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Jane McDowell Smith

Birth	:	22 Apr 1820 Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA
Death	:	11 Dec 1891 Highland County, Ohio, USA
Burial	:	Hillsboro Cemetery, Hillsboro, Highland County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.2140600, -83.6035400
Description	:	"The News-Herald" Hillsboro, Ohio, December 24, 1891, Page 5, Image 5 A Tribute From A Friend It was a beautiful December Sunday afternoon, calm and bright as a summer's day, when sorrowing relatives and friends laid Mrs. Jane McDowell Smith to rest in our quiet cemetery by the side of her beloved mother. There are few in the community, and they only strangers, who do not feel a personal loss in her death. A lovely, attractive woman of a noble, refined nature, she won all hearts by her unfailing courtesy of manner. Strong and loyal in her attachments, she... Read More	"The News-Herald" Hillsboro, Ohio, December 24, 1891, Page 5, Image 5 A Tribute From A Friend It was a beautiful December Sunday afternoon, calm and bright as a summer's day, when sorrowing relatives and friends laid Mrs. Jane McDowell Smith to rest in our quiet cemetery by the side of her beloved mother. There are few in the community, and they only strangers, who do not feel a personal loss in her death. A lovely, attractive woman of a noble, refined nature, she won all hearts by her unfailing courtesy of manner. Strong and loyal in her attachments, she was faithful in them to the end. One of her chief pleasures seemed to be to make others happy, for her life was filled with generous deeds and unostentatious charities. She dispensed her favors with rare and delicate tact so that the sense of obligation in the recipients of her kindness was lost in that of grateful love. Of a cheerful, hopeful temperament, she was a silver lining in the darkest cloud, and during the long months of her illness she never appealed to the sympathies of other, but on the contrary concealed as far as possible the knowledge of her sufferings from anxious hearts. Once, in sending a message to a distant friend, she said: "Tell her that I am a happy invalid, I have so much to be thankful for, surrounded as I am by my dear family, who are untiring in their efforts to make me comfortable," and then a smile of indescribable sweetness emphasized the truth of her touching, expressive words. Hers was no one-sided character, for whilst she possessed in an eminent degree that charity, which is the greatest of the Christian virtues, she was a woman of fine intellectual attachments. She loved the beautiful in nature and art. Standing among the highest in her classes at school she continued a student all her life, eager in the pursuit of knowledge. A ready, graceful writer, she found diversions in literary essays. Science in all its branches had charms for her, but geology and botany were her favorite studies. In her intelligent cultivation of flowers she was pleased to share her success with her friends, in whose eyes those precious gifts had a double value, coming as they did from the unselfish hand of one so dear to them. Her beautiful consistent life was a benediction to all who came within its happy influences and of no one can it be more truly said: "None knew her but to love her, None named her but to praise." "The Times-Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio, March 12, 2010 A look at Jane McDowell Smith JEAN WALLIS Highland Guidepost As the 19th century was drawing to a close, social clubs became an important part of life in the town of Hillsborough. The Friday Club had its beginning in the year 1890 when it was founded by Mrs. John McDowell (Marilou Stanley) Matthews, wife of a prominent banker in Hillsborough. This year the Friday Club will celebrate its 120th anniversary, becoming the oldest club in Highland County. The programs for the coming year has the ladies showcasing the lives of early club members. Jane McDowell, the second daughter of John Adair and Lucy Todd Starling McDowell, was born April 22, 1820, in Columbus. Her father was born Mercer County, Ky., in 1789, the son of Samuel and Anna Irvine McDowell. John became well educated and studied law under Alexander Marshall in Mason County, Ky. During the War of 1812 he served with General Samuel Hopkin and later under General Isaac Shelby (Kentucky's first governor) and was present at the battle of the Thames where the Great Shawnee Indian chief Tecumseh was killed. John, when very young, had married Lucy Todd Starling, a daughter of William and Susannah Lyne Starling, who were residents of Mercer County. After the close of the War, Major McDowell was persuaded by his brother-in-law Lucas Sullivant, who had married Lucy's sister, to remove to Columbus. (Sullivant being the founder or proprietor of Columbus.) In 1815, John, Lucy and daughter Anne moved to Columbus where John immediately entered upon a successful career as a lawyer. He was elected to the state Legislature in 1820 and 1821. John was appointed as Judge of the Circuit Court for the Columbus District, a position he held until his untimely death in 1823. John and Lucy were the parents of three children: Anne, born 1810, married John Winston Price of Hillsborough. Price, a lawyer by profession, had studied law under Chief Justice John Marshall. Winston was a descendant of the second William Randolph, of Turkey Island, also the gifted Winstons, from whom came Patrick Henry, the Prestons of South Carolina and General Joseph E. Johnston, of the Confederate army. Circa 1837 the Price family built the brick house on East Main Street first known as The Price, next the Pugsley and later the Duncanson House. In 1829, the widow Lucy married Judge Samuel Bell and along with children Anne, Jane and their brother William Starling, who was born in 1823, the year his father died, moved to Hillsborough to the house once located on present day Governor Trimble Place. Jane along with seven other girls were named as honorary graduates of the Oakland Female Seminary by Dr. Joseph Matthews. They were Jane, Emily Jones, Eliza Jane Trimble, Margaret Telfair, Jane Telfair and Helena, Serena and Elizabeth Woodrow. The latter married Hirman Campbell who was the editor of the Hillsboro Gazette, Highland County's first newspaper. Jane attended the school of Dr. Matthews until she was 15 years old, at which time she went to the famous school of Miss Edwards at New Haven, Conn., where she remained for two years. Returning to Hillsborough on Nov. 15, 1837, when she was 17 years of age she married John Armstrong Smith, son of John A. and Sally Wadman Smith. She and John were married for 54 years and lived in the handsome house located on South High Street across from present day Bell Opera House. They were the parents of three sons, James Wadman, Lyne Starling and Irvin McDowell Smith. Jane was an unusually cultivated woman and an ornament to society, not only at her own home, but at Washington where her husband spent four years as a member of Congress. Jane McDowell Smith died Dec. 11, 1891, and her husband followed some four months later. They are buried in the Hillsboro Cemetery.

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Jane McDowell Smith's memorial is located at: Hillsboro Cemetery, Hillsboro, Highland County, USA.
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Jane McDowell Smith death on 11 Dec 1891 in Highland County, Ohio, USA
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Latitude: 39.2140600
Longitude: -83.6035400

Family Members:

Parent

Lucy Todd Starling Bell

(1790 - 1870)

Spouse

John Armstrong Smith Famous memorial

(1814 - 1892)

Siblings

Anne McDowell Price

(1810 - 1895)

William Starling McDowell

(1823 - 1877)

Children

James Wadman Smith

(1840 - 1905)

Lyne Starling Smith

(1847 - 1899)

Irvin McDowell Smith

(1862 - 1931)

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Coordinate: 39.2140600, -83.6035400

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24. New Light Cemetery
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