Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Nesbitt, Mary Jane September 1925
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Payette Independent, Payette, Idaho, September 10, 1925
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Sept 10, 1925

Old Pioneer Passes

Mrs. J. F. Nesbitt passed away at the ranch home near New Plymouth, Friday 
evening, September 4th at 5:45 p.m., following a short illness of five days.
Mary Jane Stuart was born February 3, 1857, at Canton, Illinois. After five 
years she moved with her parents to Humphreys, Missouri, where she made her 
home for eighteen years. While there she received her common school and normal 
training and followed the teaching profession for four years.
She came to Idaho in1880, staging from Kelton, Utah, to Falks Store where an 
uncle, William Stuart, lived. She continued her teaching and taught for a term 
of fourteen months in Jerusalem, near Horseshoe Bend, and the following year a 
term at Emmett.
August 20, 1882 she was united in marriage to John Franklin Nesbitt. They made 
their home at the present Nesbitt ranch, east of New Plymouth. To this union 
were born seven children: John W. of Goldberg, Oregon; George F. and Milton S. 
of New Plymouth; Oscar died in infancy; Elmer H. of Gross, Idaho; Iva M. and 
Clarence S. of New Plymouth.
Besides the above left to mourn her loss, are her husband, J. F. Nesbitt, a 
sister, Mrs. Lizzie Beyers, of Deeth, Nevada, and a brother, W. S. Stuart of 
New Plymouth.
The funeral services were held at the Episcopal Church in Payette conducted by 
the Reverend Thomas Ashworth. The Rebekahs had charge of the services at the 
grave.

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