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Jane <I>Walker</I> Smith

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Jane Walker Smith

Birth
Caledonia County, Vermont, USA
Death
23 Mar 1912 (aged 78)
Farmington, Davis County, Utah, USA
Burial
Farmington, Davis County, Utah, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.9712951, Longitude: -111.883023
Plot
D-4-3
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Daughter of John Walker & Lydia Holmes

Married Lot Smith 14 Feb 1852 Salt Lake City, Utah

Children, Rhoda Jane Smith Hutchinson, William Lot Smith, Jedediah Heber Smith, Margaret Agnes Palmer, Emily Abigail Smith Hess, Annetta Smith Udy, Alice Smith Robinson, Lucy Effie Smith Palmer

"AUNT JANE" SMITH OF FARMINGTON DEAD
Jane W. Smith, widow of the late General Lot Smith, died of General Debility, Saturday at 1:05 p.m. in Farmington, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Nephi Palmer, where she had made her home for a number of years.

Her husband was killed in Arizona by Indians nearly twenty years ago.

Mrs. Smith was the daughter of John and Lydia Holmes Walker and was born in Peacham, Caledonia county, Vermont, on August 15, 1831, making her over eighty years of age. She was the last survivor of her father's family.

Her mother died when Mrs. Smith was still a young girl they moved to Nauvoo, where she made her home for a short time with the prophet Joseph Smith and family, her father having gone on a mission.

In 1848, she came to Utah with her sister, Mrs. Lucy Kimball, in Heber C. Kimball's company, for whom she drove a span of mules down Emigration canyon.

Feb. 14, 1850, she married to her late husband, and moved to Farmington where she lived up to the time of her death.

Eight children were born to them-six daughters, and two sons of whom four daughters and a son are still living. They are, Mrs. Rhoda J. Hutchinson of Basalt, Idaho, Mrs. Annetta Udy of Burley, Idaho, William Smith of Morgan and Mrs. G.W. and Nephi Palmer of Farmington. She has sixty-seven grandchildren and forty-three great grand children.

Funeral services were held in the Farmington meeting house Wednesday at 2 p.m.

She was laid to rest in the Farmington cemetery beside her husband whose remains were brought from Arizona about twelve years ago.
Daughter of John Walker & Lydia Holmes

Married Lot Smith 14 Feb 1852 Salt Lake City, Utah

Children, Rhoda Jane Smith Hutchinson, William Lot Smith, Jedediah Heber Smith, Margaret Agnes Palmer, Emily Abigail Smith Hess, Annetta Smith Udy, Alice Smith Robinson, Lucy Effie Smith Palmer

"AUNT JANE" SMITH OF FARMINGTON DEAD
Jane W. Smith, widow of the late General Lot Smith, died of General Debility, Saturday at 1:05 p.m. in Farmington, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Nephi Palmer, where she had made her home for a number of years.

Her husband was killed in Arizona by Indians nearly twenty years ago.

Mrs. Smith was the daughter of John and Lydia Holmes Walker and was born in Peacham, Caledonia county, Vermont, on August 15, 1831, making her over eighty years of age. She was the last survivor of her father's family.

Her mother died when Mrs. Smith was still a young girl they moved to Nauvoo, where she made her home for a short time with the prophet Joseph Smith and family, her father having gone on a mission.

In 1848, she came to Utah with her sister, Mrs. Lucy Kimball, in Heber C. Kimball's company, for whom she drove a span of mules down Emigration canyon.

Feb. 14, 1850, she married to her late husband, and moved to Farmington where she lived up to the time of her death.

Eight children were born to them-six daughters, and two sons of whom four daughters and a son are still living. They are, Mrs. Rhoda J. Hutchinson of Basalt, Idaho, Mrs. Annetta Udy of Burley, Idaho, William Smith of Morgan and Mrs. G.W. and Nephi Palmer of Farmington. She has sixty-seven grandchildren and forty-three great grand children.

Funeral services were held in the Farmington meeting house Wednesday at 2 p.m.

She was laid to rest in the Farmington cemetery beside her husband whose remains were brought from Arizona about twelve years ago.


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  • Created by: Schott Family
  • Added: Nov 25, 2007
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23092471/jane-smith: accessed ), memorial page for Jane Walker Smith (2 Aug 1833–23 Mar 1912), Find a Grave Memorial ID 23092471, citing Farmington City Cemetery, Farmington, Davis County, Utah, USA; Maintained by Schott Family (contributor 46932087).