Eve Prose was married to John Smith on April 12, 1812 in Cora, Gallia, Ohio. She was the daughter of Paul Prose. Eve was born in Alsace-Lorraine. She is buried in Salem Cemetery, Gallia County, Ohio.The character of John Smith and Eve Prose were in direct contrast. She appeared as a sweet and kindly person. The news of her death did not reach her children and family in Illinois until several months after her demise, but so great was their love for this old lady, that descendats and friends alike, joined in tribute to her memory, the like of which I never heard of before or after. At the Hickory Withe cemetery, four and one half miles directly west of Hayes, Illinois, or rather in the yard separating the cemetery and the school building,the services were held. The summer heat was very oppressive, therefore outside services were held. Long posts were cut, and set into post holes, to make uprights, and over the top was built a trellis. Over this trellis was thrown branches of green trees with their leaves, so as to form a canopy to throw off the intense heat of the summer sun. Beneath this canopy many people bowed their heads in grief while a minister delivered a eulogy to Eve Prose Smith, dead and buried several months ago in far away Gallia county, Ohio.
Her obituary is as follows:
The deceased had passed beyond the limit of three score and ten years, had reached a ripe old age, had attained full maturity in this life and was taken home, as a shock of corn fully ripe. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 39 years, and a mother of twelve children. She even addressed them in the tenderest and gentlest manner, always possessing the most perfect control over them. Her wish was their law. Never was gentleness and firmness more beautifully blended than in her. Never can her place be filled in the sphere in which she moved, and never can she be forgotten by those who were blessed with her friendship.