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Mary Ellen ""Nell"" Longdon Smead
22 Jul 1865 – 19 Apr 1929
| Birth | 22 Jul 1865 |
| Death | 19 Apr 1929 |
| Cemetery | Cuba Cemetery Monroe County , Iowa , USA |
| Added by | cooke on 19 Jun 2014 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131530196 |
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From 'Higbee News dated April 25, 1929 A FORMER HIGBEE LADY DEAD----Mrs. Nellie Raincaddy dies at her home in Hiteman Iowa from blood poisoning---Mrs. Nellie Sneed-Raincaddy, a former well known resident of Higbee, but who had resided in Iowa for 25 years or more died at her home in Hiteman, that state on Friday April 19th , from blood poisoning, resulting from an injury to a bunion. Deceased was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Longdon Sr. and was born in Kewaunee, Illinois , July 24, 1865 and came to this state with them in her young girlhood. She was twice married, her first husband being John Smeed, who was killed some ten or fifteen years ago in a mine accident in Iowa and she was married a few years later to A.J. Raincaddy, who survives her as do five daughters and three sons, thirty-eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She is also survived by four sisters, Mrs. Lee Lloyd of Illinois, Mrs. Thos Garrington Hiteman Iowa and Mrs. John Goin and Mrs. John Rockett of this place and two brother, Thos and Will Longdon of this place. From 'The Higbee News" dated April 25 1929--- Mrs John Goin returned tuesday from Hiteman Iowa where she was called Friday by the death of her sister, Mrs. Ellen Raincaddy. She says that people in this section do not know anything about the rain and the mud. Rain fell in Torrents , she says all the time she was away and that the mud was so deep that it was all that four horses could do to pull the vehicles to the cemetery. Mary 2nd marriage information on husband. John Lacey (Leslie?) (A. J. Raincaddy) Ronchetti on 10/11/1921 Justice of the Peace in Kirksville Adair County MO. He was born 20 Jul 1869 Italy and died 10/10/1945 Pleasantville Hospital Pleasantville Iowa. He is buried at St Peters Cemetery, Lovilla, Monroe County, Iowa. Knoxville Express, Thursday Oct. 11 1945; John Rofchetti (Yes this was how it was spelled in the paper!) John Rofchetti, a former resident of Knoxville and Lovilla, died at the Dr. Bell hospital in Pleasantville yesterday, aged past 80 years. The deceased was employed as a summer janitor for the Rev. Father Paul C. Albers, at the St. Anthony church, and also tended the fires in cold weather at the sale barn. Funeral and burial will be at Lovilla. From Bybee & Davis Funeral Home ; we provided part of the services after Mr. Ronchetti's death. We, the current owners, did not own the funeral home in 1945, but we do have some of the records from that time. Here is the information we have:Born 7/20/1869 in Italy, Died 10/10/1945 from pneumonia as a result of smoke inhalation from a house fire, He was widowed at the time of his death; his wife's name was Mary Allen (Smead) Ranchetti. He worked as a coal miner, his personal items were signed for by John Smead. Apparently all our funeral home did was prepare the body to be shipped. It looks like we may have taken him to Zimmerman Funeral Home (no longer in business) in Lovilia where they performed the services and burial.
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- Rose E Carter 1883–1945
- Fred Edward Mincks 1887–1975
- Mary Mable Smead Carlo 1888–1955
- Elizabeth ""Lizzie"" Smead Gretten 1890–1945
- John Smead Jr 1892–1960
- Mrs Agnes Susanna "Aggie" Smead Golden 1894–1951
- Nettie Smead Mincks 1896–1958
- Dewey Noble Smead 1898–1913
- George Washington Smead 1901–1979
- James Elmar Smead Sr 1904–1981
- Juley Smead 1906–1911
- Nellie Smead 1910–1911
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