SMITH, Mary (Disbro)

Date of birth:  1834 – Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 30 Nov 1899 – Union Township, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 8, 1899,
Volume XL Number 22, page 6 column 4

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SAMARIA.

An old pioneer mother gone—Mrs. Mary Smith, a very old and honored lady who lived near Chappel church, died Thanksgiving morning and was buried at Beech Grove cemetery, Dec. 2, 1899. Rev Hammons, pastor of Sa­maria Christian preached an able and ap­propriate discourse.

Link to Mary (Disbro) Smith’s grave

Notes: Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 75 that Charles A. Smith married Mary Disbrow [sic] 8 Jul 1862.

Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Health Officer’s Record Number 5, page 233 records that Mary Smith died from tuberculosis of one year’s duration at 12:00 on 30 Nov 1899 in Union Township, Johnson County, Indiana, aged sixty-five-years, nine-months, 16-days-old. She was female, white and a widow. Her father’s name was Isaac Disbro and her mother’s maiden name Elizabeth Barrett. Their birthplaces were unknown. Mary was buried in Beech Grove Cemetery on 2 Dec 1899, undertaker W. S. Adams of Morgantown, Indiana.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson