Smith - Louisa Kaine
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Saturday, 24 October 1874
The Lafayette Journal announces the death of the wife of Dr. John L. Smith, late Presiding Elder of this district. She died at Lafayette last Thursday morning. She had been a sufferer for many months.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Saturday, 24 Oct 1874
A brief paragraph in the Journal last week announced the death of Mrs. John L. Smith. The funeral discourse was delivered by Rev. Dr. Graham. From it we extract the following concerning the life and character of this estimable woman;
“Louisa J. Kaine, wife of John L. Smith, D. D., of the Northwestern Indiana Conference, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, October 22, 1818, and died in Lafayette, October 22, 1874, thus attaining the age of 56 years, and, what is somewhat remarkable ending a well rounded life on the anniversary of her natal day.
Sister Smith united with the M. E. Church in Green County, Ohio, under the ministration of Rev. Harvey Sweeney in July, 1835, and continued a faithful and consistent member until she was transferred from the church militant to the church triumphant.
On December 1, 1840, she was married to her now bereaved husband in Montgomery County, Ohio, by his colleague on the Circuit, the lamented Rev. John H. Bruce. Since then she has accompanied her husband in all the changes and meanderings of an itinerant preacher’s life. Some two years ago she began to experience the symptoms of the insidious disease which terminated in her death, pulmonary consumption. As a devoted wife she was a model, and her home, however humble, was always neat, orderly, and attractive. The day after her marriage she rode on horseback with her husband 45 miles to one of his appointments on the Circuit where he preached at night. She had but recently removed to Lafayette, but was for years a resident of Stockwell, and often in the city. She had formed a wide circle of friends, who gathered about her in her last days to comfort and console her. =s