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Adam Smull was born in Jul 1836 in Centre County, Pennsylvania to Peter Smull and Mary Waggoner. The family left Pennsylvania in the 1850s and headed to Stephenson County, Illinois.
Mary Moses, daughter of Jacob Moses and Eva Wagner, hailed from Shade, Somerset County, Pennsylvania and was born 24 Mar 1836. The young couple married in Monroe, Green County, Wisconsin on 21 Aug 1859. In 1860, the young couple would be living with his sister Sarah and her husband David Cryder and brother Samuel. Adam, like his father and uncles, was a stone mason. The marriage would be short-lived, though, because Adam died at the young age of 31 on 10 Jun 1868 while living in Stephenson County. They had no children.
Mary never remarried. In 1880, she was a cook in the hotel in Mathias Artley's hotel in Dakota. The 1900 census has her listed as a "capitalist." Funny lady. In 1910 her work is listed as "own income." She visited with relatives from Chicago to Iowa during the intervening years, making many trips to sister Sidnie Hofmeister in Chicago. About 1924, her brother Albert and wife moved in with her. After Albert's death in 1926, she began to decline, suffering a stroke in 1927, and was in care of various relatives in Illinois prior to her death 24 Aug 1929 in Dakota.
The funeral of Albert Clark Moses was held from the residence of his sister, Mrs. Mary Smull, Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev Ivan Obenshain of the Methodist Church. Mr Moses was born in Somerset County, Pa Aug 13, 1850, and was therefore 75 years, 6 months, and 24 days old at the time of his death. He came to Illinois with his people at an early day, his father, Jacob Moses, being a farmer and minister of the United Brethren Church. Albert Moses had been away from this community for many years, but returned about two years ago, he and his wife making their home with Mrs Smull. He had been a sufferer from stomach and liver trouble, and retired on Saturday night as usual but was found dead in bed in the morning of Sunday, March 17.
Freeport Journal Standard March 11, 1926
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