Born in Columbus, Ohio. Her father, David Smith, was a native of New Hampshire and a pioneer of Ohio and a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Rhoda Abigail Smith was a Daughter of Judge David Campbell Smith who was associate county judge for common pleas, also publisher of the Columbus Monitor/later Columbus Statesman, clerk of the dead-letter office in DC, 2 separate terms in state legislature. People disagree whether her mother was Rhoda Susan Mitchell or his second wife, Harriet Byron Mitchell, both daughters of James T. Mitchell & Hannah Leach/Leitch. David Campbell Smith was son of John Smith & Elizabeth Campbell. [contr. by member #47445965]
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Entered into the Lord's rest on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 8, 1908, at her home two and a half miles west of Springfield, Ill, Mrs. Rhoda A. S. Gill, relict of the late John W. Gill, Sr., formerly of Wheeling W. Va.
Mrs. Gill was born in Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1820, and was in her eighty-eighth year. She was the third daughter of Judge David Smith, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, and was given by him and through excellent teachers, a fine education, to which was added an unusually bright, active and intelligent mentality. While in early womanhood she enjoyed the privilege of spending several seasons in Washington, D. C., where her father held office under President Polk in the postoffice department, and there she either met personally, or saw and heard, all of the eminent personages of our country of that generation of great men.
On Feb. 22, 1844, at Columbus, Ohio, she was united in marriage to John W. Gill, Sr., then a prominent manufacturer of silk and iron of Wheeling, W. Va. This union was a most happy one. Mr. Gill died at Springfield, Ill, on Oct. 3, 1872, and deceased cherished his memory sacredly.
In 1864 the family removed from Wheeling to Sangamon county, Ill, purchasing a farm on the Beardstown road two and a half miles west of Springfield. Here she spent the remainder of her long, bright, useful, beautiful life. At her country home, Mrs. Gill entertained lavishly for many years, and until declining life forbade. Relatives and friends came from all parts of the United States to visit with her, sometimes staying many weeks to enjoy her company, and old time hospitality. It was a delightful treat to hear her sprightly conversation upon all subjects of a literary or general nature, and her fund of information and knowledge, coupled with its exactness and her ability to quote what had been written upon all manner of subjects, was not only large, whether of former or recent years, but was entertaining and instructive so that there were no dull times in her company. A few years she kept abreast with the development of our county and was a patriot in every sense.
As a letter writer she had many correspondents and was brilliant, witty and highly interesting. Many of her friends insisted that she should produce more substantial tokens of her genius by writing articles for the public generally, but to this she had no inclinations, content always modestly to bask in the love, admiration and appreciation of particular friends.
She was a conscientious and devout believer in and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ from her childhood, unifying with the Methodist church many years ago, and was a member of the Kumler M. E. church of Springfield at the time of her death. In every act she lived the true christian woman, loved by all with whom she came in contact. Her sunny smile and warm welcome greeted all comers and made them think better of themselves and of the rest of mankind. To her immediate family she was ever the center of love and attraction, and her slightest wish was their law. None can recall ever having had a cross word or an unpleasant look from her, and to her home they always turned for new impetus and hope when the world showed dark. A wife and mother in every true sense of the word, she leaves behind her a complete life of love, usefulness and with hope fulfilled her spirit has gone to the Master she sought to follow in all her life.
Her immediate family surviving are her children: Mrs. Mary Gill Caldwell of Wheeling, W. Va.; Mrs. Jennie V. Talbott, John W. Gill and David P. Gill of Springfield, Ill.; Judge Joseph A. Gill of Vinia, Okla., and Charles W. Gill of Galveston, Texas and a brother, David J. Smith of Centralia, Ill.
The deceased was buried in Oak Ridge cemetery at Springfield, Ill., by the side of her beloved husband on Friday noon, Sept. 11, 1908. Funeral serves were held Friday at the family residence amid a company of sorrowing friends and neighbors.
Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 9-16-1908
Rhoda Abigail Smith was a Daughter of Judge David Campbell Smith who was associate county judge for common pleas, also publisher of the Columbus Monitor/later Columbus Statesman, clerk of the dead-letter office in DC, 2 separate terms in state legislature. People disagree whether her mother was Rhoda Susan Mitchell or his second wife, Harriet Byron Mitchell, both daughters of James T. Mitchell & Hannah Leach/Leitch. David Campbell Smith was son of John Smith & Elizabeth Campbell. [contr. by member #47445965]
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Entered into the Lord's rest on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 8, 1908, at her home two and a half miles west of Springfield, Ill, Mrs. Rhoda A. S. Gill, relict of the late John W. Gill, Sr., formerly of Wheeling W. Va.
Mrs. Gill was born in Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1820, and was in her eighty-eighth year. She was the third daughter of Judge David Smith, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, and was given by him and through excellent teachers, a fine education, to which was added an unusually bright, active and intelligent mentality. While in early womanhood she enjoyed the privilege of spending several seasons in Washington, D. C., where her father held office under President Polk in the postoffice department, and there she either met personally, or saw and heard, all of the eminent personages of our country of that generation of great men.
On Feb. 22, 1844, at Columbus, Ohio, she was united in marriage to John W. Gill, Sr., then a prominent manufacturer of silk and iron of Wheeling, W. Va. This union was a most happy one. Mr. Gill died at Springfield, Ill, on Oct. 3, 1872, and deceased cherished his memory sacredly.
In 1864 the family removed from Wheeling to Sangamon county, Ill, purchasing a farm on the Beardstown road two and a half miles west of Springfield. Here she spent the remainder of her long, bright, useful, beautiful life. At her country home, Mrs. Gill entertained lavishly for many years, and until declining life forbade. Relatives and friends came from all parts of the United States to visit with her, sometimes staying many weeks to enjoy her company, and old time hospitality. It was a delightful treat to hear her sprightly conversation upon all subjects of a literary or general nature, and her fund of information and knowledge, coupled with its exactness and her ability to quote what had been written upon all manner of subjects, was not only large, whether of former or recent years, but was entertaining and instructive so that there were no dull times in her company. A few years she kept abreast with the development of our county and was a patriot in every sense.
As a letter writer she had many correspondents and was brilliant, witty and highly interesting. Many of her friends insisted that she should produce more substantial tokens of her genius by writing articles for the public generally, but to this she had no inclinations, content always modestly to bask in the love, admiration and appreciation of particular friends.
She was a conscientious and devout believer in and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ from her childhood, unifying with the Methodist church many years ago, and was a member of the Kumler M. E. church of Springfield at the time of her death. In every act she lived the true christian woman, loved by all with whom she came in contact. Her sunny smile and warm welcome greeted all comers and made them think better of themselves and of the rest of mankind. To her immediate family she was ever the center of love and attraction, and her slightest wish was their law. None can recall ever having had a cross word or an unpleasant look from her, and to her home they always turned for new impetus and hope when the world showed dark. A wife and mother in every true sense of the word, she leaves behind her a complete life of love, usefulness and with hope fulfilled her spirit has gone to the Master she sought to follow in all her life.
Her immediate family surviving are her children: Mrs. Mary Gill Caldwell of Wheeling, W. Va.; Mrs. Jennie V. Talbott, John W. Gill and David P. Gill of Springfield, Ill.; Judge Joseph A. Gill of Vinia, Okla., and Charles W. Gill of Galveston, Texas and a brother, David J. Smith of Centralia, Ill.
The deceased was buried in Oak Ridge cemetery at Springfield, Ill., by the side of her beloved husband on Friday noon, Sept. 11, 1908. Funeral serves were held Friday at the family residence amid a company of sorrowing friends and neighbors.
Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 9-16-1908
Born in Columbus, Ohio. Her father, David Smith, was a native of New Hampshire and a pioneer of Ohio and a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Rhoda Abigail Smith was a Daughter of Judge David Campbell Smith who was associate county judge for common pleas, also publisher of the Columbus Monitor/later Columbus Statesman, clerk of the dead-letter office in DC, 2 separate terms in state legislature. People disagree whether her mother was Rhoda Susan Mitchell or his second wife, Harriet Byron Mitchell, both daughters of James T. Mitchell & Hannah Leach/Leitch. David Campbell Smith was son of John Smith & Elizabeth Campbell. [contr. by member #47445965]
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Entered into the Lord's rest on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 8, 1908, at her home two and a half miles west of Springfield, Ill, Mrs. Rhoda A. S. Gill, relict of the late John W. Gill, Sr., formerly of Wheeling W. Va.
Mrs. Gill was born in Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1820, and was in her eighty-eighth year. She was the third daughter of Judge David Smith, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, and was given by him and through excellent teachers, a fine education, to which was added an unusually bright, active and intelligent mentality. While in early womanhood she enjoyed the privilege of spending several seasons in Washington, D. C., where her father held office under President Polk in the postoffice department, and there she either met personally, or saw and heard, all of the eminent personages of our country of that generation of great men.
On Feb. 22, 1844, at Columbus, Ohio, she was united in marriage to John W. Gill, Sr., then a prominent manufacturer of silk and iron of Wheeling, W. Va. This union was a most happy one. Mr. Gill died at Springfield, Ill, on Oct. 3, 1872, and deceased cherished his memory sacredly.
In 1864 the family removed from Wheeling to Sangamon county, Ill, purchasing a farm on the Beardstown road two and a half miles west of Springfield. Here she spent the remainder of her long, bright, useful, beautiful life. At her country home, Mrs. Gill entertained lavishly for many years, and until declining life forbade. Relatives and friends came from all parts of the United States to visit with her, sometimes staying many weeks to enjoy her company, and old time hospitality. It was a delightful treat to hear her sprightly conversation upon all subjects of a literary or general nature, and her fund of information and knowledge, coupled with its exactness and her ability to quote what had been written upon all manner of subjects, was not only large, whether of former or recent years, but was entertaining and instructive so that there were no dull times in her company. A few years she kept abreast with the development of our county and was a patriot in every sense.
As a letter writer she had many correspondents and was brilliant, witty and highly interesting. Many of her friends insisted that she should produce more substantial tokens of her genius by writing articles for the public generally, but to this she had no inclinations, content always modestly to bask in the love, admiration and appreciation of particular friends.
She was a conscientious and devout believer in and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ from her childhood, unifying with the Methodist church many years ago, and was a member of the Kumler M. E. church of Springfield at the time of her death. In every act she lived the true christian woman, loved by all with whom she came in contact. Her sunny smile and warm welcome greeted all comers and made them think better of themselves and of the rest of mankind. To her immediate family she was ever the center of love and attraction, and her slightest wish was their law. None can recall ever having had a cross word or an unpleasant look from her, and to her home they always turned for new impetus and hope when the world showed dark. A wife and mother in every true sense of the word, she leaves behind her a complete life of love, usefulness and with hope fulfilled her spirit has gone to the Master she sought to follow in all her life.
Her immediate family surviving are her children: Mrs. Mary Gill Caldwell of Wheeling, W. Va.; Mrs. Jennie V. Talbott, John W. Gill and David P. Gill of Springfield, Ill.; Judge Joseph A. Gill of Vinia, Okla., and Charles W. Gill of Galveston, Texas and a brother, David J. Smith of Centralia, Ill.
The deceased was buried in Oak Ridge cemetery at Springfield, Ill., by the side of her beloved husband on Friday noon, Sept. 11, 1908. Funeral serves were held Friday at the family residence amid a company of sorrowing friends and neighbors.
Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 9-16-1908
Rhoda Abigail Smith was a Daughter of Judge David Campbell Smith who was associate county judge for common pleas, also publisher of the Columbus Monitor/later Columbus Statesman, clerk of the dead-letter office in DC, 2 separate terms in state legislature. People disagree whether her mother was Rhoda Susan Mitchell or his second wife, Harriet Byron Mitchell, both daughters of James T. Mitchell & Hannah Leach/Leitch. David Campbell Smith was son of John Smith & Elizabeth Campbell. [contr. by member #47445965]
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Entered into the Lord's rest on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 8, 1908, at her home two and a half miles west of Springfield, Ill, Mrs. Rhoda A. S. Gill, relict of the late John W. Gill, Sr., formerly of Wheeling W. Va.
Mrs. Gill was born in Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1820, and was in her eighty-eighth year. She was the third daughter of Judge David Smith, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, and was given by him and through excellent teachers, a fine education, to which was added an unusually bright, active and intelligent mentality. While in early womanhood she enjoyed the privilege of spending several seasons in Washington, D. C., where her father held office under President Polk in the postoffice department, and there she either met personally, or saw and heard, all of the eminent personages of our country of that generation of great men.
On Feb. 22, 1844, at Columbus, Ohio, she was united in marriage to John W. Gill, Sr., then a prominent manufacturer of silk and iron of Wheeling, W. Va. This union was a most happy one. Mr. Gill died at Springfield, Ill, on Oct. 3, 1872, and deceased cherished his memory sacredly.
In 1864 the family removed from Wheeling to Sangamon county, Ill, purchasing a farm on the Beardstown road two and a half miles west of Springfield. Here she spent the remainder of her long, bright, useful, beautiful life. At her country home, Mrs. Gill entertained lavishly for many years, and until declining life forbade. Relatives and friends came from all parts of the United States to visit with her, sometimes staying many weeks to enjoy her company, and old time hospitality. It was a delightful treat to hear her sprightly conversation upon all subjects of a literary or general nature, and her fund of information and knowledge, coupled with its exactness and her ability to quote what had been written upon all manner of subjects, was not only large, whether of former or recent years, but was entertaining and instructive so that there were no dull times in her company. A few years she kept abreast with the development of our county and was a patriot in every sense.
As a letter writer she had many correspondents and was brilliant, witty and highly interesting. Many of her friends insisted that she should produce more substantial tokens of her genius by writing articles for the public generally, but to this she had no inclinations, content always modestly to bask in the love, admiration and appreciation of particular friends.
She was a conscientious and devout believer in and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ from her childhood, unifying with the Methodist church many years ago, and was a member of the Kumler M. E. church of Springfield at the time of her death. In every act she lived the true christian woman, loved by all with whom she came in contact. Her sunny smile and warm welcome greeted all comers and made them think better of themselves and of the rest of mankind. To her immediate family she was ever the center of love and attraction, and her slightest wish was their law. None can recall ever having had a cross word or an unpleasant look from her, and to her home they always turned for new impetus and hope when the world showed dark. A wife and mother in every true sense of the word, she leaves behind her a complete life of love, usefulness and with hope fulfilled her spirit has gone to the Master she sought to follow in all her life.
Her immediate family surviving are her children: Mrs. Mary Gill Caldwell of Wheeling, W. Va.; Mrs. Jennie V. Talbott, John W. Gill and David P. Gill of Springfield, Ill.; Judge Joseph A. Gill of Vinia, Okla., and Charles W. Gill of Galveston, Texas and a brother, David J. Smith of Centralia, Ill.
The deceased was buried in Oak Ridge cemetery at Springfield, Ill., by the side of her beloved husband on Friday noon, Sept. 11, 1908. Funeral serves were held Friday at the family residence amid a company of sorrowing friends and neighbors.
Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 9-16-1908
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