Bessie Smith 1875-1957

SMITH, MILLAGE, NESTER, HAIN, GREER, HANSON

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/23/2019 at 08:06:36

26 December 1957 - The Tipton Conservative

Final rites were held Dec. 14 at Wilton Junction for Bessie Eliza Smith, 82, who died Tuesday in the Community hospital at Elk City, Okla.

The Rev. Robert Dodder officiated. Burial was in the Moscow cemetery.

The former Bessie Eliza Millage was born Jan. 30, 1875 in South Dakota. She married Danial Smith Nov. 12, 1894, in Cedar county.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Will Nester, Marked Tree, Ark.; Mrs. Walter Hain, Moline, Ill.; Mrs. George Greer, Mammoth Springs Ark., and Mrs. Herbert Hanson, Carter, Okla; two brothers, Fred Millage Muscatine and Riley Millage, Moscow; seven grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.