Ida Elner Smith 1868-1946

SMITH, BARHAM, PRICE, JONES

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 2/20/2005 at 09:57:28

Ida E. Smith Passes On At the Postville Hospital

Miss Ida E. Smith, a lifelong resident of this community passed on at Postville hospital Sunday afternoon following a month's illness. She was aged 78 years, two months and 28 days.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Schutte funeral home, with the Rev. J. B. Haddock, pastor of the United Brethren church officiating, and interment was in Smith cemetery, Post township.

Ida Elner Smith was born as the daughter of Davis [David] and Marene (Barham) Smith in Post township on February 21, 1868. Her entire lifetime was spent in this community. At one time she taught in the Lybrand school.

With her parents, Miss Smith moved to a home near Frankville in 1900. Her father passed away in February, 1901, after which she and her mother continued to live there until her mother passed away on May 22, 1931. Soon after this, she went to live with her brother's family and for the past 12 years she has made her home with her niece, Mrs. Arthur Price. In early life she became a member of the Bethel U. B. church.

She is survived by her only brother, Ira E. Smith, and two nephews, Lester and Clinton Smith, all of Postville, and two nieces, Pearl Price of Postville, and Ethelyn Smith of Manchester.

-note: Ida's father, David, was a son of Reuben Smith and a twin to Lucinda (Smith) Jones. Ida's date of death was May 19, 1946.

Postville Herald - contributed by Mary Durr