Person:Stanley Smith (14)

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OBITUARY: The Coshocton Tribune, Monday June 1, 1931 Coshocton Barber Dies Following Automobile Accident W.Lafayette Youth Taken To Hospital. Stanley Smith 46, Dies in Zanesville Hospital Sunday Afternoon. Willis Roof is Injured. Crash Occurts Saturday Evening on Coshocton-New Concord Highway. - A local man is dead and a West Lafayette youth was seriously injured as the result of a head-on automobile crash on the New Concord-Coshocton road three miles north of New Concord Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock. -Stanley Smith, aged 46, 343 N. llth St., barber, died in Bethesda Hospital at Zanesville Sunday afternoon at 1:30 from a crushed chest. He also received fractures of both legs, arms, nose and ribs. He was conscious until the time of his death. -Willis Roof, 25, W.Laf., somof Wm. Roof, W.Laf. baker, was injured about the chest and body. -The accident happened on the brow of a hill. Rof, driving a Dodge dsedan, was enroute to Cambridge and Smith, who was driving a Whippet sedan, was returning from Rix Mills, where he had taken his wife and son, Jack to attend a reunion on Sunday. -Roof is confined to Wells hospital in Cambridge. He is expected to recover. Both cars were badly damaged. -Stanley B. Smith was born June 19, 1884 in Cumberland, Guernsey Co., where he spent his early life. He learned the barber trade with Gene Buckingham in a Cumberland shop and had worked in this city for the past 10 years at the "point." -Mr. Smith formerly operated a shop in Cambridge and from there went to Zanesville, where he was engaged in the same trade for a year before coming to this city. -He was a World War Veteran having served with the U.S. Marines before and during the war. -Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Estella Wilson on Apr. 27, 1910. -There are surviving his widow, two sons, Hugh and Jack, and a daughter, Miss Isabel Smith, all of Coshocton, a sister, Mrs. Jesse Moore of near Cumberland, and a brother-in-law, Ralph Wilson of North Terrace. The daughter is a member of this year's graduating class of Coshocton High School. -A military service, in charge of the American Legion, will be held Tues. p.m. at 2:30 at the United Brethran Church with Rev. C. W. Speckman. At the cemetery Rev. H.H. Parkinson, Chaplain of the Amer. Legion will have charge of a short service. The Amer. Legion firing squad will fire a salute over the grave; Burial will be in South Lawn Cemetery. NOTICE- MEMBERS AMERICAN LEGION AND FIRING SQUAD: Report at Legion Hall, Tues. 1:45 P.M. to attend the funeral of commrade Stanley B. Smith. Wear uniform or legion cap. NOTICE- All Union Barber Shops will be closed from 2:00-$:00 p.m. Tues., P.M. for the funeral of brother Stanley Smith. - (The following Thursday Isabel Smith graduated. Some members of her class of 1931 were: Betty Cullison, Jack Abbott, Walter Crawford, Glenn Carnahan, Charles Ehrich, Gilbert Kemph, Jean Laird, Helen Pegg, Cozette Royer, Otto Schuler, Alfred Shoman, Curtis Simmons) -(Son Jack only remembers the guns firing at the cemetery. He was four.)

1884 Stanley lived in Cumberland; 1900 Rich Hill twp. Muskingum Co.; 1904 Sprat (just above High Hill west of Cumberland; 191l Cumberland; 1912 Marietta; 1913 through 1917 Newton Falls; 1918 Cambridge; 1919 Zanesville; 1921 -1931 Coshocton.

1900 Census, Rich Hill, Muskingum Co., OH Lyons, James and Mary with 4 children..also listed, Smith, Stanley, farmhand, b. June 1884, age 15, single, Mother and Father born OH

OBITUARY: Estella Smith Cannon, 95, a former resident of Orchard St., died at 7 a.m. today at Cosh. Co., Memorial Hosp. following an extended illness. Born 12/19/1888 in Rix Mills, she was a daughter of the late Robert and Ruth Powell Wilson. She was a longtime member of the Park United Meth. Church. She was first married in 1910 to Stanley B. Smith. He preceded her in death in 1930. In 1936 she married R. E. Cannon who preceded her in death in 1950. Survivors include a son, Jack Smith of 1939 Woodland Dr., a daughter Mrs. Robert (Isabell) Sparks of Biloxi, Miss.; two stepsons Robert Cannon of Coshocton and Arthur Cannon of Dresden; a sister Mrs. Opal Jennings of West Lafayette Care Center; five grandchildren and four great grandchildren, five stepgrandchildren and several step great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Hugh Smith who died Dec. 30, 1983; 3 brothers, 3 sisters, a stepson, a stepdaughter, a granson and a stepgrandson. Graveside serviced at 11 a.m., Thurs. So.Lawn Cem. with Rev. Dennis Rinehart officiating. THE COSHOCTON TRIBUNE, Thurs., Apr. 17, 1984

Marriage Booklet: This certifies that on the 27th day of Apr., 1910 in the year of our Lord a Mr. Stanley B. Smith of Cumberland, OH and Ida Estella Wilson of Rix Mills, OH were by me united in Holy Matrimony at the United Presbyterian Parsonage, Rix Mills, OH. According to the Ordinance of God and the laws of the State of Ohio. A. M. Acheson, Minister. Witnesses: C. R. Wilson and Carrie Wilson.

In Stanley's obituary it refers to the "point". This was located on Chestnut St.at the corner of Chestnut St. and 11th. The building is still there. He and wife Estella (where Jack grew up) lived on 11th St. the address being 343 N. 11th. The house is still there (as of 2000.)

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