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SMITH KENNEDY WERNTZ, JENNYS AKIN DELAHOYDE SLAYBAUGH

Posted By: Carlyss Noland (email)
Date: 4/10/2014 at 17:27:02

AUTHOR REV. ERNEST ALMON SMITH

Ernest Smith was born in Jefferson Township, Adair County, son of Louis Edwin (Ed) Smith (a country school teacher), who married Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, born in 1868, and lived his last years in the Good Samaritan Home in Fontanelle; died June 16, 1970, funeral in the Stuart Christian Church, and buried in South Oak Grove Cemetery, Stuart.

His four grandparents were: Thomas Kennedy, born 1836, of Scottish descent, and buried in South Oak Grove Cemetery, Stuart, who married Isabel Werntz of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction; and Grandfather Erastus Almon Smith, born in 18181, in New York, of English descent and buried in the Jefferson Center Cemetery, married in 1856 to Lucy Jennings, born in 1837.

Ernest received a Menlo High School diploma on May 23, 1913 signed by Supt. F. S. Hill and W. Willey, president of the school board.

Mr. Smith taught school and fought with the army in France during World War 1 where he kept an interesting diary. While attending Drake University in Des Moines, he served a pastorate at Louck's Grove (Wahtawah) and at Lewis, Iowa. He held a Master of Arts degree and had Bachelor of Divinity credits. Ernest was formally ordained and set about the ministry of the Gospel on April 12, 1942. His ordination documents were signed by Louis L. Akin, minister, by the order of Stuart’s Disciples of Christ Church; endorsed by Stuart, Monteith, Audubon and Cumberland churches. Mr. Walter A. Delahoyde was Notary Public and Alta LaVae Slaybaugh was Clerk. In 1945 when Louck’s Grove church began services again, he was invited as guest speaker.

In 1955 Ernest was named State Chaplain for the Iowa Department of the American Legion. He was a member of the Christian Church, Masonic Lodge, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and served on the Stuart City Council and the Public Library Board.

In the year 1955, while living on the family farm, he wrote the book, “Middle River Homestead”, which is a very good history reference of that area today.

Transcribed from Adair County History 1975
page 121


 

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