Mary Jane (Fleck) Smith (1909)

BAKER, FLECK, HENRY, PHILLIPS, SMITH

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 3/29/2014 at 07:19:17

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 11, 1909
Page 8

Mrs. Mary Jane Fleck Smith was born January 16, 1833 in Howard county, Missouri and departed this life January 28, 1909, aged 76 years, and 12 days, at the home of her son J. Edwin Smith near St. Charles, Ia.

At the age of fifteen years she united with the Christian church and has lived a faithful member ever since. Although almost an invalid for the past forty years, she was a monument of Christian gratitude and patience. No murmur ever escaped her lips. She was an exemplary Christian, a valued friend, a devoted wife and a patient self-sacrificing mother. At times she suffered great pain during the last years of her life, yet the promise of God ever proved a source of great comfort to her. When the end came, she was assured of a “Finished course, a faith kept and a crown in store.” Patiently and in the quiet of home life she endured and as the end drew near it was a comforting picture to see her rest back in the arms of Him, who had promised, saying “I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am ye may be also.”

In 1851 she was married to William A. Smith. To this union were born seven children, two of whom preceded the mother to the other shore, Leander, who died in infancy and Nettie, who died near Truro in 1905. The husband and father died in 1889 near Indianola, Iowa. Five children are left to mourn her loss. They are Flora A. Henry of Oskaloosa, Ia., Mrs. Alice M. Phillips of Truro, Ia., Mrs. Malissa Baker of Eugene, Ore., Edwin Smith of St. Charles, Ia. and Melvin Smith of St. Charles, Ia.
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Transcriber’s note: Burial was made in the Indianola IOOF cemetery, Warren County, Iowa.

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