Rosa May Lacey was born in Salem, Washington County, Ohio, Nov. 13, 1869 and died in Central City {Iowa}, Aug.
     23, 1900, being 30 years, 9 months and 10 days of age at her death. Rosa came with her parents to Alexandra,
     Nebraska, Feb. 13, 1889 and was married to Mr. Ira D. Smith, in Culbertson, Nebraska, Feb. 13, 1889. The fruit of this
     marriage was four children, two sons and two daughters. Among this number death came to the eldest son in infancy, to
     the daughter Mary, and to the husband and father some five years ago. Mrs. Smith was converted and united with the
     Methodist church at Calaway, Neb., in 1890, moved to Iowa in 1891 and united with the Boulder church, and some five
     years ago united with the Congegational church of Central City. Her faith in Christ has been constant, manifesting to
     the last a patience and trustfulness that comes only through faith in God. She leaves a mother, two brothers, five sisters
     and two children, Rowland E. and Mabel Pearl, to mourn the loss of a daughter, sister and mother. None of the
     relatives from abroad could be present only Mrs. M. A. Barkwill of Clear Lake, S.D., who did not arrive until Saturday
     morning. The funeral was held in the Congregational church Friday at 2 p.m., where a large number of friends and
     neighbors gathered to pay respects and sympathize with the bereaved mother, brothers, sisters and children. Interment
     took place in the Boulder Cemetery, where the husband is buried. [Mrs. M. A. Barkwill would be Margaret Alice Lacy,
     wife of Weston O. Barkwill. They were still in Goodwin, SD in 1900.]

                                                                                Contributed by: Gordon Case