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

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1855 - Mount Sterling, Brown, Illinois, USA Marriage - 27 Aug 1868 - Cooper, Missouri, USA Death - 2 May 1913 - Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, USA Burial - Aft 2 May 1913 - Pilot Grove City Cemetery, Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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