Robert SMART [3091]

  General Notes:

1928 Born Scotland
1839 Arrived 13 August Ariadne age 11y
1915 SA Death 394/577 SMART Robert, Arthur Emmanuel SMART (S), Clare

Narridy Cemetery, Memorial Inscription, SMART Robert, 87y, 1915

Narridy Cemetery Notes compiled by Russell & Liz Smart (online)
Born in Glasgow Scotland 3-2-1828 he arrived in S.A. aboard the 'Ariadne" with parents John and Agnes Smart on 13-8-1839, -- married 16-4-1854 at Trinity Church North Terrace to Elizabeth Ann Roberts daughter of Thomas and Hannah Roberts. Robert Smart worked as a boy - for Mr. White --caring for stock at the Reed Beds west of Adelaide, and later at Burra Mines, Forest Creek Gold diggings, in Victoria, farming at Golden Grove then "Ardtornish" Modbury before bringing his family north to join brother and neighbour Charles Fleming Smart in 1879, Sections 11; 12; 67; 69; 70 in the Hundred of Narridy, which he leased from the Estate of George Neagle and Mrs Catherine Neagle who had moved to reside in Adelaide. Brown marble headstone

Australian Christian Commonwealth (SA : 1901 - 1940) Fri 25 Feb 1916
Our Sainted Dead
Mr. Robert Smart.
The words of Job v., 26, "Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a "shock of corn cometh in in its season," were verified in the life and death of Bro. Robert Smart. Born in Glasgow in 1828, with his parents he arrived in South Australia eleven years later. For forty years he resided at Golden Grove. The remaining period of thirty-six years was spent at Narridy. Sixty-one years ago he entered into a partnership which was ideal in its character. The affection between husband and wife grew more beautiful as the years passed on. It was an outstanding fact in the life of the home. Of a family of eleven ten survive.
In 1879 Bro. Smart became a- member of the Presbyterian Church, the Church of his fathers. Fifteen years ago he united in Methodist membership. His life was characterized by a marked unobtrusiveness and unquestionable sincerity. His children were trained to reverence all that was best, and through long years parents led the way to the house of God. The period of weakness and pain which preceded the end was brief. On the evening of August 16 the angel of deliverance entered the home, and a long, useful, and honoured life found its consummation in the spiritual sphere from which Time had wrought out a work of preparation. At graveside and "In Memoriam" service large numbers were in attendance to pay their last tributes to departed-worth.

Robert married Elizabeth Ann ROBERTS [6759] [MRIN: 1014], daughter of Thomas ROBERTS [6763] and Hannah WEBB [6764], on 16 Apr 1854 in Trinity Church, Adelaide, South Australia. (Elizabeth Ann ROBERTS [6759] was born on 22 Jun 1834 in Cornwall, England, died on 21 Oct 1917 in Narridy, South Australia and was buried in Crystal Brook Cemetery, South Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

1854 SA Marriage 21/87 SMART Robert, ROBERTS Elizabeth Ann, Adelaide