San Luis Obispo  County Obituaries

MRS. LYDIA M. SMITH

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler, Sept. 2004.

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Source:  History of San Luis Obispo County, California, Oakland, Calif., 
Thompson & West, 1883, pp 381-385

MRS. LYDIA M. SMITH on December 20, 1880, wife of E. H. Smith, Esq., died at San 
Luis Obispo in the ninety-third year of her age.  Mrs. Smith for the last 
thirty-three years of her life was an invalid, and totally deprived of the power 
of walking.  During this time she crossed the plains in an ox-wagon, 
accompanying her husband and their four children, remaining during the winter of 
1852 in that region where the town of Gold Hill, Nevada, now stands.  In 1868 
she found a permanent home in San Luis Obispo.