Horace Alonzo & Emeline (Smith) Anson

SMITH, ANSON, EDWARDS, WILLARD, STATLER

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Date: 9/10/2019 at 15:56:50

From the 1912 book Past and present of Marshall County, Iowa, Vol 2, page

HORACE ALONZO ANSON.
Mr. Anson was married on September 17, 1854, to Emiline Smith, a native of Ohio and the daughter of Patrick Henry and Margaret (Edwards) Smith, both natives of New York, from which state they moved to Ohio in a very early day and lived
there until January, 1854, when they moved to Marshalltown, Iowa, a few years later moving to Delaware county, where Mr. Smith's death occurred, after which his wife returned to Marshalltown, where she spent the rest of her life.

The paternal grandparents of the subject's wife, Calvin and Pattie Smith. also of the state of New York, were early settlers in Ohio. They were natives of Massachusetts. The father died in Ohio and the mother's death occurred in Marshalltown, Iowa, while on a visit. She was eighty years of age.

The maternal grandfather, John Edwards, a native of near Ithica, New York, was a Welshman. He moved with his family to Ohio.

Eight children, five of whom died in infancy, were born to Horace A. Anson and wife, the following three reaching maturity: Fred, who now lives in Chicago; Adella, who married Frank Willard, died in 1899, leaving two children; Anson, then a baby three months old and is now twelve years old, lives in South Dakota; Frank, Jr., lives in Kidder county, North Dakota. Ida B. Anson, who married E. W. Statler, lives in Des Moines, her husband being now deceased; two children were born to them, Margaret R., born in 1889, and Sarah E., born in 1904.