Memorial placed in this cemetery based on the following obituary.
Published in The Rochester (IN) News-Sentinel
Thursday, February 13, 1941
A telegram from Lloyd SMITH, postmaster at Amherst, S. D., to his uncle, A. E. BABCOCK, gives the news of the death of Mr. Smith's mother, Mrs. Alfaretta J. SMITH, at his home, at seven o'clock, February 13.
Mrs. Smith was the widow of William E. SMITH. Her parents were George H. and Suzanna (ONSTOTT) BABCOCK. She was born in Fulton county in the Ebenezer neighborhood, January 22, 1862.
The family moved from Peru, Ind., to South Dakota in 1913. She had been, for many years a sufferer from arthritis, the last few being spent in a wheel chair.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the old Ebenezer church before her removel to South Dakota.
Besides her son, Lloyd, with whom she lived, the following remain to mourn her loss, two daughters, Mrs. Lon LEAVELL, Peru, and Mrs. Bessie EVERETT, Detroit, Mich.; and sons, Lee [SMITH] of Oregon, and Dallas [SMITH], Whiting, Ind.; eighteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren, and two brothers, James R. BABCOCK, Marion, Ind., and Andrew E. BABCOCK of Rochester.
Burial will be made in Amherst by the side of her husband.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1941
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester (IN) News-Sentinel
Thursday, February 13, 1941
A telegram from Lloyd SMITH, postmaster at Amherst, S. D., to his uncle, A. E. BABCOCK, gives the news of the death of Mr. Smith's mother, Mrs. Alfaretta J. SMITH, at his home, at seven o'clock, February 13.
Mrs. Smith was the widow of William E. SMITH. Her parents were George H. and Suzanna (ONSTOTT) BABCOCK. She was born in Fulton county in the Ebenezer neighborhood, January 22, 1862.
The family moved from Peru, Ind., to South Dakota in 1913. She had been, for many years a sufferer from arthritis, the last few being spent in a wheel chair.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the old Ebenezer church before her removel to South Dakota.
Besides her son, Lloyd, with whom she lived, the following remain to mourn her loss, two daughters, Mrs. Lon LEAVELL, Peru, and Mrs. Bessie EVERETT, Detroit, Mich.; and sons, Lee [SMITH] of Oregon, and Dallas [SMITH], Whiting, Ind.; eighteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren, and two brothers, James R. BABCOCK, Marion, Ind., and Andrew E. BABCOCK of Rochester.
Burial will be made in Amherst by the side of her husband.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1941
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Memorial placed in this cemetery based on the following obituary.
Published in The Rochester (IN) News-Sentinel
Thursday, February 13, 1941
A telegram from Lloyd SMITH, postmaster at Amherst, S. D., to his uncle, A. E. BABCOCK, gives the news of the death of Mr. Smith's mother, Mrs. Alfaretta J. SMITH, at his home, at seven o'clock, February 13.
Mrs. Smith was the widow of William E. SMITH. Her parents were George H. and Suzanna (ONSTOTT) BABCOCK. She was born in Fulton county in the Ebenezer neighborhood, January 22, 1862.
The family moved from Peru, Ind., to South Dakota in 1913. She had been, for many years a sufferer from arthritis, the last few being spent in a wheel chair.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the old Ebenezer church before her removel to South Dakota.
Besides her son, Lloyd, with whom she lived, the following remain to mourn her loss, two daughters, Mrs. Lon LEAVELL, Peru, and Mrs. Bessie EVERETT, Detroit, Mich.; and sons, Lee [SMITH] of Oregon, and Dallas [SMITH], Whiting, Ind.; eighteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren, and two brothers, James R. BABCOCK, Marion, Ind., and Andrew E. BABCOCK of Rochester.
Burial will be made in Amherst by the side of her husband.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1941
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester (IN) News-Sentinel
Thursday, February 13, 1941
A telegram from Lloyd SMITH, postmaster at Amherst, S. D., to his uncle, A. E. BABCOCK, gives the news of the death of Mr. Smith's mother, Mrs. Alfaretta J. SMITH, at his home, at seven o'clock, February 13.
Mrs. Smith was the widow of William E. SMITH. Her parents were George H. and Suzanna (ONSTOTT) BABCOCK. She was born in Fulton county in the Ebenezer neighborhood, January 22, 1862.
The family moved from Peru, Ind., to South Dakota in 1913. She had been, for many years a sufferer from arthritis, the last few being spent in a wheel chair.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the old Ebenezer church before her removel to South Dakota.
Besides her son, Lloyd, with whom she lived, the following remain to mourn her loss, two daughters, Mrs. Lon LEAVELL, Peru, and Mrs. Bessie EVERETT, Detroit, Mich.; and sons, Lee [SMITH] of Oregon, and Dallas [SMITH], Whiting, Ind.; eighteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren, and two brothers, James R. BABCOCK, Marion, Ind., and Andrew E. BABCOCK of Rochester.
Burial will be made in Amherst by the side of her husband.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1941
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
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