Household Record 511

Res.1/Male/Husb}   Smith, Horace True Family History} Olson
Res.2/Fem./Wife}   Haley, Elizabeth Jane HH Type} Historic household   HH
Address/Location:  
Name(s)} Horace True & Elizabeth Jane Smith
Optional} Ottawa County
Str./Apt.} Sheridan Twp.
City/etc.} Delphos, Kansas
Household Dates:
  Source}     Exa 1915
  Move-In}   Aft 1910
  Move-Out} Aft 1934
Source 1} 1178=1915 KS cen
Source 2} 512 = 1920 USA cen
Source 3} 1178=1925 KS cen
Source 4} 1183=1930 USA cen
Source 5} 1649=1940 USA cen
Last Updated
by} Karen Hancock
Date Updated} 15 Aug 2014
Date Created}    1 Oct 2011
Notes:  In the 1915 Kansas State census, Horace and Elizabeth Smith were living in Sheridan Twp., Ottawa, Kansas.  Their seven children ranged in age from 16 years to 3 years.  Horace was farming.  Their address when he registered for the World War I draft in 1918 was given as Delphos, the town in the center of Sheridan Twp.  By the 1920 U.S. census, Rupert and Ruth had left the household.

In the 1925 Kansas State census, their home was shown as being owned free of a mortgage.  Horace was a grain farmer.  Their daughter Florence was a school teacher.  By the 1930 U.S. census, only their four youngest children remained at home.  Esther was a saleslady in general merchandise, Lester was a farm laborer, and Gertrude was a public school teacher.  Gertrude is also enumerated as living with her sister Florence, and her husband Samuel Bergsten, in the 1930 U.S. census in Logan Twp.

Elizabeth died in 1934.  In the 1940 U.S. census, Horace was the only one living in the household.
Total # of Residents} 9  
Other Residents:
Household  His Last HH} 123  His Next HH} 245
Links => Her Last HH} 123 Her Next HH} 245
  3rd Res.} Smith, Rupert Harold659
  4th Res.} Smith, Ruth Naomi 662
  5th Res.} Smith, Florence Marian 665
  6th Res.} Smith, Esther Alma 667
  7th Res.} Smith, Lester Laverne 669
  8th Res.} Smith, Gertrude Marie (Gertie) 665
  9th Res.} Smith, Dorothy Daisy 674
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