Emeretta Missouri Bennett 8
AKA: Emaretta Missouri Bennett, Missouri Bennett, Emeretta Missouri Smith,
Emma Smith, Missouri Smith, Missouri M. Smith
Parents: Thomas Howard Bennett (1808-1877) & Rachel Gaither Prather (1811-1899)
Born: 27 Sep 1851, Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana 8
1860 Census: in Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois, living with parents 2 Details
1870 Census: in Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois, living with parents 3 Details
Died: 27 Jul 1911, Bowen, Hancock County, Illinois 8
Marriage:
Husband: John Quincy Smith (Apr 1851 - 9 Nov 1929)
Married: 5 Jun 1874, Adams County, Illinois 1 9
1880 Census: in Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois 4 Details
1890 Census: most census records lost in fire
1900 Census: In Houston Township, Adams County, Illinois 5 Details
1910 Census: in Bowen Village, Chili Township, Hancock County, Illinois 6 Details
1911: Missouri died
Children:
1. Cora Josephine Smith (about 1875-after 1920)
Husband: Frank Elmer Roberts (1867-1920)
2. Ira Daniel Smith (1879-1943)
Wife: Mary Francis Thompson (1885-before 1930)
3. Hurley Oliver Smith (1882-1963)
Wife: Mable Edna [maiden name unknown] (about 1891-after 1920)
4. Leafy E. Smith (1884-after 1900)
5. Bessie M. Smith (1889-1949)
Husband: John Ramey Veach (1889-after 1930)
6. Carl Thomas Smith (1894-1967)
Wife: Esther M. [maiden name unknown] (about 1898-after 1930)
Notes:
1. Ancestry World Tree, Emaretta
Missouri Bennett, ID I9456 in "The Prather Family" compiled by Randy
Jones, last update 29
Jun 2005.
2. Census 1860, Roll 155, p. 1001.
3. Census 1870, Roll 186, p. 208, Image 423.
4. Census 1880, Roll 174, Family History Film 1254174, p. 168C, Enumeration District 11, Image 0338.
5. Census 1900, Roll 235, p. 2A, Enumeration District 110.
6. Census 1910, Roll 290, Part 1, p. 33A
7. Census 1920, Roll 370, p. 9A, Enumeration District 9, Image 719.
8. Fayette Genealogy Page.
9. Illinois Marriages, John Smith & Emeretta M. Bennett.
John D. Reed, in the Ancestry World Tree compilation "Reed's of Southern Indiana" (last updated 8 Sep 2001), states that Emeretta married John William Jacobs before each of them went on to marry again. This seems highly unlikely and I have assumed that it resulted from a confusion among the Bennett sisters rather than a divorce followed by a marriage of Jacobs to his ex-wife's sister.