Dorothy Kent (Wheeler) Smith (1897 - 1963)

Born 8 Sep 1897 in Milton, Rock, Wisconsin, United States

Ancestors

Wife of David William Smith Sr. — married 11 Sep 1921 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas

Descendants

Died 26 Sep 1963 at age 66 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Biography

Dorothy Kent Wheeler, daughter of John Robinson Wheeler and Ida Lillian (Lillian) Rood, was born on the 8 Sep 1897 in Milton, Rock, Wisconsin.^[1]

Dorothy married David William Smith on the 11 Sep 1921 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.

Children of Dorothy and David:

1. David William Smith Jr. 1923-1977

Dorothy passed away on the 26 Sep 1963 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut.^[1]

Obituary

Lillian Rood, daughter of Hosea W. and Elizabeth Monroe Rood, was born Oct. 11, 1870, in Dakota, Wis., and died Jan. 3, 1963, in Dallas, Tex.

As a young girl she was baptized and joined the Milton, Wis., Seventh Day Baptist Church, and later the Boulder, Colo., church of like faith. Graduating from Milton College in 1894 she taught for one year. On July 18, 1895, she was married to John R. Wheeler, son of the Rev. S. R. Wheeler. In 1901 they moved to Boulder, Colo. where she was church clerk for many years. Mr. Wheeler died in 1934, and later Mrs. Wheeler went to Dallas to be near her daughter.

She is survived by her daughter, Dorothy (Mrs. D. W. Smith); one grandson, David W. Smith Jr. of Fairfield, Conn.; her sister, Mrs. S. N. Lowther, Ontario, Calif., and five grandchildren.

A brief service was held in Dallas and later in Boulder, Colo., where services were conducted by Pastor Mynor G. Soper. Burial was at Boulder. Grace Lowther.^[2]

Research Notes

Burial

Date: 27 SEP 1963

Place: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, TX

Education

Place: Bachelor of Arts, Milton College

Religion

Religion: Seventh Day Baptist

Place: Presbyterian

Dorothy's parents, John and Lillian, moved to Palmyra, Wisconsin so John could work as a photographer. Business wasn't good so he moved to Boulder, where his father and mother lived. He worked there as a photographer but then went to work for the railway. Dorothy wasn't actually born in Palmyra but rather, Milton. She moved to Palmyra when she was three weeks old. John was working in Palmyra when she was born, but Lillian was staying with her parents in Milton. She had a pretty hard birth, requiring the use of instruments. She weighed 11 pounds at birth! This is all according to remembrances written by Lillian for Dorothy in the 1950s, and from a contemporaneous diary kept by Lillian.

Died of cancer of the thyroid.

--Mark Smith

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110053647/dorothy-kent-smith : accessed 9 December 2021), memorial page for Dorothy Kent Wheeler Smith (8 Sep 1897–26 Sep 1963), Find a Grave Memorial ID 110053647, citing Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by Jean Jorgensen (contributor 47179150)
2. ↑ (Entry taken from MyFamily.com: They Came From Milton website by Jon Saunders. Extracted from "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 174, No 5, p 16, Feb. 4, 1963).

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile created through the import of Thomas Sheffield Descendants.ged on Dec 21, 2011 by Michael Sheffield