SMITH, Ernest, Beeville Picayune, Friday, 3 Jan 1913:

Ernest Smith, Dead.

Ernest Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Smith, who lives a short distant out on Blanconia road, 
died Wednesday morning at 11:30 o'clock, succumbing to tuberculosis after being confined to 
his bed for ten days. He was but twenty years, six months and fifteen days of age. 

The funeral occurred from the residence of Dr. E. M. Stephens in this city yesterday morning 
at 10 o'clock with internment in the New Cemetery. 

To the bereaved parents and loved ones, the Picayune extends sincerest sympathy.