From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" <iggy29@scican.net>

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Subject: OBITUARY - NANCY (POE) SMITH.

Date: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:25 PM

Decatur County Journal

January l9, l90l

'Old Settler Gone'

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MRS. NANCY SMITH, an early settler in Iowa and Decatur County, died

Saturday at the home of her daughter, MRS. T.J. WATSWORTH, in Caldwell,

Kansas, from paralysis which attacked her the previous Wednesday. The

remains were brought to Leon Sunday and the funeral services held the

following day at the home of her daughter, MRS. W.R. MOORE. Burial was

at Palestine by the side of her husband, who met accidental death in a

mill in l873, just 28 years to a day from the time his aged partner

suffered the stroke of paralysis which ended in death. Rev. Joseph

Stephen has kindly furnished the following obituary.

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The subject of this memoir, NANCY POE SMITH, was born in Bourbon County,

Kentucky, July l7, l8l9, and died at Caldwell, Kansas, January l2, l90l,

aged 8l years, 5 months and 25 days. In l824 she left her "Old Kentucky

home" for Greencastle, Indiana. In l848 she moved to Iowa but in the

following year returned to Indiana. In the year l85l, she moved again

to Oskaloosa, Iowa, thence to Decatur County, Iowa. On September l4,

l838, she was united in marriage to THOMAS SMITH. Eight children were

born to this union, seven of whom remain to mourn her loss--W.R. SMITH,

Decatur County; MARY M. WADSWORTH, Sumner County, Kansas; SARAH J. MOORE

and MARGARET MCKERN, Leon; JOHN F. SMITH, NANCY M. GIBSON and THOMAS W.

SMITH of Oklahoma, besides thirty grandchildren and six great

grandchildren.

She endured the privations of pioneer life in a patient and submissive

spirit and every duty of life was met in a cheerful manner. She was a

devoted wife and an affectionate mother, and she had an implicit faith

in the goodness and mercy of God.

In the guileless years of her youth, at the age of l5, she was converted

to God and united with the M.E. Church, of which church she remained a

faithful member until the day of her death.

Her remains were brought to Leon and the funeral service was conducted

at the home of her daughter, MRS. SARAH J. MOORE, by the Rev. Joseph

Stephen, Pastor of the M.E. Church, after which she was tenderly laid

away beside her partner of many struggles in the Palestine Churchyard.

She sleeps the sleep of the just.

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Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert

July 6, 200l

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