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Topic: Mareen D Hurst - Sarah E Smelser Hurst - Densmore
Conf: Norton County Queries, Msg: 107594
From: John Smeltzer (johnsmeltzer@comcast.net)
Date: 11/2/2009 10:06 AM

Looking for any information on this families in Norton County: Hurst, Rundle, Smelser.

I have the following:

Mrs. Sarah (Smelser) Hurst – Resident of This City Forty Years - Dies at Densmore, Kansas

Mrs. Sarah Hurst passed away at the home of her sister, Mrs. N. M. Rundle at Densmore, Kansas, Wednesday, February 25 (1925), the cause of her demise being cancer of the stomach. All that medical skill and loving hands could do, proved of no avail and death came to relieve her of her sufferings. Mrs. Hurst was for forty years a resident of this city, the husband passing away a number of years ago (1911), while they were still residing in the south part of the city. Some time after his going, his wife, who could no longer be left alone, was taken to the home of her sister where she had since resided. Sarah E. Smelzer, oldest child of John and Mary Smelzer, was born in Pulaski County, Missouri in the year 1837. Sometime in the year of '40 the family moved to Atchison County, Missouri, and in 1860 she was united in marriage to Mareen D (Duvall) Hurst. The couple resided in that county until 1876, when they moved into the vicinity of Table Rock, where they only lived for a short time, when they became residents of Humboldt, where for forty years they remained. Mrs. Hurst was especially active and well for her advanced age of 88 years, until her fatal illness came. Funeral services were held in Densmore, and at the request of the deceased, which she had a number of times made, she was laid to rest in the family lot in Whitefield Cemetery. She is survived by one sister, and several nieces and nephews and numerous friends.

March 6, 1925
Humboldt, Nebraska – Richardson County.

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Now, I know that Nancy M Smelser was married to James Rundle b. 1845 Jackson OH. So, I am assuming that Mrs. N. M. Rundle listed in the obit is Nancy and she is widowed. As the obit states the Smelser family came from Pulaski County, Missouri and prior to that they were in Overton County, Tennessee in or near Livingston. The Hurst family hails from Ohio. I'm not very familiar at all yet with the Rundle family. Nancy's father, John Smelser, is buried in Humboldt, Richardson County, Nebraska.