Smith - Jane
Source: Darlington Herald Friday, Jan 11, 1918
Miss Jane Smith, an aged resident of Darlington, died at the home of her grandniece, Mrs. Edith Evans, Sunday Jan 6, Aunt Jane, as she was familiarly known had made her home for a number of years with her sister, Mrs. Hannah Mikels, but for the past year had lived at the home of Mrs. Eavns. She was nearly 86 and had for some time been almost helpless with paralysis. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday morning by Rev. Williams and interment was made at the Odd Fellows cemetery. She was the daughter of Jacob and Nancy Smith and was born near Xenia, Ohio Jan 10, 1832. If she had lived 4 days longer she would have been 86. She was of Quaker descent, her forefathers having come to this country with Wm. Penn in 1682, and settled near Philadelphia. Her grandfather Smith was an intimate friend of Washington and served as Capt. under him during the Revolutionary War. He later moved to Ohio where she was born. In 1832 her parents moved to Indiana, near Thorntown an Indian trading post and later came to Darlington, then just a village. She was one of a family of 8 children all of whom have preceded her in death. -- kbz