Funeral services were held Sunday morning, April 16, at the Live Oak Farm for Mrs. Allen J. Smith who died April 14, in the Turner Hospital, Houston.
Mrs. Smith was the descendant of one of the early settlers of Texas, a grand-daughter of William D. Lacy, who was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Her mother was Nannie Lacy and he father, Jonathan Edwards Pierce, who came to Texas from Rhode Island in the early part of 1850.
She was born Dec. 26th, 1872, and was their second child.
Two brothers, John P[hillips] Pierce of Palacios, and Abel B[rown] Pierce [Sr.], of Blessing, one sister, Grace Pierce Heffelfinger, of Minneapolis, Minn. and a half-brother, Johnathan Edward Pierce of Houston, besides a number of nieces and nephews survive. She was the widow of Dr. Allen J. Smith, who was head of the School of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania at the time of his death.
For a number of years, she had made her home at Live Oak Farm near Blessing and had made of it one of the show places in the county.
Following the services at her home, conducted by Rev. Pau; Engle, the remains were shipped to York, Penn., for burial, accompanied by Mrs. Clive Runnells, of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Heffelfinger, of Minneapolis, and A. B Pierce of Blessing.
Palacios Beacon, April 20, 1939
