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A ROMANCE
Port Colborne News
[Welland Tribune, 16 April 1897]
The following sketch from Bay City, Mich., referring to the early life of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Smith (whose deaths were recently announced in the TRIBUNE) will be read with much interest. “The death of Mrs. T. Smith recalls to mind a pretty little story concerning her honeymoon and subsequent marriage. Mrs. Smith before her marriage w Catherine Felton. Her parents lived directly across the street from the parents of Mr. Smith, her future husband in York, Haldimand county, Ontario. At her birth Mr. Smith was called in and upon remarking what a pretty child she was, he was jokingly told if he waited for her he could have her for his wife. This remark was taken in earnest by the shy, bashful boy of 19, As the girl grew up to maidenhood, a strong bond of friendship sprang up between them which later ripened into true love, and neither ever had cause to repent of the boy’s determination on that day when she first saw the light.
At the age of 19 she was led to the altar by the man who had waited 19 long years for her, and the union resulted in four children now grown up. Two weeks ago Mr. Smith died at the age of 85 years. He came to this city in 1864 and recouped by judicious lumber investments a fortune made during the construction of the Welland canal and shattered in the panic of 1857. At the funeral Mrs. Smith contracted a slight cold which she could not throw off on account of her advanced age and it developed into pneumonia. Mrs. Smith’s funeral took place on Friday last, when she was laid beside the man on whose strong arm she leaned from the cradle. The couple were universally beloved and respected.
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