{"id":375,"date":"2014-11-01T16:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/?p=375"},"modified":"2014-10-17T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:16:40","slug":"smith-benjamin-j-d-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/smith-benjamin-j-d-1918\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, Benjamin J. &#8211; (d. 1918)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Passed to the Great Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tis sad to Chronicle the death of <strong>Mr. Benjamin J. SMITH,<\/strong> which occurred at the home of Humphrey Bros., Monday, April 8, at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>He had been ill only a few days, and his death came as a shock to his many friends throughout the community. \u00a0He was about sixty years of age; and came here about five years ago from New Jersey, to engage in the lumber industry.<\/p>\n<p>He soon became attached to the <strong>HUMPHREY<\/strong> family, and remained with them until his death. \u00a0He was a very industrious man, with a pleasant disposition, and soon won many warm friends here, where he was familiarly known as &#8220;Uncle Ben.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such a warm attachment existed between he and the HUMPHREY family, that since the death of his mother, which occurred several months ago, he expressed this as being his home. \u00a0As a member of this family, he took an interest in everything pertaining to their affairs and will be sadly missed.<\/p>\n<p>He was very appreciative of their kindness to him, and especially to <strong>Mrs. HUMPHREY<\/strong>, who so tenderly cared for him during his illness.<\/p>\n<p>Failing to hear from any of his kindred, he was buried in a beautiful casket in Mount Williams cemetery. \u00a0The burial service was conducted by the pastor, Rev. <strong>P.L. CLARK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His cheerful smile and jolly disposition will be missed in the community by his many friends; yet there is a sweet consolation to know he had the best attention of a skillful physician and the kindest care of the family and friends. \u00a0As there were no kindred present, I, as a friend, contribute this little item hoping some day some loved one, many know of his death and burial. \u00a0&#8212; <strong>C.P. MOORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: Pender Chronicle, 18 April 1918, page 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passed to the Great Beyond Tis sad to Chronicle the death of Mr. Benjamin J. SMITH, which occurred at the home of Humphrey Bros., Monday, April 8, at 6:30pm. He had been ill only a few days, and his death came as a shock to his many friends throughout the community. \u00a0He was about sixty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/smith-benjamin-j-d-1918\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SMITH, Benjamin J. &#8211; (d. 1918)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12207],"tags":[5961,6884,4863],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individualobituary","tag-clark","tag-moore","tag-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}