| Name |
Edmund Burke Smith |
| Birth |
12 Aug 1878 |
Kansas  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
29 Jun 1880 |
Carl Township, Adams County, Iowa [2] |
- Charles Smith, White, Male, 38, Head, Married, Farmer, born in Illinois, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Emily M. Smith, White, Female, 35, Wife, Married, Keeping House, born in Connecticut, Father born in Connecticut, Mother born in Vermont
Jessie Smith, White, Female, 10, Daughter, Single, attended school, born in Iowa, Father born in Illinois, Mother born in Connecticut
Anna M. Smith, White, Female, 7, Daughter, Single, attended school, born in Iowa, Father born in Illinois, Mother born in Connecticut
Lucretia Smith, White, Female, 4, Daughter, Single, attended school, born in Iowa, Father born in Illinois, Mother born in Connecticut
Emily Smith, White, Female, 4, Daughter, Single, attended school, born in Iowa, Father born in Illinois, Mother born in Connecticut
Ed Smith, White, Male, 1, Son, Single, born in Kansas, Father born in Illinois, Mother born in Connecticut
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| Census |
9 Jun 1900 |
Lulu Township, Mitchell County, Kansas [3] |
- Charles Smith, Head, W, M, Aug 1841, 58, M, 33, Illinois, New York, New York, Farms own farm
Emlie N Smith, Wife, W, F, June 1845, 54, M, 33, 7 children born,, 6 living, Connecticut, Connecticut, Massachusetts
Jessie Smith, Daughter, W, F, Mar 1870, 35, S, Iowa, Illinois, Connecticut, teacher at school
Edwin B Smith, Son, W, M, Aug 1878, 21, S, Kansas, Illinois, Connecticut, Farm Laborer
Grace Smith, Daughter, W, F, Nov 1882, 17, S, Iowa, Illinois, Connecticut
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| Census |
25 Apr 1910 |
Lulu Township, Mitchell County, Kansas [4] |
- Edward B Smith, Head, M, W, 31, M1, 1 10/12, Kansas, Illinois, Connecticut, farms own farm
Ethel Smith, Wife, F, W, 29, M1, 1 10/12, one child born and living, Kansas, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, none
Roger C Smith, Son, M, W, 10/12, S, Kansas, Kansas, Kansas
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| Anecdote |
- After his marriage to Ethel, Edmund farmed near Beloit KS on land owned by his father who had homesteaded the property. His father sold the farm in 1918, and Edmund and Ethel and their growing family relocated first to Neosho, MO, and shortly thereafter to Carterville, MO, to a small acreage and very modest house. Edmund's children remember him as a bookish and artistic man who had painted scenery and persons on the Beloit farm house walls, who enjoyed reading literature to his children, and who insisted his children wash up before dinner and be prepared to partake in discussions at the dinner table about events of the day, or the book they were currently reading. He selected his own middle name in recognition of the noted British parliamentary orator Edmund Burke, whose patriotic speeches he admired. Although they judged him not a skilled farmer, his children remember him as an able gardener and this talent served the family well after they moved to Carterville. During their school years in Carterville his children remember he was fond of taking them fishing on overnight outings in the nearby countryside, but they also remember he was often away from the family working on the railroad, or on farms to the west in Kansas. The family had a horse and pretty carriage in Carterville and never owned a car. Carterville was at that time a played-out mining town offering few prospects for day labor. When his children had nearly all graduated from high school, his wife Ethel moved to her brother's farm in Eldorado, KS, to care for her elderly mother and while she was in Kansas, Edmund obtained a night watchman's job in Hanford, WA. A few months after taking up his new job, he became ill with pernicious anemia and moved to live with his daughter Eugenia Beatrice and her husband Curtis Case and their family, in Temple City, CA. After the passing of her mother in Kansas, Ethel joined him there and both lived out their retirement years in a small home remodeled for them by their sons Roger and Maitland on Jean's property in Temple City. Edmund was a tall, thin man like his own father, and medicated for his anemia after he retired. His anemia may have been related to celiac disease (a genetic intolerance of dietary gluten common in people of English and Irish descent, which often results in anemia, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and excessive fatigue). His daughter Irene suffered from Crohn's Disease, a malady which appears in families with celiac disease, and two of his grandchildren are gluten intolerant
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| Anecdote |
12 Sep 1918 |
Beloit, Mitchell County, Kansas [1] |
- Ed B Smith, of RFD#2, Beloit, Mitchell, Kansas, born 12 Aug 1878, registered for the draft on 12 Sep 1918 at Beloit, Mitchell County, Kansas. He was farming for himself in Beloit. His next of kin was Ethel LaRose Smith, at the above address. He was white, tall, of medium build, with light blue eyes and red hair
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| Witness-Obituary |
- Mrs. Emily Maria Smith passed away at her home on the highway, west of the Masonic cemetery last Saturday, at the age of 82 years, 9 months, and 18 days. Funeral services were conducted at the Schroeder-Gano Chapel, Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock. Born Emily Maria Young, in Windham County, CT, June 19, 1845, the deceased went with her parents to Clinton County, IA, at the age of nine. She was married to Charles Smith, an honorable discharged soldier of the Civil War, who passed away here Feb.21, 1927, on Nov. 29, 1865. Seven children were born to them. One son, Howard, died in infancy. Those surviving are Misses Emily Smith and Grace Smith of Coquille; Mrs. Anna M. Johnson of Coquille; Mrs. Emily Squire of Milwaukie, OR; Mrs. Lucretia Stilley of Salina, KS; and E. B. Smith of Carterville, MO. She leaves also a sister, Mrs. M. J. Leonard of Holstein, IA; and two brothers, W. H. Young of Prescott, IA and Josiah Young of Beatrice, NE; besides 17 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The family lived here for a time and left about 36 years ago. In 1920, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the two daughters who made their home with them, returned to Coquille and lived until called by death, on the tract purchased from R. E. Baker
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| Reference Number |
31833 |
| Death |
5 Nov 1959 |
Los Angeles, California [5] |
| Person ID |
I31604 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1878 - 1959 (81 years)
