SMITH, James Scott
Date of death: 13 Oct 1900 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 19, 1900,
Volume XLI, Number 16, page 1, column 2
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Scott Smith, formerly of Nineveh Township, who moved from Franklin several months ago to Indianapolis, died Saturday at his home in that city. The remains were taken to Nineveh for burial.
Link to James Scott Smith’s grave
Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Indianapolis, Wayne Township, Marion County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 265 records that James Scott Smith died at about 5 o’clock a. m. on 14 Oct 1900 at his residence, 223 Harris Ave, Indianapolis from exhaustion, caused by enteritis, aged fifty-five years, five months and twenty-six days. He was male, white, married and a carpenter, born in Indiana. His father’s name was Joseph Smith, born in Indiana and his mother’s maiden name unknown, born in Tennessee. James was buried in Franklin, Indiana on 16 Oct 1900, Whitsett & Culver, undertaker..
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson