Lydia Angeline Chaney Smith (1845-1872)

Lydia Angeline Chaney Smith

Birth

29 Mar 1845

Pike County, Illinois, USA

Death

23 Dec 1872 (aged 27)

Nebo, Pike County, Illinois, USA

Burial

Mason Cemetery

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LYDIA CHANEY SMITH - The wife of William E Smith of Nebo, undertook to kindle the fire by pouring on coal oil. An explosion followed, scattering the oil over her person, and she was so badly burned that she died the next day.
Contributed by Carolyne Conner Puskas to Pike County Illinois Trails website - Pike County Democrat, January 2, 1873

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William Eaton Smith Jr

1841–1914 (m. 1861)

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William T. Smith

John Marion Smith

Tobitha Jane Smith Franklin

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John Marion Smith

Tobitha Jane Smith Franklin

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