This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YYB.2ACI/1595 Message Board Post: Columbus Daily Dispatch, Fri., Apr 1894, page 1, column 2 A Remarkable Career. WEST UNION, O., April 27.--Mrs. Polly Smith died at her home in the eastern part of this county aged 105 years. The history of her life and wanderings would fill volumes. She was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1789. Her husband was mortally wounded in the Mexican war. Mrs. Smith, learning of his death, started for the Mexican capital and offered her services as nurse and remained with the army until they were discharged. She returned home and devoted the rest of her life to farming and caring for her children. She had nine children, seventy-five grandchildren, 280 great grandchildren and 37 great great grandchildren.