Wife of John Smiley, who she married on November 6, 1847 in Marine City, Michigan. They had no birth children together, but raised eight adopted children to maturity.
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MARY MARGARETTA SMILEY
Born Jan. 5th, 1828, died Nov. 25, 1898.
Mary Margaretta Smiley was born at Marine City, Mich.
She was the daughter of Judge James Barton Wolverton, of that city. She taught school from the age of fourteen until she was married Nov. 6, 1847 at Marine City, Mich. to her now aged soldier husband Lieutenant John A. Smiley, who survives her.
They came to Iowa City in April 1855. She was of a family of five brothers and two sisters, all of whom have gone to their long home, except Mrs. Elizabeth Keating of Chicago, Ill, and Samuel Wolverton of Detroit, Mich., who was connected in business with the late Eber B. Ward, a noted ship builder on the Great Lakes and who left an estate of over $7,000,000.
Mother Smiley's long house life was not blessed with any children of her own although the care of little ones was always a pleasure to her, as well (as she believed) a sacred duty. She raised by the help of her aged husband, to manhood and womanhood, eight adopted children from a tender age--Coralista A. and Frank H. Smiley; three adopted nieces, Grace A. Wolverton, now the wife of Ex-Senator Carpenter of Louisa county, Iowa, Miss Ella G. Wolverton, Lilian M. Wolverton, wife of Banker Popejoy, of Popejoy, Iowa, and two nephews, John F. Wolverton, who died in the prime of his young manhood a few years ago in Chicago, Ill, and Samuel L. Wolverton.
After the death of her lamented, adopted nephew, John F. Wolverton, she immediately adopted her husband's niece Harriet Smiley, the wife of Dr. Horton of Sanborn, Iowa.
These children, now grown to splendid manhood and womanhood, were her earthly jewels. They loved her as dearly as children could love their own mother. She in turn showed her devotion and motherly care and love to them each by giving them the best education our schools could afford--two of them, Miss Ella G. Wolverton and Frank H. Smiley, having been graduated from the State University of Iowa.
On Friday, November 25, at ten o'clock at night the death angel came; the vigil-keepers of the night were heard to say "Tread lightly and speak low, for mother is dying." Mother Smiley died as she lived--in the full faith of an Allwise Being, in whom she had trusted from her early childhood.
(Obit in the Iowa City Weekly Republican, Iowa City, IA, Wednesday, December 14, 1898, page 7)
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MARY MARGARETTA SMILEY
Born Jan. 5th, 1828, died Nov. 25, 1898.
Mary Margaretta Smiley was born at Marine City, Mich.
She was the daughter of Judge James Barton Wolverton, of that city. She taught school from the age of fourteen until she was married Nov. 6, 1847 at Marine City, Mich. to her now aged soldier husband Lieutenant John A. Smiley, who survives her.
They came to Iowa City in April 1855. She was of a family of five brothers and two sisters, all of whom have gone to their long home, except Mrs. Elizabeth Keating of Chicago, Ill, and Samuel Wolverton of Detroit, Mich., who was connected in business with the late Eber B. Ward, a noted ship builder on the Great Lakes and who left an estate of over $7,000,000.
Mother Smiley's long house life was not blessed with any children of her own although the care of little ones was always a pleasure to her, as well (as she believed) a sacred duty. She raised by the help of her aged husband, to manhood and womanhood, eight adopted children from a tender age--Coralista A. and Frank H. Smiley; three adopted nieces, Grace A. Wolverton, now the wife of Ex-Senator Carpenter of Louisa county, Iowa, Miss Ella G. Wolverton, Lilian M. Wolverton, wife of Banker Popejoy, of Popejoy, Iowa, and two nephews, John F. Wolverton, who died in the prime of his young manhood a few years ago in Chicago, Ill, and Samuel L. Wolverton.
After the death of her lamented, adopted nephew, John F. Wolverton, she immediately adopted her husband's niece Harriet Smiley, the wife of Dr. Horton of Sanborn, Iowa.
These children, now grown to splendid manhood and womanhood, were her earthly jewels. They loved her as dearly as children could love their own mother. She in turn showed her devotion and motherly care and love to them each by giving them the best education our schools could afford--two of them, Miss Ella G. Wolverton and Frank H. Smiley, having been graduated from the State University of Iowa.
On Friday, November 25, at ten o'clock at night the death angel came; the vigil-keepers of the night were heard to say "Tread lightly and speak low, for mother is dying." Mother Smiley died as she lived--in the full faith of an Allwise Being, in whom she had trusted from her early childhood.
(Obit in the Iowa City Weekly Republican, Iowa City, IA, Wednesday, December 14, 1898, page 7)
Wife of John Smiley, who she married on November 6, 1847 in Marine City, Michigan. They had no birth children together, but raised eight adopted children to maturity.
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MARY MARGARETTA SMILEY
Born Jan. 5th, 1828, died Nov. 25, 1898.
Mary Margaretta Smiley was born at Marine City, Mich.
She was the daughter of Judge James Barton Wolverton, of that city. She taught school from the age of fourteen until she was married Nov. 6, 1847 at Marine City, Mich. to her now aged soldier husband Lieutenant John A. Smiley, who survives her.
They came to Iowa City in April 1855. She was of a family of five brothers and two sisters, all of whom have gone to their long home, except Mrs. Elizabeth Keating of Chicago, Ill, and Samuel Wolverton of Detroit, Mich., who was connected in business with the late Eber B. Ward, a noted ship builder on the Great Lakes and who left an estate of over $7,000,000.
Mother Smiley's long house life was not blessed with any children of her own although the care of little ones was always a pleasure to her, as well (as she believed) a sacred duty. She raised by the help of her aged husband, to manhood and womanhood, eight adopted children from a tender age--Coralista A. and Frank H. Smiley; three adopted nieces, Grace A. Wolverton, now the wife of Ex-Senator Carpenter of Louisa county, Iowa, Miss Ella G. Wolverton, Lilian M. Wolverton, wife of Banker Popejoy, of Popejoy, Iowa, and two nephews, John F. Wolverton, who died in the prime of his young manhood a few years ago in Chicago, Ill, and Samuel L. Wolverton.
After the death of her lamented, adopted nephew, John F. Wolverton, she immediately adopted her husband's niece Harriet Smiley, the wife of Dr. Horton of Sanborn, Iowa.
These children, now grown to splendid manhood and womanhood, were her earthly jewels. They loved her as dearly as children could love their own mother. She in turn showed her devotion and motherly care and love to them each by giving them the best education our schools could afford--two of them, Miss Ella G. Wolverton and Frank H. Smiley, having been graduated from the State University of Iowa.
On Friday, November 25, at ten o'clock at night the death angel came; the vigil-keepers of the night were heard to say "Tread lightly and speak low, for mother is dying." Mother Smiley died as she lived--in the full faith of an Allwise Being, in whom she had trusted from her early childhood.
(Obit in the Iowa City Weekly Republican, Iowa City, IA, Wednesday, December 14, 1898, page 7)
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MARY MARGARETTA SMILEY
Born Jan. 5th, 1828, died Nov. 25, 1898.
Mary Margaretta Smiley was born at Marine City, Mich.
She was the daughter of Judge James Barton Wolverton, of that city. She taught school from the age of fourteen until she was married Nov. 6, 1847 at Marine City, Mich. to her now aged soldier husband Lieutenant John A. Smiley, who survives her.
They came to Iowa City in April 1855. She was of a family of five brothers and two sisters, all of whom have gone to their long home, except Mrs. Elizabeth Keating of Chicago, Ill, and Samuel Wolverton of Detroit, Mich., who was connected in business with the late Eber B. Ward, a noted ship builder on the Great Lakes and who left an estate of over $7,000,000.
Mother Smiley's long house life was not blessed with any children of her own although the care of little ones was always a pleasure to her, as well (as she believed) a sacred duty. She raised by the help of her aged husband, to manhood and womanhood, eight adopted children from a tender age--Coralista A. and Frank H. Smiley; three adopted nieces, Grace A. Wolverton, now the wife of Ex-Senator Carpenter of Louisa county, Iowa, Miss Ella G. Wolverton, Lilian M. Wolverton, wife of Banker Popejoy, of Popejoy, Iowa, and two nephews, John F. Wolverton, who died in the prime of his young manhood a few years ago in Chicago, Ill, and Samuel L. Wolverton.
After the death of her lamented, adopted nephew, John F. Wolverton, she immediately adopted her husband's niece Harriet Smiley, the wife of Dr. Horton of Sanborn, Iowa.
These children, now grown to splendid manhood and womanhood, were her earthly jewels. They loved her as dearly as children could love their own mother. She in turn showed her devotion and motherly care and love to them each by giving them the best education our schools could afford--two of them, Miss Ella G. Wolverton and Frank H. Smiley, having been graduated from the State University of Iowa.
On Friday, November 25, at ten o'clock at night the death angel came; the vigil-keepers of the night were heard to say "Tread lightly and speak low, for mother is dying." Mother Smiley died as she lived--in the full faith of an Allwise Being, in whom she had trusted from her early childhood.
(Obit in the Iowa City Weekly Republican, Iowa City, IA, Wednesday, December 14, 1898, page 7)
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