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Martha Pickerill Smith

22 Jul 1859 – 26 Sep 1940

Birth	22 Jul 1859
Death	26 Sep 1940
Cemetery	Wheeler Grove Cemetery Macedonia , Pottawattamie County , Iowa , USA
Added by	barbara/bonnie on 04 Jun 2007
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19647468

Bio

Mills County Tribune Monday, September 30, 1940 Mother of Maude Smith Delvan Dies in Omaha Mrs. Martha Pickerill Smith, 81, pioneer resident of southwest Iowa and mother of Maude Smith Delavan, author of "Rumelhearts of Rampler Avenue," died Thursday evening at her home in Omaha, Nebraska. Mrs. Smith, widow of George M. Smith, pioneer contractor and builder, lived for fifty years in communities in the county, in Macedonia, Tabor, Red Oak and Malvern. She moved to Omaha in 1929. Surviving is her only daughter, Mrs. Nelson Delavan, and a granddaughter, Mrs. Max Wainwright, of Omaha, and a great grand son, Neil Wainwright. Funeral services were in Omaha, at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, and in Wheeler's Grove, east of Macedonia in the Christian church at 3 p.m., with burial being made in the cemetery there, Mrs. Smith was well known to many Mills county residents with whom she became acquainted during her years of residence at Malvern and Tabor. obit courtesy of Linda B (#47272982)

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Family

Parents

• Orpha Bowen Pickerill 1820–1881
• George Edward Pickerill 1821–1876

Spouse

• George Marion Smith 1859–1939 FaG

Siblings

• Benjamin F. Pickerill 1845–1924
• William John Pickerill 1847–1931
• Nancy Ann "Annie" Pickerill Morgan 1849–1921
• George Washington Pickerill 1852–1938
• Jane Lamira "Jannie" Pickerill Benedict 1855–1920
• Sarah Adaline "Addie" Pickerill Burkhalter 1861–1925

Children

• Guy Stephen Smith 1885–1888 FaG
• Maude Marie Smith Delavan 1887–1951 FaG
• Nellie Blanche Smith 1893–1897 FaG

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