Smith - Florence Fuson
Source: Daily News Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana June 3, 1901 p 8
Mrs. Flo Fuson Smith died at the home of her mother on south Green Street at 12 o'clock noon today . The funeral will occur at First Baptist Church Tuesday at 3 p.m Rev AW Runyan will officiate - kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 7 June 1901
October 4th, last year, the wedding of Flora Fuson and Thomas Allen Smith, of Indianapolis, was solemnized at the Baptist Church in the presence of a large concourse of friends. The ushers were four in number, but the bridal party was unattended, except by two dainty little maidens, Misses Sylvia Fuson and Marguerite Given, who, bearing baskets of roses, preceded the bride to the alter, where they were met by the groom and the officiating clergyman, Rev. A. W. Runyan, who performed the ceremony impressively, adding a glowing tribute to the father of the bride, Rev. G. P. Fuson, as a monument to whose faithful labors the new Baptist Church stands in this city today. After the marriage the bride and groom received their friends in the church parlors. Both parlors and the church proper were decorated by the young people’s society, as a loving service to an earnest member and to the memory of her beloved father. Mr. and Mrs. Smith then went to Indianapolis to reside.
Eight months from that happy wedding day, June 4, 1901, a solemn concourse again gathered at the church, to attend the funeral of Mrs. Smith. Again the same tiny maidens went before the bride, but now they bore snow white blossoms while she lay pale and silent in the velvet casket and the hearts which had beat high at the merry marriage bells were bowed and heavy with sorrow. Four weeks after her wedding, Mrs. Smith was taken very ill with typhoid fever and brought back to her mother’s house to leave it no more until she was borne to her burial. The fever was conquered, but an old disease lurking in her system developed rapidly, and soon ended the sweet young life.
The funeral was very largely attended and the services peculiarly impressive. Those with whose voices her own had so often blended in songs of praise, now sang for her “Rest in Peace,” and “Light after Darkness,” in tones most sweet yet tremulous with sorrow as they remembered the vacant place in the choir. Pastor Runyan spoke with deep feeling, noting the singular fact that the three most important events of Flora’s life had taken place at that sacred altar. There, Oct. 4th, 1887, she was baptized and gave her heart to God. There, Oct. 4, thirteen years later on the same spot if not in the same building, she gave her heart to her husband in marriage vows. There, June 4, eight months after, she was borne to her long rest, and the song-service to which she was so faithful here, through sun and storm, in sickness and in health, is continued on the other shore where father, brother, and many loved ones were waiting to give her joyous welcome. The deepest sympathy of the whole community is given to the bereaved husband, the mother and brothers and sisters who are left. The interment was at the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, where, beside her noble father, Flora will sleep until we all meet again to part no more.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 7 June 1901
Mrs. Florence Fuson Smith died at the home of her mother on South Green Street at 12 a.m. Monday. The funeral took place at the First Baptist Church Tuesday at 3 p.m. Rev. A. W. Runyan officiated. The deceased was married to Thomas A. Smith, of Indianapolis, on October 4, 1900, and two weeks later was taken with typhoid fever. While this disease was broken up, she remained a confirmed invalid, not leaving her be .. (sorry rest missing)
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