S/O Andrew "Andy" Calvin Smith and Iva "Ivy" Ann (Tanner).
Even though tombstone shows Eugene Smith as being born in "1913", a Marsden School Census, dated 1922, lists his birthdate as being Nov. 22, 1912. School Census listed his father as being "A. C. Smith".
According to a Cleta Hipley, her sister, Dorothy Simpson, has long been their family historian and as such, Dorothy searched for years to find the cemetery her grandfather, A. C. Smith, had described to her as the burial place of his son, Eugene Smith. Dorothy, at the age of 80 yrs. old, traveled to the Gordon Cemetery in the company of her sisters, Cleta Hipley and Juanita Daugherty, to visit the grave of Eugene. They made the heart stone for Eugene's grave and placed it on their visit. Eugene had never had an actual tombstone but his father had talked of the location of the grave and told of how it was encircled by wood with stones piled on top.
Eugene died from complications of appendicitis after drinking water. The sisters have never been able to find a death certificate for Eugene and that's why the birth year is different on the stone than on the school census.
[Source: Cleta Hipley, October 2011]
Even though tombstone shows Eugene Smith as being born in "1913", a Marsden School Census, dated 1922, lists his birthdate as being Nov. 22, 1912. School Census listed his father as being "A. C. Smith".
According to a Cleta Hipley, her sister, Dorothy Simpson, has long been their family historian and as such, Dorothy searched for years to find the cemetery her grandfather, A. C. Smith, had described to her as the burial place of his son, Eugene Smith. Dorothy, at the age of 80 yrs. old, traveled to the Gordon Cemetery in the company of her sisters, Cleta Hipley and Juanita Daugherty, to visit the grave of Eugene. They made the heart stone for Eugene's grave and placed it on their visit. Eugene had never had an actual tombstone but his father had talked of the location of the grave and told of how it was encircled by wood with stones piled on top.
Eugene died from complications of appendicitis after drinking water. The sisters have never been able to find a death certificate for Eugene and that's why the birth year is different on the stone than on the school census.
[Source: Cleta Hipley, October 2011]
S/O Andrew "Andy" Calvin Smith and Iva "Ivy" Ann (Tanner).
Even though tombstone shows Eugene Smith as being born in "1913", a Marsden School Census, dated 1922, lists his birthdate as being Nov. 22, 1912. School Census listed his father as being "A. C. Smith".
According to a Cleta Hipley, her sister, Dorothy Simpson, has long been their family historian and as such, Dorothy searched for years to find the cemetery her grandfather, A. C. Smith, had described to her as the burial place of his son, Eugene Smith. Dorothy, at the age of 80 yrs. old, traveled to the Gordon Cemetery in the company of her sisters, Cleta Hipley and Juanita Daugherty, to visit the grave of Eugene. They made the heart stone for Eugene's grave and placed it on their visit. Eugene had never had an actual tombstone but his father had talked of the location of the grave and told of how it was encircled by wood with stones piled on top.
Eugene died from complications of appendicitis after drinking water. The sisters have never been able to find a death certificate for Eugene and that's why the birth year is different on the stone than on the school census.
[Source: Cleta Hipley, October 2011]
Even though tombstone shows Eugene Smith as being born in "1913", a Marsden School Census, dated 1922, lists his birthdate as being Nov. 22, 1912. School Census listed his father as being "A. C. Smith".
According to a Cleta Hipley, her sister, Dorothy Simpson, has long been their family historian and as such, Dorothy searched for years to find the cemetery her grandfather, A. C. Smith, had described to her as the burial place of his son, Eugene Smith. Dorothy, at the age of 80 yrs. old, traveled to the Gordon Cemetery in the company of her sisters, Cleta Hipley and Juanita Daugherty, to visit the grave of Eugene. They made the heart stone for Eugene's grave and placed it on their visit. Eugene had never had an actual tombstone but his father had talked of the location of the grave and told of how it was encircled by wood with stones piled on top.
Eugene died from complications of appendicitis after drinking water. The sisters have never been able to find a death certificate for Eugene and that's why the birth year is different on the stone than on the school census.
[Source: Cleta Hipley, October 2011]
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