ROSA ESTELA SMITH

ARNOLD, BARNHART, SMITH, HOLMES, REDLINGSHAFER, GREER

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 4/17/2008 at 18:31:19

ROSA ESTELA SMITH

Rosa Estela Arnold, sixth child of Edward and Sophia (Barnhart) Arnold,
was born March 31, 1870, in Dallas Township, Marion County, Iowa.

When she was 2, her family moved to Lucas County, living in Liberty
Township until 1875, then they moved to Benton Township, where she grew
up and was educated. With her family, she attended Mt. Carmel United
Evangelical Church.

On Nov. 28, 1888, when she was 18, Estela married a neighbor boy, George
Washington Smith, age 22, a son of Josiah and Sarah (Pitts) Smith.

During 10 years of marriage, the Smiths had two children, Eva Edna and
Walter George. The family tenant farmed in Benton Township, and was
living on the McCurdy place (later the Irwin and Ethel Myers farm) when
Estela died on 2 March 1898, less than a month before her 28th birthday.
She was buried in Salem Cemetery.

In addition to her husband, children and parents, Estela was survived by
seven siblings: Mandaville Arnold, Edward Morris Arnold, Mrs. William H.
(Phoebe) Holmes. Mrs. George D. (Harriet) Redlingshafer, Mrs. Greer
(Fanny) Redlingshafer, Mrs. John F. (Della) Anderson and James Walter
Arnold. She was preceded in death by a brother and a sister, Mortimer
and Kitty Arnold.

George and his children later moved to a farm near Griswold in Cass
County, Iowa, and George still was living on a farm in that area when he
died during May of 1941. He was buried in a nearby cemetery, Flint,
located in Pottawattamie County.

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