunt, Saturday afternoon.
Robert Smith, a brother of the dead man, died of pneumonia at Camp Pike in 1918, being one of the very few young men of this territory who made the supreme sacrifice in the world war.
The father of the dead man was killed by a falling tree while working in the woods a number of years ago, and this recent sad death in the Smith family brings the number of untimely deaths to three.
This is the first death caused from snake bite in this section for a number of years.
Obit submitted by Linda Ellis
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