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The Times Herald
Port Huron, MI
Saturday, May 25, 1946

         JOSEPH R. SMITH
         
         Bad Axe, May 25 - JOSEPH R. SMITH, 68, former
       Drain Commissioner of Huron County, died Friday
       noon in his home in Gladwin, Mich.
         He is survived by his widow, Mrs. ALICE SMITH,
       whom he married Jan. 1, 1903 in Bad Axe; three
       daughters, Mrs. ELLA ENGEL, Roscommon, Mich.,
       Mrs. BEATRICE McRAE, East Detroit, and Mrs. ANNA-
       BELLE PAGE, Gladwin, Mich.; two sons, GEORGE and
       BERT SMITH, both of Greenville, Mich.; 14 grand-
       children; a brother, FRANK SMITH, Pigeon, and a
       sister, Mrs. MARGARET KRUSE, Minneapolis, Minn.
         Funeral services will be held in Pigeon Metho-
       dist church at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Rev. Ellis E.
       Biggs, pastor of the Assembly of God church,
       Albion, will officiate. Burial will be in Colfax
       Cemetery, Bad Axe.
         Mr. SMITH was Drain Commissioner for 16 years.
       He left office Dec. 31, 1926.
         After he left the Drain Commissioner office,
       he operated a restaurant in Pigeon several years.
         In 1930, he won the Republican nomination for
       Sheriff of Huron County in a field of seven candi-
       dates. In the general election, he had a three-
       vote margin over the late JOSEPH J. MURRAY, Demo-
       cratic nominee, but MURRAY won in a recount.
         Mr. SMITH moved to Gladwin about 12 years ago.
       
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