Individual Details

Logansport Pharos-Reporter (Logansport, Indiana), Thursday, November28, 1918, Image at ancestry.com, has this note:
"Mrs. Anna Hopper is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Martha Rees, ofBunker Hill."

Logansport Pharos-Reporter (Logansport, Indiana), Thursday, December26, 1918, image at ancestry.com, has this note:
"Marion McDowell and Mrs. Martha Rees of Bunker Hill and Ray McDowelland family of Kokomo, spent Christmas Day with John McDowell andfamily."

Kokomo Tribune (Kokomo, Indiana), Saturday, August 9, 1952. Image atancestry.com.
"Mrs. Martha Smith
Bunker Hill (Tribune Area Special) - Mrs. Martha McDowell Smith, widowof Winton [sic] Smith, a resident here, died shortly after noon Fridayin Dukes Memorial Hospital, Peru, where she had been taken following astroke suffered on Monday. She would have been 90 years old had shelived until November.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Bunker HillMethodist Church of which she was a member. The body is at the GlazierFuneral Home where friends may call. It will be taken to the church tolie in state for an hour before the service.
The nearest surviving relatives are several nieces and nephews."

The same paper on Monday, August 11, 1952, had this:
"Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Smith, 90, of Bunker Hill, widow ofWinston Smith, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday from the Bunker HillMethodist Church, the Rev. Glen Campton officiating. Burial will be inSpringdale Cemetery, Bunker Hill.
Mrs. Smith died at Dukes Hospital Friday afternoon after a severaldays' illness of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Surviving are several lnieces and nephews. She had spent her entirelifetime in Bunker Hill. She was a member of the Bunker Hill MethodistChurch and the Order of the Eastern Star, Peru."

Birth	Nov 1862	Indiana
Census	1 Jun 1870	P.O. Bunker Hill, Pipe Creek Twp., Miami Co., IN, pg. 18; Martha McDonel [sic], 7 (1862-63) born IN.
Census	1 Jun 1880	Pipe Creek Twp., Miami Co., IN, ED 121 pg. 19; Martha McDowell, daughter, 17 (1862-63), born IN father born PA mother born OH. There is something in the column for someone sick or temporarily disabled, but it isn't legible.
Marriage	16 Nov 1889	Miami Co., Indiana - Abraham REES
Census	1 Jun 1900	Bunker Hill Village, Pipe Creek Twp., Miami Co., IN, ED 108 Sh. 1B; Martha M. Rees, wife, born Nov 1862, 37, married 10 yr., mother of 1, 0 living, born IN father born PA mother born OH.
Census	15 Apr 1910	Bunker Hill Town, Pipe Creek Twp., Miami Co., IN, ED 135 Sh. 5A; Martha M. Rees, wife, 46 (1863-64), marriage one of 20 yr., mother of 0, 0 living, born IN father born PA mother born OH.
Census	1 Jan 1920	Bunker Hill Town Ward 3, Pipe Creek Twp., Miami Co., IN, ED 146 Sh 3B; Martha M. Rees, head, 57 (1862), widow, born IN father born PA mother born OH, Basket maker - basket factory. Brother Marion living with her.
Marriage	Sep 1924	Est. Miami Co., IN - Winston SMITH
Census	1 Apr 1930	Bunker Hill, Pipe Creek Twp., Miami Co., IN, ED 24 Sh 6A; Martha Smith, wife, 67 (1862-63), 27 at first marriage, born IN father born PA mother born OH.
Death	8 Aug 1952	Peru, Miami Co., Indiana
Burial	Aft 8 Aug 1952	Springdale Cemetery, Pipe Creek Twp., Miami Co., IN
Reference No		10103

Spouse

Abraham REES (1858 - 1918)

Spouse

Winston SMITH (1865 - 1936)

Father	David MCDOWELL (1825 - 1904)
Mother	Nancy CHILDRESS (1828 - 1916)
Sibling	David Anthony MCDOWELL (1850 - 1937)
Sibling	Henry P. MCDOWELL (1852 - 1904)
Sibling	Anna E. MCDOWELL (1855 - 1944)
Sibling	Mary Alice MCDOWELL (1857 - 1870)
Sibling	Laura Alice MCDOWELL (1860 - )
Sibling	Marion W. MCDOWELL (1862 - 1928)
Sibling	John Jackson MCDOWELL (1871 - 1927)