Dau. of John P. Cooper of Lancaster, PA and Juliette Anson of Akron, OH
Obit courtesy of contributor Alice Horner:
Mirror – Democrat, Mount Carroll, Illinois July 11, 1935 Mrs. Etta J. Smith, 83, died Wednesday, July 3, 1935 last week at Freeport. She was born April 5, 1852 at Muscatine, Iowa and married David B. Smith on October 27, 1875 at Oskaloosa, Iowa. (Alice Horner's note: Her parents were John P. and Juliette [Anson] Cooper.) They moved to Mount Carroll where he became circuit clerk and recorder for 16 years. He was a Civil War veteran. After his death she continued the real estate abstract and loan business. She platted and developed a sub-division across from the Carroll County Courthouse in the 1890s which resulted in an old time homestead being transferred into an addition to the city, part of it being the business section and the Frances Shimer School. This was the first development in 50 years and marked the last of the large placement of lots for building purposes. She was the only woman abstractor in the State of Illinois at that time. Surviving are a son, George Porter Smith, of the Journal Standard newspaper, at Freeport, and two daughters, Miss Edna J. Smith and Mrs. E. D.(Eva) Allington, both of Freeport; two step-sons and one step-daughter, all of Mount Carroll.
Obit courtesy of contributor Alice Horner:
Mirror – Democrat, Mount Carroll, Illinois July 11, 1935 Mrs. Etta J. Smith, 83, died Wednesday, July 3, 1935 last week at Freeport. She was born April 5, 1852 at Muscatine, Iowa and married David B. Smith on October 27, 1875 at Oskaloosa, Iowa. (Alice Horner's note: Her parents were John P. and Juliette [Anson] Cooper.) They moved to Mount Carroll where he became circuit clerk and recorder for 16 years. He was a Civil War veteran. After his death she continued the real estate abstract and loan business. She platted and developed a sub-division across from the Carroll County Courthouse in the 1890s which resulted in an old time homestead being transferred into an addition to the city, part of it being the business section and the Frances Shimer School. This was the first development in 50 years and marked the last of the large placement of lots for building purposes. She was the only woman abstractor in the State of Illinois at that time. Surviving are a son, George Porter Smith, of the Journal Standard newspaper, at Freeport, and two daughters, Miss Edna J. Smith and Mrs. E. D.(Eva) Allington, both of Freeport; two step-sons and one step-daughter, all of Mount Carroll.
Dau. of John P. Cooper of Lancaster, PA and Juliette Anson of Akron, OH
Obit courtesy of contributor Alice Horner:
Mirror – Democrat, Mount Carroll, Illinois July 11, 1935 Mrs. Etta J. Smith, 83, died Wednesday, July 3, 1935 last week at Freeport. She was born April 5, 1852 at Muscatine, Iowa and married David B. Smith on October 27, 1875 at Oskaloosa, Iowa. (Alice Horner's note: Her parents were John P. and Juliette [Anson] Cooper.) They moved to Mount Carroll where he became circuit clerk and recorder for 16 years. He was a Civil War veteran. After his death she continued the real estate abstract and loan business. She platted and developed a sub-division across from the Carroll County Courthouse in the 1890s which resulted in an old time homestead being transferred into an addition to the city, part of it being the business section and the Frances Shimer School. This was the first development in 50 years and marked the last of the large placement of lots for building purposes. She was the only woman abstractor in the State of Illinois at that time. Surviving are a son, George Porter Smith, of the Journal Standard newspaper, at Freeport, and two daughters, Miss Edna J. Smith and Mrs. E. D.(Eva) Allington, both of Freeport; two step-sons and one step-daughter, all of Mount Carroll.
Obit courtesy of contributor Alice Horner:
Mirror – Democrat, Mount Carroll, Illinois July 11, 1935 Mrs. Etta J. Smith, 83, died Wednesday, July 3, 1935 last week at Freeport. She was born April 5, 1852 at Muscatine, Iowa and married David B. Smith on October 27, 1875 at Oskaloosa, Iowa. (Alice Horner's note: Her parents were John P. and Juliette [Anson] Cooper.) They moved to Mount Carroll where he became circuit clerk and recorder for 16 years. He was a Civil War veteran. After his death she continued the real estate abstract and loan business. She platted and developed a sub-division across from the Carroll County Courthouse in the 1890s which resulted in an old time homestead being transferred into an addition to the city, part of it being the business section and the Frances Shimer School. This was the first development in 50 years and marked the last of the large placement of lots for building purposes. She was the only woman abstractor in the State of Illinois at that time. Surviving are a son, George Porter Smith, of the Journal Standard newspaper, at Freeport, and two daughters, Miss Edna J. Smith and Mrs. E. D.(Eva) Allington, both of Freeport; two step-sons and one step-daughter, all of Mount Carroll.
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