This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fouts--Smithers Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zk.2ADI/702 Message Board Post: Mrs. Martha Alvira Fouts Smithers died at her home near Dunlap, Feb. 3, 1914 after a long and painful sickness. The funeral occurred from the M.E. Church at Galland’s Grove, Feb. 6, Rev. A.W. Harned officiating. Martha Alvira Fouts, daughter of Noel and Martha Fouts, was born July 11, 1859. September 13, 1881, she was united in marriage to Walter M. Smithers. To this union were born ten children, five boys and five girls. Nine of these, Gertrude, James, Noel, Otto, Sylvester, Myrtle, Maggie, Luie, and Ina, with the father, survive her. Deceased Floy A. Mrs. Smithers was devoted to her family to whom her death comes with crushing force.