Obituary Record

At 11 o'clock, Monday night, Dr. Henry M. Smith, the noted divine, died in Bay St Louis at Dr. von Gohren's Sanitarium, where he was in search of regaining health. The remains left Tuesday for New Orleans for burial.

Henry M. Smith was born in Carlisle, Pa., June, 1828. He was of Saxon descent. He was educated in Jefferson college, graduating in 1851. He then entered the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C., completing his studies in 1853. He was soon after licensed to preach and in 1853 was put in charge of the second Presbyterian church at Charleston, S. C.

In 1856 he went to New Orleans and for a few months was connected with the First Presbyterian church, and was subsequently placed in charge of the Third Presbyterian church, of which he was pastor for more than twenty-five years.

During the civil war he served as chaplain in the confederate army at Corinth and Jackson, Miss, and Shreveport, La. During the last year of the war he edited and published the Army and Navy Messenger, a religious paper, for circulation among soldiers and sailors. He assisted in organization of the Presbyterian mission. At the close of hostilities he resumed his pastorate.

In 1889 he resigned and retired from the active practice of his ministry and in the same year he resigned the editorship of the Southwestern Presbyterian, a weekly religious journal which he founded in 1869, and of which he had been editor continuously from that date.

Source: Sea Coast Echo 06/09/1894