Minnie Caroline Smith (1894 - 1932)

Born 14 Jun 1894 in Chapin, Howell, MO

Ancestors

Wife of Will Knox Yates — married 29 Jun 1917 in West Plains, Howell, MO

Descendants

Died 13 Apr 1932 at age 37 in Olympia, Thurston Co., Washington

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Name

Name: Minnie Caroline /Smith/

Source: #S-2112823435

Source: #S-2112823325

Source: #S-2112823227

Source: #S-2112823195

Data:

Text: Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Indexed by Ancestry.com from microfilmed schedules of the 1930 U.S. Federal Decennial Census. Data imaged from National Archives and Records Administration. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. Bordeaux, Thurston, Washington, ED 2, roll 2521, page 2B, image 15.0.

Source: #S-747756188

Page: Year: 1930; Census Place: Bordeaux, Thurston, Washington; Roll: 2521; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 2; Image: 15.0.

Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1930usfedcen&h=112817535&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

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Data:

Text: Birth date: abt 1895Birth place: Residence date: 1930Residence place: Bordeaux, Thurston, Washington

APID: 6224::112817535

Name: Minnie /Yates/

Source: #S-2112823195

Data:

Text: Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census. [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2002. Indexed by Ancestry.com from microfilmed schedules of the 1930 U.S. Federal Decennial Census.1930 United States Federal Census. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Data imaged from National Archives and Records Administration. 1930 Federal Population Census. T626, 2,667 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Bordeaux, Thurston, Washington, ED 2, roll 2521, page 2B, image 15.0.

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Minnie Caroline /Smith/.

Birth

Birth:

Date: 14 JUN 1894

Place: Chapin, Howell, MO

Source: #S-2112823325

Source: #S-747756188

Page: Year: 1930; Census Place: Bordeaux, Thurston, Washington; Roll: 2521; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 2; Image: 15.0.

Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1930usfedcen&h=112817535&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

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Data:

Text: Birth date: abt 1895Birth place: Residence date: 1930Residence place: Bordeaux, Thurston, Washington

APID: 6224::112817535

Death

Death:

Date: 13 APR 1932

Place: Olympia, Thurston, WA

Source: #S-2112823325

Residence

Residence:

Date: 1930

Place: Bordeaux, Thurston, Washington

Source: #S-747756188

Page: Year: 1930; Census Place: Bordeaux, Thurston, Washington; Roll: 2521; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 2; Image: 15.0.

Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1930usfedcen&h=112817535&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

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Data:

Text: Birth date: abt 1895Birth place: Residence date: 1930Residence place: Bordeaux, Thurston, Washington

APID: 6224::112817535

Occupation

Occupation:

Place: Homemaker

Education

Education:

Date: BEF 1920

Place: Certified schoolteacher

Source: #S-2112823302

Note

Note: In a phone call on 8 Dec. 1997 Allen Chapin told me that my laugh sounded just like "Aunt Minnie". During this same phone call Allene also said that her sister's son has a 4 ft. picture of Col. Torrey and some of the people who worked at his farm in Fruitville, and she thought maybe Minnie would be in the picture. She said that one time there were awards given out to some of the employees and that Minnie was voted to be the "best bread baker", and her sister Della was voted "most beautiful". Allene told me too that she remembered Minnie playing Santa Claus for the little children one year. I thought she meant that she just gave out the gifts, but Allene told me that she had on the red outfit and everything.

Minnie had her Missouri teaching credentials as a third grade teacher, but did not teach school after she married Will Yates. It may have been that her teaching credentials weren't of any use when she got to Washington state, or they had just been obsolete. I would like to know if she ever did teach when she was in Missouri.

She died of botulism poisoning after eating some unheated home-canned corn from the jar. Her sister Mirtha came out for her funeral and found out that the doctor could have given her the antidote for the poisoning, but he thought it was too expensive, and so he didn't do it. Minnie thought she just had the flu and a sore throat. Allene Chapin said her mother told her that Minnie kept asking for some Vicks for her neck thinking that would relieve the soreness. A bill for her hospitalization in 1932 showed that for her 2 day stay at St. Peter's hospital it cost $1500.

My dad would talk about how his mother could hold her own in a debate about what was in the bible. Apparently, she knew the bible quite well. I am not sure she always followed the same religion that her mother would have liked her to though. I have a letter written by Mary Yates a few years before Minnie died and she was upset that Minnnie might be going to a church other than the one she was brought up in.

I really don't know all that much about my Grandma. Of course, I would ask my Dad about her, and he would always try to answer my questions, but I suppose he didn't notice the little things about her, like if she would sing around the house, or liked to rock in a chair, or if she held her fork a certain way. By the time I started asking questions all the people who knew her were either gone or not living near me.

Note: Minnie and William Yates were married by O. N. Barnett, Minister of the Gospel and the witnesses were Mrs. J. W. Yates and Mrs. O.N. Barnett.

Note: Minnie Caroline Smith Yates

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Marriage

Husband: Will Knox Yates

Wife: Minnie Caroline Smith

Child: William Gale Yates

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: Robert Guy Yates

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: Waldo Knox Yates

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Marriage:

Date: 29 JUN 1917

Place: West Plains, Howell, MO

Source: #S-2112823435

Husband: Harvey Lawson Smith

Wife: Mary Elizabeth Pentecost

Child: Jasper Owensby Smith

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: James Speed Smith

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: William Thomas Dee Smith

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: Della Elizabeth Smith

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: Mirtha May Smith

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: Eli T. Smith

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: Minnie Caroline Smith

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Marriage:

Date: 5 AUG 1874

Place: TN

Source: #S-2112823402

Source: #S-2089725543

Page: Birth year: 1855; Birth city: Jackson Co; Birth state: TN.

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Data:

Text: Birth date: 2 January 1855Birth place: Jackson Co, TNDeath date: 29 March 1899Death place: West Plains, Howell County, MOMarriage date: 5 August 1874Marriage place: TN

APID: 4725::3376472

Sources

Source S-2089725543

Repository: #R-2009299244

Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records

Author: Edmund West, comp.

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

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APID: 4725::0

Repository R-2009299244

Name: Ancestry.com

Address: 360 West 4800 North, Provo, UT 84604

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Source S-2112823195

Title: 1930 United States Federal Census

Note: Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930

www.ancestry.com

Source S-2112823227

Title: Letter from Mary Elizabeth Pentecost Smith YATES 1928

Note: Fair

Carol Wilkerson files

Source S-2112823302

Title: Certificate of completion

Note: The certificate is in my records--CJW

Source S-2112823325

Title: Tombstone for Minnie C. Smith YATES

Note: Masonic Cemetery, Tumwater, WA

Source S-2112823402

Title: Obituary for Mary Elizabeth Pentecost Smith YATES

Author: Meagsville, MO Sentinal

Publication: Paper no longer published

Note: Carol Wilkerson files

Source S-2112823435

Title: Marriage Certificate for Will K. YATES & Minnie Caroline SMITH

Author: Howell County, Missouri

Note: Good

Carol Wilkerson files

Source S-747756188

Repository: #R-2009299244

Title: 1930 United States Federal Census

Author: Ancestry.com

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626

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APID: 6224::0