From: Sue Davis

South Bend Tribune, February 9, 1954, Page 9:
Ezra W. Smith
  Ezra W. Smith, Rt. 3, Box 453, South Bend, retired farmer, died at 4:45 p.m. Monday in a nursing home at 1044 Lincoln Way West.  He had been ill three month.  Born in Warren Township, St. Joseph County, Nov. 17, 1870, Mr. Smith was a lifetime county resident.  His wife, the former Miss Anna Mae Sheddrick, whom he married in St. Joseph, Mich., died in 1920.  Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Robert Glaser; two sons, Edgar O. and Harold A., and five grandchildren, all of South Bend, and two sisters, Mrs. Etta Purucker, of South Bend, and Mrs. Emma Ingleright, Slippery Rock, Pa.  Friends may call in the Orvis Funeral Home after 7 p.m. today until services there at 2 p.m. Thursday.  Rev. Lawrence C. Reynolds of the South Side Church of God, will officiate.  Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. 

South Bend Tribune, February 10, 1954:
SMITH - Pallbearers for the funeral of Ezra W. Smith, Rt. 3, Box 453, South Bend, at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Orvis Funea Home, will be Earl Porter, Floyd Whitsel, Julius Yohouse, Lloye Stoupe, Samuel Safsells and Basil Milliken.