Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times, Tuesday, May 30, 1899, page 1:
A.J. Smith Suicides.
Andrew Jackson Smith, one of the best known and most highly respected prospectors and miners of the county committed suicide at his home west of Portland yesterday. He was last seen alive between 9 and 10 o’clock and found dead about 3:30. He took his Winchester rifle from his cabin to about 35 yards distant where he made deliberate preparations for the deed. He rolled his shirts up to have his heart for the bullet and placing the muzzle of the gun just below the heart pushed the trigger with a stick, crotched for the purpose. The ball passed up through the heart and out at the point of the right shoulder. A coroner’s jury was summoned who returned a verdict of suicide without assigning a cause therefor.
The deceased had been in poor health for some time and had ben morose and disheartened since the death of his wife at Troy, New York, about a year ago. He was born in Troy, New York, 63 years ago where he was a prosperous merchant before his coming west. Col. Thornby, when a boy bought many pounds of groceries at the store of Stiter & Smith, corner of Congress and Fifth streets. He left Troy in 1860, going to New Mexico and Arizona. In 1874 he went to Sidney, Nebraska, and was connected with the commissary department of the government post there. In March, 1877, he formed a partnership with Judge Thomas D. Murrin and brought a stock of groceries to Central City where they opened a store a month later. During that year he located the Trojan, Empire State and Perseverance claims which is now the property of the Portland Mining Co. He has since that time made his home at or near there. During the last five years, he and Lee Hall have been living together at Crown Hill station. He leaves two daughters. The funeral will be held from the Congregational church, this city, at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, the following will act as pallbearers: John Greenough, Lloyd Boswell, Thos. Sanders, Major Fairbank, Al Holmes and H.W. Ellington.
Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times, Thursday, June 1, 1899, page 8:
The remains of A.J. Smith were interred in Mount Moriah cemetery in Deadwood yesterday afternoon, the funeral service being held at the Congregational church, conducted by Rev. J.W. Barron, pastor. Music was rendered by the male quartette from the Methodist church, under the leadership of W.G. Rice, Mrs. H.A. Cable being at the organ. The pallbearers were Albe Holmes, John Greenough, Thomas Saunders, J.B. Fairbank, H.W. Ellington, and Lloyd Boswell.
A.J. Smith Suicides.
Andrew Jackson Smith, one of the best known and most highly respected prospectors and miners of the county committed suicide at his home west of Portland yesterday. He was last seen alive between 9 and 10 o’clock and found dead about 3:30. He took his Winchester rifle from his cabin to about 35 yards distant where he made deliberate preparations for the deed. He rolled his shirts up to have his heart for the bullet and placing the muzzle of the gun just below the heart pushed the trigger with a stick, crotched for the purpose. The ball passed up through the heart and out at the point of the right shoulder. A coroner’s jury was summoned who returned a verdict of suicide without assigning a cause therefor.
The deceased had been in poor health for some time and had ben morose and disheartened since the death of his wife at Troy, New York, about a year ago. He was born in Troy, New York, 63 years ago where he was a prosperous merchant before his coming west. Col. Thornby, when a boy bought many pounds of groceries at the store of Stiter & Smith, corner of Congress and Fifth streets. He left Troy in 1860, going to New Mexico and Arizona. In 1874 he went to Sidney, Nebraska, and was connected with the commissary department of the government post there. In March, 1877, he formed a partnership with Judge Thomas D. Murrin and brought a stock of groceries to Central City where they opened a store a month later. During that year he located the Trojan, Empire State and Perseverance claims which is now the property of the Portland Mining Co. He has since that time made his home at or near there. During the last five years, he and Lee Hall have been living together at Crown Hill station. He leaves two daughters. The funeral will be held from the Congregational church, this city, at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, the following will act as pallbearers: John Greenough, Lloyd Boswell, Thos. Sanders, Major Fairbank, Al Holmes and H.W. Ellington.
Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times, Thursday, June 1, 1899, page 8:
The remains of A.J. Smith were interred in Mount Moriah cemetery in Deadwood yesterday afternoon, the funeral service being held at the Congregational church, conducted by Rev. J.W. Barron, pastor. Music was rendered by the male quartette from the Methodist church, under the leadership of W.G. Rice, Mrs. H.A. Cable being at the organ. The pallbearers were Albe Holmes, John Greenough, Thomas Saunders, J.B. Fairbank, H.W. Ellington, and Lloyd Boswell.
Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times, Tuesday, May 30, 1899, page 1:
A.J. Smith Suicides.
Andrew Jackson Smith, one of the best known and most highly respected prospectors and miners of the county committed suicide at his home west of Portland yesterday. He was last seen alive between 9 and 10 o’clock and found dead about 3:30. He took his Winchester rifle from his cabin to about 35 yards distant where he made deliberate preparations for the deed. He rolled his shirts up to have his heart for the bullet and placing the muzzle of the gun just below the heart pushed the trigger with a stick, crotched for the purpose. The ball passed up through the heart and out at the point of the right shoulder. A coroner’s jury was summoned who returned a verdict of suicide without assigning a cause therefor.
The deceased had been in poor health for some time and had ben morose and disheartened since the death of his wife at Troy, New York, about a year ago. He was born in Troy, New York, 63 years ago where he was a prosperous merchant before his coming west. Col. Thornby, when a boy bought many pounds of groceries at the store of Stiter & Smith, corner of Congress and Fifth streets. He left Troy in 1860, going to New Mexico and Arizona. In 1874 he went to Sidney, Nebraska, and was connected with the commissary department of the government post there. In March, 1877, he formed a partnership with Judge Thomas D. Murrin and brought a stock of groceries to Central City where they opened a store a month later. During that year he located the Trojan, Empire State and Perseverance claims which is now the property of the Portland Mining Co. He has since that time made his home at or near there. During the last five years, he and Lee Hall have been living together at Crown Hill station. He leaves two daughters. The funeral will be held from the Congregational church, this city, at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, the following will act as pallbearers: John Greenough, Lloyd Boswell, Thos. Sanders, Major Fairbank, Al Holmes and H.W. Ellington.
Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times, Thursday, June 1, 1899, page 8:
The remains of A.J. Smith were interred in Mount Moriah cemetery in Deadwood yesterday afternoon, the funeral service being held at the Congregational church, conducted by Rev. J.W. Barron, pastor. Music was rendered by the male quartette from the Methodist church, under the leadership of W.G. Rice, Mrs. H.A. Cable being at the organ. The pallbearers were Albe Holmes, John Greenough, Thomas Saunders, J.B. Fairbank, H.W. Ellington, and Lloyd Boswell.
A.J. Smith Suicides.
Andrew Jackson Smith, one of the best known and most highly respected prospectors and miners of the county committed suicide at his home west of Portland yesterday. He was last seen alive between 9 and 10 o’clock and found dead about 3:30. He took his Winchester rifle from his cabin to about 35 yards distant where he made deliberate preparations for the deed. He rolled his shirts up to have his heart for the bullet and placing the muzzle of the gun just below the heart pushed the trigger with a stick, crotched for the purpose. The ball passed up through the heart and out at the point of the right shoulder. A coroner’s jury was summoned who returned a verdict of suicide without assigning a cause therefor.
The deceased had been in poor health for some time and had ben morose and disheartened since the death of his wife at Troy, New York, about a year ago. He was born in Troy, New York, 63 years ago where he was a prosperous merchant before his coming west. Col. Thornby, when a boy bought many pounds of groceries at the store of Stiter & Smith, corner of Congress and Fifth streets. He left Troy in 1860, going to New Mexico and Arizona. In 1874 he went to Sidney, Nebraska, and was connected with the commissary department of the government post there. In March, 1877, he formed a partnership with Judge Thomas D. Murrin and brought a stock of groceries to Central City where they opened a store a month later. During that year he located the Trojan, Empire State and Perseverance claims which is now the property of the Portland Mining Co. He has since that time made his home at or near there. During the last five years, he and Lee Hall have been living together at Crown Hill station. He leaves two daughters. The funeral will be held from the Congregational church, this city, at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, the following will act as pallbearers: John Greenough, Lloyd Boswell, Thos. Sanders, Major Fairbank, Al Holmes and H.W. Ellington.
Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times, Thursday, June 1, 1899, page 8:
The remains of A.J. Smith were interred in Mount Moriah cemetery in Deadwood yesterday afternoon, the funeral service being held at the Congregational church, conducted by Rev. J.W. Barron, pastor. Music was rendered by the male quartette from the Methodist church, under the leadership of W.G. Rice, Mrs. H.A. Cable being at the organ. The pallbearers were Albe Holmes, John Greenough, Thomas Saunders, J.B. Fairbank, H.W. Ellington, and Lloyd Boswell.
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