Sarah Adeline (Whittington) Smith
April 19, 1914; Oregonian, p 7
"Widow of Pioneer Passes"
Enterprise, Or., April 18

   Mrs. Sarah Adeline Smith, widow of Anderson C. Smith, pioneer of Union and Wallowa Counties, died Wednesday at her home here.  She had been in good spirits the day before, working in the garden and trimming trees and tidying up the yard.  In the evening she had been caring for small chickens, and was laughing and chatting with her grandchildren.

   Shortly before 1 o'clock Wednesday morning she was stricken with a choking spell.  Mrs. Smith was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Whittington, of Franklin County, Ill., where she was born November 6, 1841.  She was married in Illinois in 1856.  Shortly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Smith moved to southeastern Kansas, where he enlisted in the Union Army, serving in the cavalry.

   The pioneer couple had ten children: Mrs. Mary Reavis, of Washougal, Wash.; Mrs. Rosa Barnhill, Sherwood, Or.; Mrs. Laura Hamilton, Imnaha; Mrs. Jane Martin, deceased; Mrs. Emma Shevlin, Cartersville, Mont.; Fred W. Smith, Enterprise; Mrs. Anna Reavis, Enterprise; J. Edward Smith, Cartersville, Mont.; Mrs. Viola Johnston, La Grande, and Walter A. Smith, of Prairie Creek.