SMITH, Emma W. (White)
Date of death: 30 Dec 1893 – Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 5, 1894,
Volume XXXIV Number 26, page 1 column 1
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Mrs. Emma W. Smith, the mother [mother‑in-law] of Douglas Dobbins, died at her home in Shelbyville last Saturday. Mrs. Smith was forty-six years old. She was buried in that city last Monday.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 5, 1894,
Volume XXXIV Number 26, page 6 column 3
FROM OVER THE COUNTY
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GREENWOOD.
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Douglas Dobbins and family attended Mrs. Dobbin’s mother’s funeral on Sunday at Shelbyville, Ind.
Link to Emma W. (White) Smith’s grave
Note: The Shelby County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1856–1920, referencing Book-12, page 471, records that Douglas Dobbins married Lena K Smith on 24 Dec 1884.
1870 US Federal Census for Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana, records Lena Smith living with her parents, Hubert Smith, born 1820 England, and Emma Smith, born 1842 in Ohio.
Hubert H. Smith married Emma S. White on 2 May 1865 per Indiana Marriages, 1780–1992, citing FHL microfilm 499370.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson