Person:Nancy Jones (9)

!RESIDENCES:

*1914 - Blakesburg, IA
*1921 - Blakesburg, IA

!MARRIAGE:

*A history of Shelby Co, IA; published abt 1914 (copied pages with Gary Treat)

p. 1377 (Senator Thomas Henry Smith article); says 1851 in Davis Co, IA

*Data from Jeanne Fowler online at the WorldConnect Project of Rootsweb.com;

says 1 Apr 1852 at Davis Co, IA

!BIOGRAPHY:

*from obit: "To this union [with Paris S Smith] were born 13 children, two of

whom died in infancy, one in his teens and three after arriving at maturity, leaving seven yet living - Mrs Elizabeth More, Unionville, Iowa, Thos H Smith, familiarly known as Tobe, of Harlan, Iowa, Mrs Lucy S Railsback, of Billings, Montana, Mrs Mattie Caylor, Centerville, Iowa, now in Los Angeles, Cali, Jacob Smith, Nyssa, Oregon, W L Smith, Bismarck, North Dakota, and Mrs Kate Abegg, Blakesburg, Iowa. She also leaves twenty-one grandchildren and fifty-two great-grandchildren. . . . besides the rearing of their own children, she raise her deceased daughter's son, Sammy Jay, now a successful business man of Los Angeles, Cali."

*7 of 13 children were living in 1914, including: Mary E More, Thomas H Smith,

Jacob Smith, J Kate Abegg

1. ↑ .

   
   *Census: 1850, IA, Davis Co, Marion Twp, page 274, family #40 (indicates abt
   1832)
   *Census: 1860, IA, Davis Co, Marion Twp, page 690, family #220 (indicates abt
   1832)
   *Census: 1870, IA, Davis Co, Marion Twp, page 115, family #68 (indicates abt
   1833)
   *Census: 1880, IA, Davis Co, Marion Twp, E.D. 40 sheet ?14, page ?7, family
   #128 (indicates abt 1833)
   *Census: 1910, IA, Wapello Co, Adams Twp, Blakesburg, E D ?29 sheet 2a, page 2
   family #34, Paris S Smith household (indicates abt 1833), listed as "Nancy J
   Smith" mother of 13 with 7 living
   *Census: 1920, IA, Wapello Co, Adams Twp, Blakesburg town, Main St, E.D. 141
   sheet 1, page 1, family #3 (indicates abt 1833)
   *Iowa Cemetery Records online at Ancestry.com, part of a WPA cemetery project;
   says 1832, listed as "Nancy Smith"
   *Data from Jeanne Fowler online at the WorldConnect Project of Rootsweb.com;
   says 13 May 1832 at Campbell Co, VA
   *Obituary of Nancy J Smith, "Blakesburg Review", Blakesburg, IA, Tuesday, 13
   Nov 1923 (photocopy from Evelyn Rockwell); says " . . . born in West Virginia
   May 13, 1832 . . . "

2. ↑ .

   
   *Per telephone call to Ottumwa [IA] Public Library (8/97); says 1923
   *Iowa Cemetery Records online at Ancestry.com, part of a WPA cemetery project;
   says 1923
   *Data from Jeanne Fowler online at the WorldConnect Project of Rootsweb.com;
   *Obituary of Nancy J Smith, "Blakesburg Review", Blakesburg, IA, Tuesday, 13
   Nov 1923 (photocopy from Evelyn Rockwell); says " . . . died in Blakesburg,
   Iowa, November 10, 1923, aged 91 years, 5 months and 27 days."

3. ↑ .

   
   *Per telephone call to Ottumwa [IA] Public Library (8/97);
   *Iowa Cemetery Records online at Ancestry.com, part of a WPA cemetery project;
   *Obituary of Nancy J Smith, "Blakesburg Review", Blakesburg, IA, Tuesday, 13
   Nov 1923 (photocopy from Evelyn Rockwell); says "An impressive funeral service
   was held at her home in Blakesburg Monday afternoon . . . "