Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — MRS. JOS. SMITH PASSES AWAY [ARTICLE]

MRS. JOS. SMITH PASSES AWAY

Aged Widow Died at Her Home in Rensselaer Wednesday Morning. * Mrs. Joseph Smith, who had been in very potor health for several months, died at her home on south Van Rensselaer street Wednesday morning at about 6:30. The funeral was held Thursday morning at 11 o’clock at the late residence, services being conducted by Rev. E. W. Strecker of the Methodist church, and the remains taken to White county, near Seafleld, for burial beside her husband, who died only last April. Mjrs. Smith was born in Monroe county. 0., Meh. 5, 1837, and was therefore 83 years of age last March. In 1854 she was united in marriage to Barton Wiley, to which union was born three children, Mrs. Mary Jane Williams of this city, John M. Wiley of Florence, Mont., and William Wiley of Hartford, Mich. Mr. Wiley enlisted and fought in the civil war, dying in the Confederate prison at Andersonville. On Dec. 22, 1866, she was married to Joseph Smith. To this union was born one son, Charles Smith, of Youngstown, 0., who with the three children by her first marriage survive her. Mrs. Smith and her last husband resided at Knlman for a number of years, maving to Rensselaer and buying the property where she died some 10 years ago.