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My Smith Family
118.Melissa Grace8 Smith (Moses M.7, Jezeriah Q.6, Moses5, Joseph4, Caleb3, Caleb2, Thomas1) was born 04 Jan 1875 in Cass County, Indiana, and died Jan 1964 in Winter, Florida.She married Ulysses Grant Hiatt 13 Oct 1894.He was born 06 Jun 1865, and died 28 Oct 1899 in , Madison Co., IN.
Notes for Melissa Grace Smith:
MELISSA GRACE SMITH:
My birthday is January 4, 1875. I was 83 years in 1958. My Father was a Missionary Baptist Minister who began his service the year I was born. I am the 5th of a family of 11. I was born on my parents wedding anniversary. When my first teacher ask me I said I was born the day they were married. Have learned many valuable lessons since them. I want to tell you some places where we lived during father's ministry. When I was 7 we moved from a farm east of Gas City, to Indian reservation 10 miles north of Marion, Indiana. Where Father serves as pastor of the Indian village Baptist church for 4 years. We lived near the church on a small plot of ground where we had cows and plenty of truck or garden. Also an Indian family named Winters who had several boys who followed in their father's footsteps and drank to excess at such time by brother Eliza and I would go up in our log barn and could see through the cracks when someone met them and tied them to the fence till they sobered up a bit for they were quarrelsome when drinking. Mrs. Winters and 2 year old girl went with Mr. Winters to Lafontaine to do the weeks trading and he got so tanked up she was ashamed to ride home with him and not knowing what would happen then, she threw out a piece of white paper and pretended it was the baby's bonnet and ask him to get it.
She started the horses quickly and left him...poor old Joe plodded along had to pass by our house to get home and was sober enough he was his wife on our porch but went on home. Mrs. Winters stayed on till Mother excused herself to look after the evening chores and while she was gone Mrs. Winters. left and we never knew where she spent the night but soon after dark he knocked at our door and said it's Joe, I want my wife. Father said she is not here Joe. Now Smith, you lie, I see her. I know Joe, she was here but she left while my wife was out and we don't know where she is but he wasn't satisfied, but tried the back door but father assured him he was telling him the truth and he went away. Far as we know she may have spent the night in a shock of fodder. She has a daughter who lived not too far no doubt he would look for her there. This little girl died while we lived there.
The older sister told us mother gave her suck before she went to heaven. Just two experiences of many. I well remember the time when we younger children were left of night when special meetings were in progress and the Indians would race by our house and on up to the church just to disturb the services and sure gave us a scare though they didn't even stop. I went to my first school with the Indian children and one time mother let me stay all night with the Tawtaw girls. Six girls and one brother, Tim. Mrs. Tawtaw was a good friendly lady and told my mother to send over for milk when our cows were dry. So brother Elza 2 years older and I took a gallon bucket to get milk. He insisted on me going to the door ( he was afraid of the girls it seemed ) on the way the dog bit me and gave me a scar on my ankle I'll carry to my grave and on my such jabbering they all did but the dog did not have rabies and so no harm came of it. The Indians were fond of music and had a band stand not too far for our home where they set for practice through the week. The cemetery is back of the church or was, only a wreck is left now. there are plans for a small building near a memorial where visitors can shelter while visiting the old grounds. They have a program each year and my mother C. E. Smith and nephew John Craw were there in 1957 in memory of our Father. We moved 2 miles from the church and school on a farm owned by Pete Peconga. We walked two miles to school. Our teacher was Steve Sherman who lived at Japala. He had offered a prize to the scholar who was present each day and never tardy. So I set my heart on the prize and album with a white kitty on the back but jealousy crept in and some school mates said Mr. Sherman who did wait each A.M. before the last bell to see if I was coming. such is life. He went out to get wood for our big stove but I got the prize O.K. I saw my first church wedding when I was about 10 years old. The same year I was saved. The happy couple, Leander Lawson and Lizzie Brindle our S. S. Supt. daughter. A tall banner for the enrollment etc. was near our class and maybe some small by 4 years younger than I pushed it over the Supt. looked our way in surprise and brother Jesse said Timmie done it, human nature. God bless his memory. I was quite small when I witnessed a wedding at our gate, white woman, Mary Bolen and the man Peconga (an Indian).
They didn't get out of the buggy so I was the necessary witness and held the light. Billy Swayzee and I were baptized in the Mississinewa River by my father, they had to cut the ice. I was 10 years old. The Indiana converts was wanted a running stream and if we mentioned the creek they's say river. Father and I counted up the times we had moved, 20 times. We had an average of moving once a year up to the time I was married. So you can see I had a sweet patient mother to put up with the cleaning so many dirty houses and adjusting herself to different circumstances. When we were on the farm she with my older brothers and quite a little responsibility to keep things going when father was called away so much. There were 8 children who grew to adult hood 4 boys and 4 girls only 5 left now in 1958. Brothers Bert and Jesse and sister Lydia have gone to their eternal rest. Father moved in 1896 to his permanent home in Exeter, MO. where he passed away in 1931. He had quit pastoral work at the age of 70, and was 86 when the Lord called him home. Mother lived 8 years after that time. Brother Bert left us. Sister Lydia and I took care and turns staying with them before father went and Lydia was there at that time. I stayed 2 years after and she came home and was there when Brother Bert passed away. I was called home as my family needed me and I was not there when mother left us in February 1939.
I was married to Grant Hiatt, October 13, 1894. Our married life only five years. Five short years of happy life together. We were blessed with 3 sons. Jesse Earl, August 9, 1895, Walter Howard, December 14, 1896, and Chester Doyte, May 15, 1898. His belief was Brethren and he attended the Old Oasis Church sometimes ( east of Summitville ) He never once asked me to make a change but did say just read the Bible, the result, we both came to the Church a year later, and were baptized in the same river near a noted rock. He was installed in the deacons office the same fall1899. We drove from near Fairmount, Indiana to the old church east of Summitville twice a day on Sundays. We lived on a rented farm the Mike Mittank place where I went as a bride and where he passed away October 28, 1899. Laid to rest in the Vinson Cemetery near Summitville, Indiana. Later I had this verse put on his stone. " Weary and worn he sank into slumber, weary and worn with sickness and pain, years may roll on years without number but he never will suffer again."
When I first went to Kokomo, Indiana we were living on a forty acre farm belonging to father Hiatt. A brother In law, Clint Tomlinson was tending the ground. The house empty so father Hiatt asked if I would like to go our there with the boys. We had been living in Summitville in part of one house I had bought expenses were paid after Grant's passing. We lived there for 12 years. As soon as the boys were old enough they tended the ground and had a nice crop of corn to harvest. Chester looked after that and hauled father Hiatt's part to him. Jesse was in Fairmount Academy and Walter was working for his uncle Clinton. After Grant's passing I kept the boys together until Jesse was in his last year of high school. He stayed at Father Hiatt's to finish and I went to keep house for a cousin, John Deboo, who had a 3 year old son, James. Chester and Walter found work on farms and made John's home theirs until they married. Jesse never married. He came to visit me in Florida ask how I would like it if he should sell his interest in the farm to Walter and buy a place here as I was getting too old to be changing about so much and was I glad to say yes. I had spent 10 years in children and aged peoples home in Indiana and Pennsylvania.
Walter married Nellie Harrell. They were married at her home at Christmas and the snow was so deep I couldn't get there as the trolleys were not running. Walter's had 4 children, George Franklin, Harold Eugene, Robert Lee, and Bernice. Bernice married Orville Wright. They had two sons, Jack and Larry. Bernice passed away March 13, 1945. Jack was 5 years old in April and Larry was 8 months old. I was in Pennsylvania at the time keeping house for an old man, George Root. They had wrote me Bernice was very sick in the Marion Hospital and had gone to the great beyond before I could get here by train. I was 24 miles from Lancaster, PA, but I called at once of reservation and left at 12 P.M. the next day. It was the time of gas shortage or Cameron Root would glady have taken me but no gas. He took me to see a friend of Chester's who had said if I needed a friend he was the man so his son took me. A good neighbor, Ruth Jones helped me pack. I only changed at Columbus, Ohio, at 8 A.M. and right on to Marion.
I called Walter and Jesse and George's wife came for me in her car. It was sad as George and Gene her brothers were in the service. she had sent packages to them shortly before her sickness. After some years Orville Wright, Bernice husband married again and Jackie went to live with them but Walter's didn't want to give Larry up. I am hoping he will be a comfort to them in later years. George married Anna Mae Ressler, they have 3 children, James George, Daniel Ray, and Charley. Eugene married Donna Brown. They have one child, Sandra Lee. They all live near Kokomo, Indiana.
Chester married Veriena Deardorff. I was a witness. They have 7 children, Opal, Ralph, Lois, Lawrence, Vera, Paul and Kenneth. Opal the oldest is home. Ralph lives in Kokomo, Indiana. He married Betty Walker and they have 1 girl, Linda Sue. Loid married James Bates, in Houston, Texas, her second husband in 1953. They have a baby, James Dale and she has an older son, Eugene. Lawrence married Anna Wilson and has 5 children, Larry, Leonard, Dianne, Betty Ann, and Lonnie. They live in Orlando, Florida. Vera married Melvin Freeze, a farmer in PA. They have three children, Connie, Donna and Judy Ann. Paul married Verna Young, they have 4 children, Carol, Michael, Peggy and Neal. They live in Orlando, Florida. Kenneth married Lucille Berkenbine, they have three children, Chester, Gloria, and Glen. They live in Pennsylvania.
My full name is Melissa Grace Smith Hiatt, born January 4, 1875. My husband full name was Ulysses Grant Hiatt, born June 6, 1865. My father's name was Moses Smith and my mother, Patsy Wheeldon, born May 8, 1849.
" I'm living my life a day at a time. The past is forgotten--the future not mine, and tho I may pass--down the Jericho Road, I walk in His shadow and light is my load. I take up my cross as upward I climb. I'm living my life a day at a time."
I have three children, 10 grandchildren, and 27 great grandchildren living. This was written January 24, 1958. Grace Smith Hiatt.
Children of Melissa Smith and Ulysses Hiatt are:
| 138 | i. | Jesse Earl9 Hiatt, born 09 Aug 1895 in Cass County, Indiana; died 15 Jul 1970 in Ohio. | ||
| + | 139 | ii. | Walter Howard Hiatt, born 14 Dec 1896; died Aug 1964. | |
| 140 | iii. | Chester Doyt Hiatt, born 15 May 1898 in Orlando, Orange, Florida; died 03 Mar 1961 in Orlando, Orange, Florida.He married Verenia Deardorff 19 Oct 1915 in Kokomo, Howard County, IN; born 06 Jul 1900 in Howard County, IN; died 18 Jun 1995 in Orlando, Orange, FL. |
| Notes for Chester Doyt Hiatt: Occupation: He was a farmer in Indiana then had a dairy business near Orlando, FL. After his death, the children carried on with the dairy. |
Notes for Jesse Moses Smith:
Margaret Evelyn (Smith) Fleck, Schaefer writes of her father Jesse;
The Polly's had a grocery store on the corner of Albaton. My dad would work in the store in the winter before he was married. Every thing in those days were different from today. The beans were in a barrel and the crackers were on a shelf. My dad it seems had the misfortune of knocking the crackers into the bean barrel. Someone came in the store and saw my father leaning over the barrel. They said Jesse what are you doing? He said Oh, I am just picking the crackers out of the beans. That brought a big laugh.
Palma Zoe (Pullen) Pope wrote this dissertation of our family history in 1956 for a High School American Literature course.
My Grandfather Jesse Moses Smith was born in Marion County, In. in 1879 He came to Sloan as a young man and bought a farm. He courted 7 Monona, County lasses and married the seventh Miss Palma Peterson, he also had seven children so he always claimed 7 as his lucky number.
More About Jesse Moses Smith:
Burial: Albaton, Ia.
Notes for Palma Lena Peterson:
Palma Zoe (Pullen) Pope wrote this dissertation of our family history in 1956 for a High School American Literature course.
Palma Peterson born in 1885 and married Jesse Moses Smith in 1907. Theirs was not an easy life.They started farming in Missouri but when things did nit prosper they moved back to Salix, Iowa and farmed what is now the Ekberg farm. Palma Peterson was a small but strong hard working woman when she married and was always a great help to Jesse. Palma Smith gave birth to 8 children. Roy Smith who would have been the oldest died two days after birth.
More About Palma Lena Peterson:
Burial: Albaton, Ia.
Children of Jesse Smith and Palma Peterson are:
| 141 | i. | Roy Everett9 Smith, born 24 Nov 1908 in Sloan, Ia.; died 26 Nov 1908 in Sloan, Ia.. |
| More About Roy Everett Smith: Burial: Fairview Twp. Cemetery, Monona, Iowa |
| + | 142 | ii. | Irene Beatrice Smith, born 21 Jan 1910 in Albaton, Ia.; died 27 Aug 1998 in Hornick, Woodbury, Iowa. | |
| + | 143 | iii. | Leora Elsie Smith, born 19 Sep 1912 in Exeter, Missouri; died 16 Mar 2006 in Earlville, IA.. | |
| + | 144 | iv. | Lavonne Smith, born 12 Jan 1915 in Sloan, Ia.. | |
| + | 145 | v. | Harriet Mabel Smith, born 24 Oct 1916 in Salix, Ia.; died 07 Jul 2001 in Whiting, Ia.. | |
| + | 146 | vi. | Margaret Evelyn Smith, born 08 Sep 1918 in Salix, Ia.. | |
| + | 147 | vii. | Clara Jane Smith, born 22 Oct 1921 in Salix, Ia.; died 07 Aug 1972 in Whiting, Ia.. | |
| + | 148 | viii. | Robert Denton Smith, born 26 Jul 1927 in Sloan, Ia.. |
121.Olive Pearl8 Smith (Moses M.7, Jezeriah Q.6, Moses5, Joseph4, Caleb3, Caleb2, Thomas1) was born 05 Sep 1881 in Pularki County, Indiana.She married Sidney Lokey Dec 1899.
Children of Olive Smith and Sidney Lokey are:
| + | 149 | i. | Lorene Esther9 Lokey, born 10 Oct 1900 in Purdy, MO; died 02 Aug 1989. | |
| 150 | ii. | Hazel Lokey, born 13 Feb 1904; died Sep 1992 in Redding, Shasta, CA.She married Harold Barnard. | ||
| 151 | iii. | Kenneth Lokey, born 05 May 1907; died 01 Apr 1990 in Wyoming.He married Vera Olson; born 30 May 1908; died Oct 1968 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. | ||
| 152 | iv. | Donald Lokey, born 12 Mar 1911; died 13 Aug 1989 in El Cajon, San Diego, California.He married Theda Tompson 16 Nov 1946. | ||
| 153 | v. | Mildred Lokey, born 16 Jul 1914; died 05 Aug 2000 in Culver City, Los Angeles, CA.She married Berth Wood 30 Jun 1935. | ||
| 154 | vi. | Marguerite Lokey, born 16 Oct 1918.She married James Dye 08 Apr 1938. |
122.Lula Ann8 Smith (Moses M.7, Jezeriah Q.6, Moses5, Joseph4, Caleb3, Caleb2, Thomas1) was born 05 Dec 1885 in Grant County, Indiana, and died Jun 1981 in Tulsa, Tulsa, OK.She married Perry Trantham 03 Sep 1902 in Casswill Missouri.He was born 23 Mar 1882 in Purdy, Missouri.
Notes for Lula Ann Smith:
From Linda Trantham Lipkind
Dear Mark,
We are 2nd cousins.My grandma was Lula (Lou) Smith (Trantham), sister of Jesse Smith.I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we visited Grandma & Grandpa Trantham at least once a week.My father was her oldest child, Verl Trantham.When I was 21 I went to Hawaii to go to graduate school there and spent many of the years between 1963 and 1999 there, with some years in Montana, Florida and California, always returning to Hawaii, until my husband Arnold Lipkind and I moved to Incline Village, Nevada in 2000.
I just spent a goodly amount of time downloading your family book(the Smith portion) and some of the photos on your sister's(?) website.I want to thank you for all the information you have put together in one place.Actually, I downloaded your information in 2002 as well, but notice that you have added a lot.I have been doing my family tree since about 1984 when my daughter Erin needed to have a tree for a school report in the 4th grade.When the internet became a means for researching genealogy, I suddenly got so much I was able to get so much that I had 4 boxes of paper to download and I entered it into Family Tree Maker without putting all the sources.I haven't wanted to put it on the internet till I document all my information.
I've been retired since I moved away from Hawaii and thus have more time to be obsessed with my genealogy.I am currently putting together ring binders for my various lines.Our great-grandfather Rev. Moses Smith has always fascinated me because of the life story he wrote concering the Civil War experiences--his being converted on the battlefield, and then his life as a minister.I am currently interested in researching the Civil War and the battles he and other ancestors were in.I am more interested in human interest stories, migration routes, diaries of wagon trips, letters, photos, etc., these days.I have much of the family names, dates, etc. inputted into the Family Tree Maker.
I am wondering if you have gone further back into the Tinder, Garton, Redding, Wheeldon, etc., and related lines.Do you have information on the various churches the Smiths, Wheeldons, etc. attended?
I have recently emailed Peggy Mitchner Hanes, who descends from Cynthia Lydia Smith and received an email back saying she will send me information.Also, wrote Lavedah Craw, her aunt, another 2nd cousin, who is now 90 years old and still volunteering at the Fairmount Museum in Indiana but have not yet heard from her.In other words, I am finally corresponding with some of my Indiana relatives.I wish I'd learned more from my grandparents and parents before they died.It is fascinating that Grandma (Smith) Trantham traveled to Missouri in a wagon and lived until the space age.I was born Dec. 8, 1941, so we are of the same era.
You may have been the one who emailed me 2 photos of the Smith family a few years back.My sister Mary Ellen Trantham Williford, who lives in Wichita, KS, may have another photo or 2 of the 4 sisters and of my Grandmother's family I downloaded directly into my computer and don't have a personal copy.However, if you are interested, I may be able to get hold of some in the future.I do have a copy of my grandparent;s wedding photo.And recently, I found photos of Rev. Moses Smith with 2 groups of Baptist preachers on the internet under a Barry Co, MO site.There is also website for the Calloways (descending from Zachariah Calloway) that have more information about Rev. Moses Smith.Have you seen it?
This is a bit long, but if you are interested in exchanging further info in the future let me know.I, of course, have more information about my Grandmother Trantham's descendants.However, I have lost track of some of my first cousins so don't know all their history.
Sincerely,
Linda Trantham Lipkind
Thank you Linda
Children of Lula Smith and Perry Trantham are:
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