Smith, Mary Jane
1855 - 1913 (58 years)-
Name Smith, Mary Jane Birth 1855 Mount Sterling, Brown, Illinois, USA [1, 2] Gender Female Death 2 May 1913 Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, USA [1] Burial Aft 2 May 1913 Pilot Grove City Cemetery, Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, USA Person ID I5178 The Thoma Family Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
Family 1 Kersey, John F Family ID F2654 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
Family 2 Yarnell, Silas, b. 1 Apr 1842, Palestine Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 8 Apr 1891, Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 49 years) Marriage 27 Aug 1868 Cooper, Missouri, USA [2, 3] Children 1. Yarnell, Ida May, b. 24 Sep 1869, Pilot Grove Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 28 May 1900, Pettis, Missouri, USA (Age 30 years) [natural] 2. Yarnell, Sarah Frances "Sally", b. 4 Feb 1872, Pilot Grove Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 6 Jul 1961, Otterville, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 89 years) [natural] 3. Yarnell, Ira, b. 22 Mar 1876, Pilot Grove Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 13 Dec 1948, Oxnard, Ventura, California, USA (Age 72 years) [natural] 4. Yarnell, Harry, b. 19 Dec 1881, Pilot Grove Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 30 Oct 1954, Arizona, USA (Age 72 years) [natural] 5. Yarnell, Frank Irvin, b. 12 Feb 1884, Pilot Grove Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 18 Jul 1911, Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, USA (Age 27 years) [natural] Family ID F8583 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
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Notes - Mary Ann Smith came to Missouri from Illinois in the company of two brothers. She wed Silas Yarnell in 1868. Possibly the unnamed brothers were pleased to be relieved of the teenaged Mary Ann, as she was married to Silas at a very young age. Silas and Mary Ann's children were; Ida May (b.1869), Sarah Frances (b.1872), Ira (b.1876), Harry (b.1881), and Frank Irvin (b.1884). Frank Irvin's birth is recorded in the Missouri Digital Heritage: Birth and Death Records, and the age of his mother is given as 32, which gives Mary Ann an alternate birth year of 1852. After Silas died in 1891 at the age of 49, of tuberculosis, Mary Ann remarried to John F. Kersey, and moved to Sedalia MO. John Kersey apparently died before Mary Ann, because Mary Ann's MO death certificate gives her marital status as "widow", but I have not been able to find any more information on John. Mary Ann & Silas are buried together and share a stone in the Pilot Grove City Cemetery.
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Sources - [S327] WORLD: Find-a-Grave.
https://www.findagrave.com/ - [S790] WORLD: Family Search, Ancestral File.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/genealogies - [S411] USA: MO: COOPER: Marriages.
https://cooper.mogenweb.org/CooperBitsMar.htm
- [S327] WORLD: Find-a-Grave.