Lucy Willa Evans and Ben Irvine Smith

BEN IRVINE SMITH, son of ETHEL TOPSY IRVINE and GILES HAWKINS SMITH, was born May 2, 1908 in Marshall, Saline, Missouri,⁷³⁷⁷ and died February 1, 2001 in Osceola, St. Clair, Missouri.¹⁰³⁹¹ He is buried in Clark Cemetery, Hermitage, Hickory, Missouri.⁴⁵⁶

He married LUCY WILLA EVANS on September 25, 1948 in Vista La Mesa Christian Church, La Mesa, San Deigo, California.¹²⁷⁵⁹ She was born April 23, 1913,⁵⁶ and died January 27, 2000 in Osceola, St. Clair, Missouri.¹⁰³⁹² She is buried in Clark Cemetery, Hermitage, Hickory, Missouri.⁴⁵⁶

• Descendant Reports
  • Edward Erwin Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ben I. Smith)
  • Jacob Clements Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ben I. Smith)
  • William Campbell Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ben I. Smith)

Military Service

Marriage Announcements and News

Saline County Citizen, October 14, 1948¹²⁷⁵⁹

Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Evans announce the marriage of their daughter, Willa Evans Dyer, to Mr. Ben Irvine Smith on Sept. 25th, 1948 at Vista La Mesa Christian church at La Mesa, California.

Obituaries

Springfield News-Leader, January 29, 2000¹⁰³⁹²

Willa E. Smith, 86

HERMITAGE — Mrs. Willa E. Smith, Hermitage, a retired church secretary, died at 6:47 p.m. Thursday in Sac-Osage Hospital, Osceola.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday in Hermitage Christian Church, Hermitage, with burial in Clark Cemetery under direction of Hathaway-Peterman Funeral Home, Wheatland.

Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Sunday in the church.

Springfield News-Leader, February 2, 2001¹⁰³⁹¹

Ben Irvine Smith, 92

HERMITAGE — Mr. Ben Irvine Smith, Hermitage, a retired truck shop foreman and World War II Army veteran, died at 7:35 a.m. Thursday in Sac-Osage Hospital, Osceola.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Hermitage Christian Church, with burial with military honors, in Clark Cemetery, near Hermitage under direction of Hathaway-Peterman Funeral Home, Wheatland.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
April 30, 19108964	Miami, Saline, Missouri	Giles Hawkins Smith Ethel Topsy Irvine Robert Henry Smith Hallie Owen Smith Ben Irvine Smith
February 14, 19204624	Miami, Saline, Missouri	Benjamin Dyer Irvine Katherine Elizabeth Turley Giles Hawkins Smith Ethel Topsy Irvine Robert Henry Smith Hallie Owen Smith Ben Irvine Smith
April 15, 19302842	San Diego, San Diego, California	Giles Hawkins Smith Ethel Topsy Irvine Robert Henry Smith Ben Irvine Smith
May 8, 19402843	El Cajon, San Diego, California	Ben Irvine Smith Giles Hawkins Smith Ethel Topsy Irvine