Sarah Ellen (Sellers) Smith (1835-1910)

SELLERS, SMITH, HAND, ALLEN, GREEN, HORMEL, WATTS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/8/2017 at 23:18:10

From Nevada Representative July 26, 1910 (page 5)

Death of an Old Settler

Mrs. John T. Smith died Monday, July 18 at the family home in Iowa Center, and her funeral was conducted at the Evangelical church in that town on Wednesday by Rev. S. P. Tellford of Maxwell, assisted by Rev. Skogsberg of Iowa Center.

Mary [sic] Sellers was born in Shelbyville, Ilinois, June 1, 1835 and therefore died a the age of seventy-five. She came to Iowa in 1848 with her brother, James Sellers, who located south of the present site of Maxwell. This event of sixty-two years ago was when George Kirkman and William Hand were the only other settler in that neighborhood. At the age of fifteen Miss Sellrs was married to Noah Hand, she being the first woman married in Story county. Mr. Hand died ten years later and in 1862 Mrs. Hand became Mrs. John T. Smith. Mr. Smith survives her, as do also three children by the first marriage, Mrs. John Allen of Maxwell, James Hand of St. Paul and Williams Hand of Vancouver, B. C.; also eight children by the second marriage--Chas. T. Smith and Mrs. Chas. Green, of Des Moines; Harry Freeman Smith, Mrs. Rhoena Harmell and Mrs. Geo. Watts of Iowa Center; Mrs. Jennie Schindler of Tappen, N. Dak.; Warren Smith, of Clark county, Iowa; Thomas Smith of St. James, Minn.