Edith Matilda Smear (1890 - 1975)

Born 8 Oct 1890 in Henry,Indiana,United States

Ancestors

Wife of Costa J (Strub) Minnemeyer — married 11 Apr 1906 in Indianapolis,Marion,Indiana,United States

Descendants

Died 16 Feb 1975 at age 84 in Greenwood,Johnson,Indiana,United States

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Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Edith Matilda/SMEAR/

Given Name: Edith

Surname: SMEAR

SECG Matilda

Name: /MINNEMEYER/

Type: 3

Surname: MINNEMEYER

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Birth

Birth:

Date: 08 Oct 1890

Place: ,Henry,Indiana,United States

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Time: 18:27:40

Death

Death:

Date: 16 Feb 1975

Cause: Major Stroke followed by Heart Failure

Place: Greenwood,Johnson,Indiana,United States

Longitude: W86.106667

Latitude: N39.613609

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Religion

Religion: First Christian Church of Bargersville

Place: Bargersville,Johnson,Indiana,United States

Longitude: W86.167778

Latitude: N39.520832

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Occupation

Occupation: Eli Lilly Company

Place: Indianapolis,Marion,Indiana,United States

Longitude: W86.157776

Latitude: N39.768333

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Burial

Burial: Salem Cemetery

Place: ,Johnson,Indiana,United States^[1][2]

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Event

Event: Membership in the Indiana and National Huguenot Society

Date: 1960 until her death

Place: Indianapolis,Marion,Indiana,United States

Longitude: W86.157776

Latitude: N39.768333

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Note

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Fact

Fact: @L1@

Marriage

Marriage:

Date: 11 Apr 1906

Place: Indianapolis,Marion,Indiana,United States

Longitude: W86.157776

Latitude: N39.768333

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Event: Homesteading in Oklahoma

Date: 04 Sep 1906

Place: ,Cimarron,Oklahoma,United States

Longitude: W97.601669

Latitude: N35.889446

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Husband: Costa UNKNOWN

Wife: Edith Smear

Child: Charles Minnemeyer

Pedigree: Biological

Child: Ravena Minnemeyer

Pedigree: Biological

Child: Costa Minnemeyer

Pedigree: Biological

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Marriage:

Date: 21 Apr 1885

Place: Carthage,,Indiana,United States

Longitude: W85.571663

Latitude: N39.738335

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Divorce:

Place: ,,Indiana,United States

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Date: 05 Feb 2012

Time: 14:54:12

Husband: William Smear

Wife: Laura Fletcher

Child: Oscar Smear

Pedigree: Biological

Child: Edith Smear

Pedigree: Biological

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Sources

• WikiTree profile Smear-2 created through the import of Strub Minnemeyer.ged on Sep 2, 2012 by Karen Minnemeyer. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Karen and others.

• Source: S19030620 Title: Index to Marriage Records: 1906 - 1910 Abbreviation: Indiana Marriages Date: 1906-1910 Reference: Type: State Vital Records Data Changed: Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:03:34
• Source: S23593758 Title: Interview of Edith Matilda Smear Minnemeyer Author: Costa Joseph (Joe) Minnemeyer Date: ABT 1964 Reference: Type: Interview Text: CONT NOTE: The Homestead Act of 1862 and later homestead legislation provided the mechanism for transferring federal land to private ownership. The act was applied in Oklahoma after 1889. According to statue, a citizen over twenty-one years of age and head of a family could claim up to 160 acres of surveyed, unclaimed public domain. Title to the land could be established after the homesteader resided on the land for five years, made certain improvements, and paid claim registration fees. After the Civil War, treaties between American Indian nations and the U.S. government rearranged tribal holdings in Indian Territory. Later negotiations removed millions of acres from Native control and placed the land in the public domain. By 1905 all surplus Indian holdings in present Oklahoma had been placed in the public domain and opened to settlement. In 1907 Oklahoma became a state. CONT CONT The following was transcribed from an informal "interview" of Edith by Costa Joseph Minnemeyer. I sat with them during the discussion. My additions and assumptions are in parentheses. CONT "Was 16 years old October 7, 1905. Married April 11, 1906. Left for Indian Territory (Oklahoma "Panhandle" area) on September 4, 1906. Hollis (Charles Hollis Minnemeyer) born in February 1907. CONT Men voted for Statehood. Women not voting yet. CONT Mom's (Edith) home was one of the voting places. CONT Government advertised Indian territory for homesteading. CONT Homesteader's trains made up with reduced transportation rates. CONT You could homestead 1/4 section which was 160 acres and was 1/2 mile square. CONT You could live on the land for two years and then buy it for .25 an acre, or live on it for five years and it was then deeded to you by the government at no cost. CONT Guides took you to see the sections and you could pick out the one you wanted if it had not already been selected by someone else. CONT Service men could subtract their service years from the required five years CONT Grandpa Minnemeyer (probably Charles Henry Minnemeyer) and Uncle Hick Fletcher (probably Edith's maternal Uncle) went out in 1905 and chose their sections. CONT Uncle Hick built his dugout in 1905. Mom and Dad (Costa and Edith) lived in it until their house was built after they got there. CONT Mom (Edith) had never been out of the state (Indiana) nor had ever been away from her mother. They left Ben Davis at 10:00 at night, rode interurban to Indianapolis, walked from interurban station, now the bus station or Blue Cross bulding, to the Union station carrying their suitcases. CONT Their team of mules, household goods and tools, including sod plough, wagon, etc., had already been shipped to Texoma, Oklahoma. At Texoma, wooden hoops were addd to the wagon, over which was stretched heavy canvas, making the wagon into a prairie schooner. The wagon seat was of the spring type. There was a curtain between the driver and the rest of the wagon affording some privacy. CONT It was 40 miles north west from Texoma to their chosen section. CONT Coal was .00 per ton. CONT When leaving she knew she was pregnant but wasn't worried or afraid. It was planned that Grandma (Laura Fletcher Smear) would go out at Christmas. CONT They were on the coach train for four days and four nights. Changed trains at St. Louis and Kansas City. The Kansas City station was plastered with signs to beware of indians and pick pockets. CONT Had morning sickness every morning on the way. CONT Arrived at Texoma in evening. It was a clapboard town with only one row of buildings, unpainted, weathered, board walks, and dirt street. CONT The hotel rooms were formed by 2 by 4's with thin muslin stretched between. The toilet was an outhouse out behind the hotel. Bath facilities consisted of a washbasin and a pitcher of water on a bench just outside the hotel's back door. There were no towels. CONT The flat land stretched as far as the eye could see, unbroken by trees or even scrub brush. The only living thing was the short, curly buffalo grass and even it looked brown and dead. CONT They bought their grocery supplies and loaded their wagon. Everyone in town was there to watch them leave, shouting words of good bye and encouragement. CONT From twenty five to thirty miles apart, the government had built sod houses to be used by travelers as way or rest stations. They were built entirely underground, with steps down and the only thing they contained were wooden bunks built into the wall. CONT The government also dug deep wells pumped by windmills, and put in tanks for travelers to water their stock. CONT Four families went together and dug their well on John Wilson's property. They pooled their finances and had Dad (Costa) write the order to Sears Roebuck for their windmill. As a premium for the order, Sears sent Mom (Edith) a small gold woman's watch. CONT The four families built their houses on the corner of their respective sections so that they would be close together. CONT Uncle Hick's house was a dugout, boarded from the floor to the top of the ground. It was just one big room. In it was a table, regular bed, a folding bed, and four chairs. It had a small "monkey" stove which was somewhat like a four burner laundrystove. The baking oven was a metal drum which was placed between two joints of the stove pipe. The interior of the oven was enclosed within a metal baffle plate containing a flat bottom rack. This permitted the smoke and heat to circulate around the baking part of the oven without actually getting to the food. CONT They had left Texoma early in the morning and arrived home late that same night. The had covered fourty miles, and had stopped only once at a government water station to feed and water their mules and to eat their lunch. CONT They had passed one small ranch which had a few cattle in a corral and then late in the afternoon they had glimpsed, far in the distance, the loping form of a gray wolf. CONT When they arrived the only thing on their mind was rest. CONT The biggest impression of the entire trip was the indian and pick pocket warning signs at the Kansas City station." Object: @O31025036@ Object: @O43300800@ Data Changed: Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:03:34 CREA Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 13:28:10
• Source: S34314632 Title: Karen Edith Minnemeyer Reference: Type: Personal Information Data Changed: Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:03:34
• Source: S39432916 Title: Personal Papers of Edith Matilda Smear Minnemeyer Author: Edith Matilda Smear Minnemeyer Reference: Type: Personal Papers Data Changed: Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:03:34
• Source: S40015904 Title: Certificate of Marriage for Costa and Edith Agency: State of Indiana Date: 11 Apr 1906 Place: Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana Reference: Type: Certificate Data Changed: Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:03:34 CREA Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 14:28:18 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
• Source: S42335896 Title: Information Provided by Edith Matilda Smear Minnemeyer Author: Karen E Minnemeyer Date: BET 1960 and 1974 Reference: Type: Stories Text: CONT Edith was so happy that they had received a beautiful rug for a wedding present because she could put that down on the dirt floor of their Oklahoma home. CONT CONT Edith found Hollis (Charles Hollis Minnemeyer) crawling in their yard toward a very large rattlesnake and she had to kill the snake with her hoe even though she was terrified. CONT CONT When they determined that they were not going to be able to make a living in Oklahoma, Costa sent her and Hollis home. He stayed in Oklahoma to make arrangements for the sale of their animals, tools, equipment, etc. She was seven months pregnant with their daughter when she started home. Getting on the train at the first train station (possibly Kansas City) she stepped on the hem of her dress and tore the front of the skirt portion away from the bodice. The rest of the trip she was terribly embarrassed. Uncle Hollis (Charles Hollis), who would have been around two, was fussy all the way back to Indiana which only added to her embarrassment. Their families did not know she was coming home so there was no one to meet her when she got off the interurban in Ben Davis. It was dark when they arrived. She walked to her mother's home carrying their luggage and Uncle Hollis. She couldn't remember exactly how long it took, but it seemed she would never make it. Data Changed: Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:03:34 CREA Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:28:52
• Source: S60381107 Title: Marriage Certificate, State of Indiana, Marion County Abbreviation: Marriage Certificate Date: 1906 Reference: Type: Certificate Vital Records Note: #N57377485 Data Changed: Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:03:34

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Ben Davis not Bend Davis!

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• Source: S68535936 Title: The Huguenot Society of Indiana Author: Huguenot Socety of Indiana Agency: Huguenot Society of Indiana Date: Yearsbooks: 1960 through 1974 Reference: Type: Yearbook Note: #N4282905 Data Changed: Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:03:34 CREA Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 19:47:43 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3

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Ancestor - Jacques Cossart

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• Source: S82408053 Title: Salem Cemetery; White River Township, Johnson County, India Abbreviation: Salem Cemetery; White River Township, Johnson County, Indiana Reference: Type: Cemetery Records Data Changed: Date: 05 Feb 2012 Time: 15:03:34

Notes

Note N16510200

Edith was a member of the Bargersville Lodge, F. & A. M. Order of Eastern Star. She was also a member of the Huguenot Society, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

She loved maps and had a large collection. On the wall above her kitchen table was a huge World Map that she studied while she ate.

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Note N45460860

Edith filled capsules at Eli Lilly. She retired in 1945 because she had developed allergies to the medications with which she had to work.

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Edith loved maps. She had several she kept in her chair side table and would just pull one out and study it for hours. She also had a hugh map of the United States on the wall above her kitchen table.

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(Medical):Before Christmas in 1974 Edith requested that my mother, Margaret Glassburn Minnemeyer, make sure that all the Grand and Great Grandchildren attend the Minnemeyer Family Christmas because it would be her last one. Two days later (in the early morning) she was found by her daughter, Ravena, Margaret, and Grandson, Ben unconcious in her home. Ravena had called, and receiving no answer, knew something was wrong. Edith never fully recovered and died in a Nursing Home in Greenwood.

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Edith was eligible for membership through her descendance from Jacques Cossart.

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