Anjanette "Nettie" (Compton) Smith (1914)

LYON, SMITH

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 1/21/2008 at 18:30:35

The Sterling Bulletin
Sterling, Rice Co, Kansas
Thursday, April 9, 1914

NETTIE (COMPTON) SMITH - Death of Mrs. O F Smith

While in this city for a visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Will Lyon, Mrs. O F Smith. She was taken at 4:36 Sunday afternoon. She had come from Chase the previous Monday and in a short time a bad cold was followed by pneumonia.

Undertaker Six had the body removed to the home Monday morning and on the following afternoon. Rev W L Davis, pastor of the United Methodist church conducted funeral services.

Nettie Compton was born in Madison county, Iowa, where her early life was spent. On March 29th she passed her sixty-ninth birthday. The husband is still living, also five sons and two daughters. For thirty-four years Mr and Mrs. Smith had been residents of Chase and for a long period prominent as members of the Methodist denomination.
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Note: Obituary submitted by Karen Brewer of Polk County, Iowa.
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Coordinator's note: The deceased was 6 years old in the 1850 census and her gravestone says she was born in 1845. There were no settlers in Madison County until April 1846 so either she was not born in Madison County (most likely) or the census and gravestone are both incorrect.

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