DIED, July 26th, 1880, at his mother's residence, near Corinth, Miss., Rev. Hampton Smith, aged 36 years. The subject of this notice embraced religion at a protracted religious service in Corinth, in the year 1866, and connected himself with the Cumberland Presbyterian church at that place. Soon after his connection with the church he felt that he was impressed by God's Holy Spirit to preach the gospel, and about the year 1869 was received under care of Bell Presbytery as a probationer for the gospel ministry. While he believed it his duty to preach the gospel, he was also impressed with the fact that deep and thorough preparation for this work was a necessity. With this conviction upon his mind, he entered Cumberland University to avail himself of the advantages which that institution then offered to the young men of the Church preparing for the gospel ministry. After long and studious application, he was graduated by that institution in the graduating class of 1871-2. Though qualified in head and heart to be "a workman that needeth not to be ashamed," he had scarcely finished his course, and bid his "alma mata" adieu, when disease fastened upon him, and death pointed him out as one of its victims in the not very distant future.

He told the writer, three days before his departure, that he had been a constant sufferer for seven long years; but at the same time he rejoiced in the fact that they were almost ended, and very soon he would see the Master, and be with him forever beyond the possible reach of sickness, pain, and death. He also spoke of the blessed reunion which was so soon to take place with those who had gone on before.

He and his brother, Rev. B. F. Smith, who preceded him about two years, belonged to the same congregation and church. They both joined the same Presbytery at the same time. They were both licensed by the same Presbytery at the same time. The hands of the same Presbytery were laid upon them in ordination at the same time. And now they both sleep side by side in the same family cemetery, where that aged and widowed mother, who gave them to God and the Church, can visit the spot and bedew the sod which covers their bones with the tear of love and affection. "He being dead, yet speaketh." "Write, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them."

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, July 29, 1880, page 1]