Emma Jane Smith The Wife of Irwin McLain Anderson The Mother of Sherwood Berton Anderson American Novelist and Karl James Anderson American Artist
Anderson’s
beautiful and beloved mother Emma Smith Anderson, born in Oxford, Ohio in 1852.
The family split up after her death in 1895. Photo from “Sherwood Anderson:
Buckeye Museum
Source:
Name: Emma Jane Smith
Born: October 2, 1852,
Oxford, Butler, Ohio, USA
Died: May 10, 1895 216 Spring Street; Clyde Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Spouse: Irwin McLain
Anderson
Parents: William H.
Smith
Margaret Austry
Occupation: Hard Working
Homemaker
Cause of Death:
Consumption
Death Record: VOL: 3
Page 41
Age at Death: YRS: 42
MOS: 8 DYS: 2
FUNERAL: by REV George E. Wilson
216 Spring Street; Clyde Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Religion: Methodist 1st
Religion: Presbyterian 2nd
Find A Grave Memorial# 109036773
Interment: McPherson
Cemetery, Clyde Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Sherwood Anderson A Writer in America Volume 1 by
Walter B. Rideout Introduction by Charles Modlin
Margaret Austry, was
originally from Germany. She was the
daughter of one Henry Austry and was born, probably near Berlin, on September
10, 1830. When she was still a young child,
her parents brought her to the United States.
On December 22, 1851, at age of Cincinnati, for on that day she was
married by a justice of the peace to William H. Smith, possibly an Englishman
and a teacher, who probably lived near Oxford. By this husband Margaret had two
daughters. The first of these, Emma
Jane, who was to become the mother of Sherwood Anderson, was born on October 1,
1852, near Oxford. What-ever William
Smith may have been like, faithfulness was not one of his strong points; in
March of 1854 shortly before the birth of Emma’s sister Mary Ann, and he
deserted his wife “without any cause” and permanently disappeared, leaving his
family without support of her parents.
Sherwood Anderson A Writer in America Volume 1 by
Walter B. Rideout Introduction by Charles Modlin
On July 8, 1857 Margaret Smith petitioned the
Court of Common Pleas of Butler County for a divorce, custody of the children,
“reasonable alimony,” and restoration “to her maiden name Margaret Ostray on
December 4, 1857, the divorce was granted.
Margaret was given exclusive Custody of the Children.
The divorce decree released Margaret to marry
again, and shortly thereafter, on March 29, 1858, she married a Louis Meyers,
who seems to have been a farmer or farm laborer of German extraction, to have
been about two years older than she, and to have lived either in or near Oxford
[Butler] County Ohio. However, though a
year later Margaret bore yet another daughter, also named Margaret, this second
marriage was hardly more fortunate than the first; for it appears that Louis
Myers was killed by a bolt of lightning while standing under a tree.”
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Walter B. Rideout Introduction by Charles Modlin
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The University Press of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 0-209-21530-x Date: 2006
Ohio Obituary Index,
1830s-2009, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center about Emma J Anderson
Name:
Emma J Anderson [Emma J Smith] Birth
Date: abt 1853 Death Date: 10 May 1895 Age at Death: 42 Death Place: Clyde
Spouse: I M Newspaper: Clyde Enterprise, Clyde, Ohio Newspaper Date: 14 May
1895 Newspaper Page: p. 3, col. 5 Years Indexed: 1878-current Newspaper
Repository: Hayes Presidential Library - Fremont, Oh; Hayes Presidential
Library - Fremont, Oh Pending Source
Information: Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s-2009, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential
Center [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Source:
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=OHobit%2c&rank=0&gsfn=Emma&gsln=Anderson&sx=&gs1co=2%2cUSA&gs1pl=38%2cOhio&year=1852&yearend=1895&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_sch=Web+Property&pcat=34&fh=0&h=145993&recoff=11+12
Ohio Obituary Index
Basic
information for person: Last Name:
ANDERSON First Name: EMMA Middle Name: J
Spouse First Name: I M Age at Time of Death: 42 City of Death: CLYDE
Month of Death: 5 Day of Death: 10
Year of Death: 1895 Other Names
There is 1 other family name for this person: 1.)
Last Name: SMITH First Name:
EMMA Middle: J
Newspaper
Source
Web Source Image:
CLYDE ENTER PRISE
MAY 14, 1895 PG 3 COLUMN 5
Emma J.., wife of I.M. Anderson who had been lying
very Ill for several weeks, died at her home on Spring Street on Friday
afternoon, aged forty-two years, eight months, and nine days. The funeral was
held at the house Sunday at three O Clock conducted by REV George E. Wilson;
the burial will be in McPherson Cemetery.
Mrs. Emma Smith Anderson was born October 1, 1852 near
Oxford Butler County Ohio. She united
with the Methodist at Oxford in 1865. On
March 11, 1873, and She married to Mr. I. M. Anderson at the College
Corner. The family moved to Clyde in
March 1884, and in 1891 deceased united with the Presbyterian church at this
place. She was faithful, consistent
Christian. She leaves two Sisters, Mrs.
Theodore Finch, and Mrs. Mary Jones; and mother, husband, five sons and a
daughter.
Mrs. Anderson was a most estimable lady and leaves
very many friends who sympathize with the family in their sad affliction.
Death Record of Emma Jane Smith Anderson
The Marriage
of
Irwin
&
Emma
Married: March 11, 1873 Israel, Preble ,Ohio, USA
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Sherwood Anderson A Writer in America Volume 1 by
Walter B. Rideout Introduction by Charles Modlin
February 26, 1873, Irwin
Anderson, age twenty-seven, and Emma Smith age twenty, were granted a marriage
license by the probate judge of Preble County; and on March 11, they were
united in marriage by the Reverenced Joseph MacHatton, pastor, for a dozen
years of Hopewell Church, at a ceremony in the Faris Home.
Religion—Anderson Family--Presbyterian
Emma Smith Anderson
decided to leave the Methodism for Presbyterianism, for on August 21, 1873, she
was received into the Hopewell Church.
Religion was to be comfort in the difficult years yet to come.
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The University Press of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 0-209-21530-x Date: 2006
Ohio Marriages,
1803-1900 about Emma Smith
Name: Anderson,
Irwin M. Spouse: Smith, Emma Marriage Date: 11 Mar 1873 County: Preble State:
OH Source
Information: Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research. Ohio Marriages, 1803-1900
Source:
Children
Estelle,
Karl James
Irwin
McLain Jr., Ray Maynard, Earl Jason, & Sherwood Berton
Karl, Irwin Jr., Sherwood, Estella, Ray, &; Earl
Find A Grave Memorial# 109036773
Source:
https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid= 109036773
In this picture Sherwood is in Den working above on the wall is the picture of his beloved mother Emma the same one displayed on my blog.
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